Electrical And Rain Storm Sweeps Sydney
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An intense electrical and rain storm swept Sydney to-night, disrupting telephones, wrecking gardens, and…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Flood Water 12 Miles Wide
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Water is 12 miles wide and several feet deep in many places between Hay and Balranald…
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NEW YORK, April 21. A.A.P.—The number of North Dakotans made homeless by floods rose yesterday to about 6600…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Floods 20 miles from the main Murrumbidgee River stream marooned 2200 sheep, valued at £10,000, on a property…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Flood-water, in some parts six feet deep, is spreading over thousands of acres near Carinda, north-west New…
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NEW YORK, April 25. A.A.P.— North Dakota and Minnesota, fighting the worst floods in 50 years, were blanketed by fresh falls of…
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The flood at Forces had killed rabbits by the thousand, but it had brought snakes by the hundred, the President of…
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Why do thunderstorms occur more frequently in summer than in winter? Normally, thunderstorms…
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Consideration is to be give to the lowering of the Pitnacree-road at McRae's Hollow, where almost continuous washaways have occurred during the past year…
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GRANDFOKS (North Dakota), April 27. A.A.P. — Fresh snows brought new danger yesterday to the flood zone in North Dakota…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—If funds made available to the New South Wales Government on a £ for £ basis to relieve distress arising from…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Floods and a blowfly attack in Western Queensland are estimated by authorities to have killed about one…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Because of floods, people in southwest Queensland had eaten pigweed, flour full of weevils and half-bad…
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A heavy storm which y[?]aeu 27 points swept Newcastle at noon after a brief spell of fine weather…
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WINNIPEG, Sun. (A.A.P.): Thousands of flood fighters toiled today to rebuild broken dykes along the banks of the Red Hirer. Hundreds of blocks of Winning (Canada's biggest western…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The State Weather Bureau at 6 o'clock to-night renewed a storm warning to shipping in the Tasman Sea, off the…
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NEW YORK. May 8. A.A.P.—Violent squalls lashed the northeastern coast yesterday and left a toll of at least 20 dread or missing…
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WINNIPEG, May 8. A.A.P.—The Army late last night warned residents of the low-lying suburbs of Winnipeg to flee at once as the…
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WINNIPEG. Mon. (A.A.P.).—Fifteen thousand men and women labored toddy to strengthen dykes along the flooded Red River, which imperils the city. Frogmen were flown in to clear blocked drainage…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Gale winds and driving rain are lashing the South Coast of New South Wales as a cyclone rages across the…
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