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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1829

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Tremendous Gale. (From the Plymouth Journal, August 14.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1829 · page 3

On Friday night a tremendous gale of wind, with heavy showers, commenced from the South-East, and afterwards shifting to the South and South-West, continued [?]…

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Hail and Thunder Storm

The Australian · Tuesday 13 January 1829 · page 3

"Since I was man, Such sheets of fire; such bursts of horrid thunder—Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard man's nature cannot…

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A Second Flood

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1829 · page 2

By some means, a strange report has got into circulation in Sydney, that in 1832 the world is to be overwhelmed with a second flood. The old women, and even some…

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Severe Gale and Snow Storm

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 11 June 1829 · page 4

QUEBEC, Nov. 21.—On Saturday afternoon the wind blew lightly from the east, and in the evening gradually increased with a fall of snow. About midnight the wind…

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