South Awaits Flooding
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—South Coast residents are preparing for flooding following more heavy rain to-day and to-night. The rain has swollen South…
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Floods & storms, 1953
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 16
SUBURBAN and DISTRICT Complaint Over Flooding
Complaints that properties were flooded by the run-off from roads during Saturday's storm were received by Cardiff…
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SYDNEY: Motorists, travellers and tourist coach passengers are marooned in several South Coast districts by swollen rivers and impassable roads…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— A severe rain and hail storm in the Newport-Avalon area this afternoon flooded shops,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.â A six-year-old boy was swept to death in floodwaters at Pambula, on the South…
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SYDNEY: Torrential rain between Newcastle and Nowra last night and today caused dams to overflow, blocked roads, disrupted train services, isolated settlements and caused a serious flood threat in the Camden-Nepean area…
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Fierce storms lashed the New South Wales coast from Newcastle to Bega yesterday and on Wednesday night. The storms disorganised rail, road and air…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A young man used several lengths of garden hose to rescue three members of a family stranded on a floodbound bridge at Dee Why…
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The rain had caused many thousands of pounds worth of damage to roads in Lake Macquarie Shire, the Shire…
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Rain last night caused a rail washaway near Wyong stopping all main line traffic. The rain also cut the Pacific Highway at Gosford…
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With the Hunter River down to 18 feet at Maitland, floodwaters were subsiding quickly from thousands of acres of Lower Hunter farmlands today…
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Morpeth farmers are no longer able to forecast their flood position in relation to the height of the Hunter River…
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With the passing of an Enabling Act by the N. S. W. Government, the Hunter District Water Board will now take over drains within West Ward area which are three feet wide and over. At present the Public…
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Cessnock Council will ask the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust to allocate funds for flood mitigation work at Cessnock. Council last night, on a…
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WELLINGTON, May 17. A.A.P.—The worst southerly storm for many years lashed New Zealand at the week-end…
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HONGKONG, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Floods have inundated 221 districts and affected 2000 peasant…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A cyclonic gale which is battering the South Australian coast has already caused one death and damage running into thousands of pounds…
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The Boolaroo Urban Area Committee after an inspection of its area found it faced an expensive programme of…
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NEW YORK, May 20. A.A.P.—The coastal lowlands of Louisiana faced a new flood crisis from the Gulf of Mexico…
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NEW ORLEANS, Thurs. (A.A.P.) : Ten are dead and 25,000 homeless in record floods in Texas and Louisiana. The floods are the worst…
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