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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

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Storms

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 1

Severe thunderstorms prevailed in the Ariah Park and Temora districts throughout the…

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Ganmain Bowls Attempt To Flood Green (By Matline)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 5

Last Sunday week 48 bowlers toed the mat to compete in fours for the E. J…

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Gale Rolls Plane Over

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A gale lifted an empty Tiger Moth plane into the air at [?]rith Aero Club last night…

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Heavy Rain in N.t

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 2

DARWIN Tuesday: Rain has been continually falling in the worst drought-affected areas of the Northern…

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Storm Scatters Christmas Shoppers Downpour Brought 55 Points In 12 Minutes

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 6

A violent thunderstorm, which broke over Gundagai at 5.15 p.m. on Christmas Eve, sent the huge crowd in Sheridan Street rushing for shelter, as 55 points of rain pelted down within the space of 12 minutes…

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Lightning causes many grass fires in freak storm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 1

The frequency with which lightning reaches the ground during a thunder storm was strikingly demonstrated in…

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Ships in Distress in Pacific One Wrecked; Two Out of Control in Gales

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday—The Swedish all tanker, S.S. Avanti, broke in two in a storm between Japan and Okinawa last…

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Worst flood in Memory threatened

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 1

ADELAIDE. Thursday: Reports reaching Alice Springs of the rains of earlier this week indicate that…

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Railway Flooded

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Friday: Floodwaters 5ft. deep are overflowing the railway line at Finke, 150 miles north of Oodnadatta,…

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Coronation songs flood market

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Coronation songs are flooding London's popular song publishers, but only one in a thousand can hope to be a "hit."…

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39 Die in Storms

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2

NEW YORK. Mon. (AAP): A new squall was gathering on the Pacific Northwest States yesterday, but a mass…

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Heard Island gale moves five huts

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Two hurricanes with gusts of wind well over 130 miles an hour blew down aerials and power…

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New Phone System to Provide Flood Warnings

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 4

The Menzies Government had approved the installation of radio telephone truck lines between a number of places in river valleys…

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Terrible storm hits Britain

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Heavy loss of life and property damage amounting to millions of pounds have followed devastating gales which have swept Britain and the Continent. A…

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Terrible Storm Hits Britain Heavy Loss Off Life

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 2

Heavy loss of life und property damage amounting to millions of pounds have followed devastating gales which have swept Britain and…

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Wild Storm at Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Several people were injured, car windscreens and house windows were shattered, and some…

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Sharp Storm Hits District

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 1

The climax to days of heat was reached on Friday when severe storms swept the district. A number of small…

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Severe Hail Storm at Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday: Fruit was stripped from trees and vegetable crops were cut to pieces by a severe hail storm…

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Europe's Worst Land, Sea Storms for 1600 Years

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.): Western Europe's worst land and sea storms for 1600 years have brought the known deathroll over the weekend to 597. People in England and the Continent today counted their dead as…

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125 pts. of rain in half an hour Thunderstorm Over Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 2

A low thunderstorm with vivid flashes of lightning, deafening peals of thunder, and torrential rain…

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