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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1928

1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 94

Worst Storm Since Easter Gales Thunder, Hail, Rain, and Lightning City Shoppers Huddle Together Under All Available Shelter--Damage in Suburbs Wind Reached 54 Miles an Hour

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

Thunder crashes, vivid lightning, and hail an inch in diameter. Sydney yesterday experienced one of the worst thunderstorms since the gales last Easter. At did enormous damage…

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Storm Wrecks Roof Electric Light Off Junee

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

This afternoon a terrific windstorm, accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning and a little rain, passed over the town…

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Trail of the Storm Bridge Struck Traffic Delayed

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6

The opening span at Gladesville bridge was [?] during storm, and all efforts to close it failed. Traffic on the [?] Northern…

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When the Storm Vented Its Fury on Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1

VIVID FLASHES OF LIGHTNING, following each other in quick succession, were the prelude to the storm which deluged Sydney yesterday. Black clouds, driven before a wind of gale force, obliterated the sun and turned day into night. Ships on the Harbor tugged and strained at their moorings under the gale's fury. The photograph taken from Observatory Hill, shows Darling Harbor 'just when the angry clouds had gathered…

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Churches Wrecked Disastrous Cyclone W.A. Damage Buildings Unroofed Perth

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

A cyclone, by far the most severe ever experienced in the district. struck Coolgardie. Kalgoordie and Boulder…

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Australian Xl Sails Heavy Storm Sends Them on Their Way

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 37

It is to be hoped that the send-off ; accorded the Australian cricketers who left for New Zealand yesterday is not to be regarded as symbolical of the…

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Storm Takes Toll of Life at Rose Bay Three Are Drowned and Four Rescued Capsize in Cyclonic Gale Husband Sees Wife Drown While Waves Engulf Her Others on Point of Collapse

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1

THREE people were drowned and four were rescued on the point of collapse when a ship's dinghy capsized at Rose Bay in yesterday's terrific storm. The three victims are still missing. One of them, the…

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Storm's Havoc Three People Drowned Boat Overturns Many Windows Smashed by Hail

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

Vivid flashes of lightning, wind lashing heavy rain into fine mist, huge hailstones crashing through windows, and the harbor whipped up into small foaming rollers. Such was the intense nature of the terrific storm…

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Roofs Lifted West Wyalong Storm Water Six Feet Deep West Wyalong

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

Between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday West Wynlong experienced one of the most severe storms in its history. Terrific lightning and thunder were…

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3 Drowned Storm in City Wind at 50 M.p.h. Lightning Perils

Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6

THE storm, which broke over Sydney yesterday afternoon, and which caused, three deaths as well aa widespread damage,…

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Collars Wilted; Storm Brought Relief Handkerchiefs and Powder Puffs of No Avail Sydney Sweltered

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

Why Was the face of the toiler so dull? Why was his attitude limp? And why did his eyes outrival…

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Three People Meet Disaster on Harbor Ship's Boat Overturns in Rose Bay During Storm Four Are Rescued

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 2

Four hundred yards from one of the most thickly-populated areas on the harbor foreshores three people are believed to have lost…

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Cloud Burst and Flood Binya

Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6

[?] accompanied by much lighting, regard in the district yesterday.The rain varled considerably.More than 60 points fellat Girt[?]th,…

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Terrific Toll Cyclone in W.A. Towns Writhed Few Seconds Then Ruin Perth

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 2

The cyclone which swept through the three goldfields towns--Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, and Boulder City--early…

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War on Reds Fierce A.lp. Storm "David's" Sling Shot "Go Carefully," Says Charlton: Election Fear

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 5

He is only a little man, little more than 5ft 6in high, but he threw the A.L.P. Metropolitan Conference into violent storm yesterday evening. He was the man, who in that avowed anti-red gathering had…

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Set Sail for Home Sailing Home Reaches Port Amid a Storm of Hoots Surprise in C. F. Orr Stakes Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 3

THE C. F. Orr Stakes, run at Williamstown to-day, the second weight-for-age race of the season, resulted in the unexpected. It was won by Sailing Home, who only the week before had been beaten out of a place in the Epsom…

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Fierce Gales. Sweep Europe. Many Fatalities. LONDON, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 11

[?] gales have swept over the greater part of Europe. In Great Britain eleven people have been killed, and many injured by the tempest…

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Gale's Toll 5 Killed in Crashes Ship Founders London

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 1

In one of the fiercest gales ever experienced in Britain, the steamship Taormina, of Oslo, bound for Lisbon with 2000 tons of coal, foundered off Padston, Cornwall…

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Good Rain at the Hill Storms in Queensland Broken HILL,Sunday

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 8

Indication are that the water supply position will be relieved following heavy rain which fell to-day. At 6 o'clock to-night one inch had fallen…

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The Storm. In Western Australia. Mines Idle. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 11

A survey of the area which was swept by a cyclone yesterday afternoon reveals widespread ruin at Kalgoorlie, Boulder, and Coolgardie. Buildings in the three towns suffered…

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