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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1884

3 stories in South Coast's papers

Miscellaneous Hints in lightning-Storms

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1884 · page 1

COLONEL PARNELL, R.E., gives the following useful hints to avoid being struck by lighting. Carry as little metal of any kind on the person as possible. Shelter inside the…

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Great Floods in Queensland

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 3

Brisbane, Sunday.— A great flood has occurred at Mackay. The streets were flooded three feet with water, and many houses and [?] were several feet under water…

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"The Noachian Deluge."

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 13 September 1884 · page 2

IF Seripture is in accordance with science in the description of the Creation, as I tried to prove in a recent lecture is the case, can the Biblical account of the Delage…

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