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Floods & storms, 1911

32 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

Terrible Gale

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 6

A severe westerly gale swept over certain parts of Austria last month. There were 100 accidents, two of them fatal, in Vienna alone. Meteorological returns…

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Floods in New Zealand

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 2

Heavy rain has caused floods in the Napier and Gisborne rivers, N.Z., which rose rapidly. The deluge has caused great anxiety in Gisborne since…

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Flood Rains in Victotia

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1911 · page 2

Heavy rains are reported from the Trafalgar district, Victoria. All the creeks are bankers. Hundreds of tons of unions and many crops have been…

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In the Storm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 June 1911 · page 4

The French mail steamer Pacifique, which recently grounded at Port Vila, New Hebrides, has arrived in Sydney. The vessel was convoyed by the…

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Damage by Flood

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 June 1911 · page 4

The recent heavy rains in Victoria caused a serious [?] on the Kooweerup Swamp. The visitation was one of the most severe ever experienced in…

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Gales and Snow

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 June 1911 · page 4

The weather is unusually cold, and heavy falls of snow have occurred on the tablelands. A furious south-westerly storm raged…

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A Rough Trip. the Merimbula in the Gale

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 June 1911 · page 4

Passengers by the Merimbula, on her last run down the coast, had a bad time of it, and were not sorry when they touched terra firma once…

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Severe Thunderstorm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 August 1911 · page 2

An extraordinary hailstorm has been experienced in London. Hailstones cut through umbrellas. The thermometer dropped 22 degrees in 25…

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"A Debasing Flood of Borrowed Gold."

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 4

The fruits of their laches, the "Review" considers, are found in the increasing sycophancy of the colonial attitude towards much that is least…

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Flooding a Bank

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 3

Like the Bank of England, the Bank of France is now guarded every night by soldiers, who do sentry duty outside the building, a watch being…

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Big Roof Tank Bursts. House Flooded with Water

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1911 · page 6

With a roar that sounded like the bursting of a reservoir dam (wired the "Inter-Ocean" correspondent on July 14) the huge tank on the roof of the…

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High Temperatures. a Sharp Storm

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 4

The beat in Nowra this week has been excessive, the most for this time of year since 1896. The temperature on Wednesday was 93 deg., and on…

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