Flooding in Gympie District
BRISBANE, Thursday: The Mary river was rising 4ft. an hour following nine inches of rain in 12 hours in the Miva district today…
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Floods & storms, 1948
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Cyclone Moving on to Q'land Coast
BRISBANE, Friday: A cyclone moving in from the Coral sea has bolstered the storm conditions in southeast Queensland and along the coast from Rockhampton to the New…
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A break in the weather early yesterday morning saved Lismore and district centres from serious flooding, following heavy to torrential rain throughout the Richmond district all day Saturday. The Richmond River at Lismore reached a maximum height of 24ft…
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Although the Tweed district received a torrential downpour of rain on Saturday, Muruwillumbah again missed a major flood by the narrowest of margins when the Tweed River at Murwillumbah rose 15 feet and half an Inch above normal and, after remaining at that height for a couple of hours,…
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BRISBANE, Sunday : A sudden turn in the cyclone brought off a one in four chance today, and saved parts of Queensland from flooding which might have rivalled the disastrous 1892 deluge. The change carried the centre…
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Tweed Shire Council's flood prevention wall along Alma Street in South Murwillumbah proved a boon on Saturday, and…
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The courageous action of a Murwillumbah man in diving to a depth of 12 feet into a raging current…
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The roofs of the two North Coast S.N. Co. wharf buildings were all that showed in Lismore yesterday when the flood waters from Leycester and Wilson's Creeks caused a peak height of 24ft. 6ins. in the Richmond River level…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--Floods in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales are subsiding, although cyclonic conditions are now moving southward and out to sea…
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Flood waters in Lismore yesterday reached their highest level since the 1945 flood. Top left: Business premises at the eastern end of…
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Heavy rains on Saturday, in which four inches fell in 12 hours, almost caused the flooding of Kyogle town area. When rain stopped at midnight, the Richmond River, which had risen to 50 feet, was only 10 feet below flood level. District centres estimated that six inches had fallen in some places. Almost…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Heavy flooding is occurring in most parts of the southern coastal and inland regions of New South Wales…
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It is now estimated there are 20,000 acres of farmlands inundated by water breaking from the river in the Mid-Richmond area. Although the river dropped steadily at Lismore…
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More than 7 inches of rain were recorded at Mudgeeraba in the weekend cyclone, and all low-lying areas were inundated…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: William Cassidy (60), station hand, was drowned in a flooded creek near Canowindra early today…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: All flood danger in New South Wales had passed by tonight. Most of the rain today was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Flood danger in all areas of the State has now passed and the cyclonic conditions, with torrential rain, are moving well out to sea…
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The narrow margin by which the city missed a major flood at the week-end led Lismore City Council, at its meeting, to probe the desirability of--Devising an overall flood prevention scheme…
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Flood levels in the Mid-Richmond district yesterday were reported at some centres to be only a few feet below the record of 1945. Top: Debris. banked against Coraki whart, after the level had dropped by…
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CORAKI, Tuesday.--A ten-foot break in the Bungawalbyn Creek levee bank last night poured huge volumes of water over a wide section of the Mid-Richmond district today. In some centres…
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