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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

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Electrical Storm in Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 7

High winds accompanied a violent electrical storm that swept over the city and suburbs early to-day. Despite the violence of the storm over…

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Storms in U.S.A. Extensive Damage in California 100 Die in Cold Wave San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 1

Cities are isolated, shipping is endangered, bridges and railroads have been washed out, and numerous houses destroyed and communications severed…

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Floods in Britain Snowfalls in Many Areas London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 1

During a severe storm which set in yesterday, over Scotland and Ireland, and which extended last night to nearly all parts of England, there were…

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Storms in U.S.A. 2000 People Homeless San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 4

The storms abated after causing three deaths and £200,000 worth of property damage. The rivers are still rising. It is estimated that 2000…

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Cyclonic Storm Damage in the North Buildings and Farms Suffer GRAFTON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 6

Considerable damage was caused yesterday by a cyclonic storm in the Swan Creek district. At the public school two brick chimneys crashed…

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Ten Dead Flood Loss in California San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 2

Disastrous floods, sweeping down from the Sierras after torrential rains, have caused at least 10 deaths in north and central California, and have…

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Severe Dust Storm

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 2

One of the worst duststorms expensed in the Coolamon district for many years, occurred on Friday night last, when dence clouds of and dust…

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Flood-Proof Fence Solves a Recurring Probles

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 7

Not least among the items at loss resulting from the floods which periodically lay waste many low-lying rural districts is that represented by…

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3000 in Danger Racing Gales Off Korean Coast Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 5

Gales raging in the south-east of Korea swept away 600 fishing boats with crews totalling 300, Rescue ships are rushing to the scene, but heavy…

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Electrical Storm in Victoria Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1937 · page 4

A severe thunderstorm struck townships in the Dandenong Ranges about 1.30 o'clock this morning, and plunged them into darkness while parties…

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Storm Note

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 7

Two farmers met in town a few days after a cyclone hit the countryside. "Yes, it did a lot of queer tricks out our way," declared one reflectively…

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Damaged Airliner Being Repaired at Wagga 'Drome Relief 'Plane Just Misses Big Storm

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 4

The Australian National Airways liner Lepena, which was damaged while landing at the Wagga aerodrome on Wednesday, is now being partly…

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