MUMBIL Storm Yields 60 Points
Mumbil received about 60 points of rain in a storm on Tuesday afternoon of last week, but people are still…
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Floods & storms, 1947
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Latest Telegrams Threat of Floods in All Northern N.S.W. River Areas. Servicemens League to Hold Referendum on Membership Rain and Floods. Sydney
Sydney — severe floods threaten all the northern N.S.W. river areas, where a few days ago there was nothing but dust, flies and dying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floodlighting for Tennis Club
Selecting the most modern type of flood lighting equipment available and spacing the lights 30 feet apart, Paramount Tennis Club hopes to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain Causes Washways Traffic Stopped on Mendooran Road
Scattered torrential rainfall throughout the Coonabarabran district over the week-end caused extensive damage to both…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spicer's Creek Electrical Storms
During the week-end we had two severe electrical storms, resulting in 145 points of rain. The once dry, barren hillsides…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →NEUREA Brief But Heavy Storm
The weather was hot and oppressive last week, and on Monday there was a sudden heavy rainstorm. The storm…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Severe Storms in District Cloud Burst at "Hazelwood" Yields 352 Points February Rainfall in Localities Exceeds That for 1946
Severe storms have been experience almost daily during the past week in various parts of the district, the worst being on Saturday afternoon when the countryside from Toorawgenah Road across to Deep Creek, on the Mendooran Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fashion's Mount. Thunderstorm. Water Supplies Replenished
A sharp thunderstorm passe over Fashion's Mount and Burrendong last Saturday evening, which was useful for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wellington Native Loses Life in Queensland Flood
A former resident and native of Wellington, Mr. John Gabriel Commins, was drowned on Saturday afternoon last in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Quit India" Storm in Britain
Britain's decision to [?] india not later than June, 1948, has produced a storm which already exceeds any in the long series associated with India. Since Mr Attlee's bombshell in the Commons recently, there has been a rising tide of indignation at the method…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Follows Wake of Devastating Storm Montreal
One of the winter's most intense storms swept Eastern Canada on Sunday and Monday and there were at least two deaths in the Montreal district. The storm deprived Quebec city of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Evacuation of Victims of Flood LAPAZ, (Bolivia)
Fourteen United States Bolivian, Chilean, and Peruvian rescue planes, continued to evacuate the victims of the flood-stricken Trindad…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Recent Storm Damage will Cost Council £1200 to £1500 Application Made for Government Assistance
The recent heavy rains experienced throughout the Coonabarabran Shire will cost the the Council between £1200 and £1500 for road repairs alone. An application is to be made to the State Government for a grant to assist with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heavy Rain
On Thursday last we had 150 points of rain here In 35 minutes. Water was running everywhere. Right in town the registration was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Spicer's Creek Severe Storms. Cars Held Up
Late on Thursday afternoon last over 1 1/2 inches of rain fell in an hour, which is the heaviest downfall experienced for…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Stuart Town Severe Storm. 135 Points of Rain in Hour
Mild seasonable weather has been our portion during the past week. On Thursday afternoon last a sharp storm…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →River Banks Breached, Flood Waters Inundate Village And Open Country LONDON
The flood situation in Britain was more critical last night as water continued to surge through breaches in river banks, rushing on to more villages and towns and swamping, new acres of open country…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Euchareena Creeks Flooded. 140 Points of Rain
Flooded creeks, dams and water lying everywhere were the after-effects of the storm last Thursday, 140 points…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Converted War Craft Lost in Storm LONDON, Friday
Five persons including the owner, William Cecil Lower, and his wife are feared to be missing from the 454 ton ship, the Faniagusta, a converted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Abatement Yet In England's Fenland Floods LONDON
Floods were still winning in the Fenland last night despite a daylong battle by over a thousand troops and prisoners of war. While army lorries brought up material to stop the…
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