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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Drama at Sea Rescued in Storm Survivors of Torpedoed Vessel London, Sunday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

Torpedoed by a U-boat while saving survivors from a liner, a Norwegian merchantman began to sink rapidly by the bow, but suddenly…

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Torrential Rain and Floods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 2

Not since 1925 has the district been deluged by such rains as during the past week. From last Friday night there has not been a let-up, over…

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Toll of the Floods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 June 1943 · page 2

In addition to severe road damage in the district consequent upon the recent flood rains, severe losses have been occasioned in other directions,…

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Flood Damage to Boads in Tallaganda Shire. Estimated at £2263

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1943 · page 1

At last meeting of Tallaganda Shire Council the engineer, Mr. T. L. Thompson, furnished the following estimates of the amounts he considered…

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Sydney’s Worst Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 2

The heaviest rain-storm in Sydney’s history stopped transport services, dislocated part of the telephone system, and caused…

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U.s. Carrier After a Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 October 1943 · page 3

Snow covers the flight deck of a United States Navy aircraft carrier, as well as its Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger torpedo planes, after the vessel ran into a snowstorm while on duty in the North Atlantic…

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Heavy Flood Damage in North

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 November 1943 · page 3

More than £100,000 worth of damage to stock and property has resulted from disastrous floods In North Coastal areas, which this week were…

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Heavy Rain

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 2

After several days' warm, windy weather, the first real touch bf summer we have had since spring, a change developed on Saturday,…

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Local and General Severe Electrical Storm

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 2

A heavy electrical storm on Friday gave us 77 points of rain. In the afternoon residents of the town were startled by two deafening claps of…

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