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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1879

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Late Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 January 1879 · page 2

IT had often occurred to me that I would like much to behold one of those terrific and imposing exhibitions of nature, sometimes reported, but rarely witnessed. I had…

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Cooma News Disastrous Flood

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, a terrific thunderstorm burst over Cooma, and the surrounding hills. The storm lasted a little over half-an-hour…

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Thunder Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last one of the those phenomena— thunder in mid-winter —occurred in Queanbeyan. The peals were very heavy, and accompanied by a downpour of…

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