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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1886

4 stories in South Coast's papers

Traveller. Chased by a Cyclone

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1886 · page 2

WITHIN a few rods of the opening of the gulch I heard a rear, as of oncoming wind. Nan cried out again to her horse, the animal lurched forward yet faster, and in a moment…

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A New Mexican Sand-storm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 2

The air was still as death, and there I was not n puff of wind nor a rag of cloud in the whole horizon. I observed, how ever, that the sky had undergone a curious…

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A Day of Storm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 October 1886 · page 2

'Twas a day of storm, for the giant Atlantic, rolling in pride, Drawn by the full moon, driven by the fierce wind, tide upon tide,…

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Terrific Storm in Brisbane

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 4

A SEVERE hailstorm commenced in the city on Tuesday evening last about 2.20 p.m., and lasted over half-an-hour. It extended in a track about three miles wide, and…

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