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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1877

2 stories in South Coast's papers

Floods in the Hawkesbury

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1877 · page 2

ON Saturday evening the rain fell in torrents, and all that night it rained heavily and by daylight on Sunday morning there was upwards of twenty feet of water over the both the…

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Sketcher. A. Mississippi Flood

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1877 · page 1

THE next few months showed me stranger things. On the same day that we held the conversation above narrated, we met a great rise coming down the river. The whole vast…

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