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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1902

19 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Cyclone at Narrabri

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 7 January 1902 · page 3
Also in The Mittagong Express

A calamity overtook Narrabri on Saturday evening and was attended with loss of life and several casualties. For about an hour previously,…

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A Terrific Cyclone

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 January 1902 · page 5

Narrabri, Saturday.—One of the most severe cyclones—almost equal to that of last year, when it was estimated that £4000 worth of damage was done…

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A Violent Storm

The Mittagong Express · Friday 17 January 1902 · page 1

Boisterous weather prevailed at Molong on Sunday, and at night the thunder and lightning surpassed anything ever experienced. For several…

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Adrift in a Gale.—320 Miles in Five Hours

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 8 February 1902 · page 3

A sensational baloon tragedy occurredon Fell. 2 in Belgium in connection with German military aeronautic experiments; Captain Sigsfield and Dr. Lincke, both…

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On the North Coast. When the Floods Come

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 26 July 1902 · page 4

Isn't it natural (exclaims the Junee Southern Cross), when one has a surfeit of had things to want good ones, and in default of being able to get what one wants to gaze…

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Gale on the African Coast. Great Loss of Life

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 1

London, Tuesday.—It is now definitely known that great loss of life attended the shipping disasters during the gale in Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth,…

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Disastrous Cyclone in Sicily

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 October 1902 · page 6

London, Saturday.—A cyclone, accompanied by torrents of rain, has raged for 24 hours in the Sicilian province of Catauia, near the foot of…

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Storm in Sydney

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

An exceedingly heavy storm was experienced in Sydney on Saturday and Sunday, no less a quantity than 6 inches falling within the space of 15…

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Sunday's Storm

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 21 October 1902 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

The heaviest fall of rain that has occurred in the district for a number of years was experienced on Sunday. The weather was…

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Sunday's Storm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 October 1902 · page 2

At about 8.30 on Sunday morning the rain commenced to descend steadily in Moss Vale, but in a very short time it began to rain heavily; the lightning…

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Sunday's Thunderstorm

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 22 October 1902 · page 4

The phenomenally heavy thunderstorms which occurred throughout this district, and extended over a small area of the southern highlands, remind residents of the storms we here in the habit of…

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Sunday's Storm

Robertson Advocate · Friday 24 October 1902 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

Farther particulars of Sunday's storm show that it raged with great violence in the southern portion of the district, Bundanoon participated…

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Last Sunday’s Storm. Remarkable Rainfalls

The Mittagong Argus · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 2

One of the most violent storms experienced in this district occurred last Sunday, when continuous rain fell throughout the day. The storm…

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Terrific Thunderstorm

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 29 November 1902 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon last a most terrific thunderstorm passed. over Bowral shortly before six o'clock. The heavy rain was also accompanied by hail, and…

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Floods

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 December 1902 · page 2

Floods clearly are of two kinds, the inevitable and the preventible. The flood in Argyle-street on Sunday last was most unmistakably of the latter…

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