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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 67

Creek Over Levee Driven From Home Hundreds Escape From Flood Cold Night Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 26 December 1933 · page 4

WITH a yellow flood rolling through 165 homes in 12 streets, more than 500 people, who had been driven from their…

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600 Melbourne Homes Under Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 December 1933 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- More than 600 families were forced to abandon their homes at Kensington to-night,…

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Homes Flooded. Melbourne Storm. Fifty Families Homeless. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 7

More than 50 families are homeless as a result of floods in the outer suburbs following yesterday's severe storm. The rain caused heavy damage to property,…

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Storm Damages Crops Tamworth

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 8

Considerable damage was done to crops by a heavy thunderstorm which passed over the Upper Hunter area. At Murrurundi lightning struck a…

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Gale at Heads Squalls And Showers Prevailed

The Sun · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 9

Squalls of 45 miles an hour are blowing at the Heads and the sea is rough. From sunset until midnight a fresh…

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Sailors Drown Spanish Coaster Strikes Reef in Storm (Transocean. By arrangement with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.) MADRID

The Sun · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 1

Six men were drowned when the small Spanish coastal steamer Juana Nieto, bound from Casablanca to La Linea, foundered during a heavy…

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Darling in Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 7

Recent rains in Queensland, together with the heavy falls which have occurred lately in the north-west part of New South Wales, have swollen the volume of water passing down the…

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Aerial Picture Of Floods

The Sun · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 1

Flood Water swept through Kensington (Vic.), rendering many families homeless. The stater in the locality of this aerial picture teat several feel deep in places…

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Clung to Fence for His Life Thrilling Incidents In The Victorian Floods Cloudburst Melbourne, Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 5

ALARM is felt for the security of a weir across the Latrobe River, following a cloudburst at Tyers, on the junction of the Tyers…

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Flood Sweeps 6 Dogs To Death

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- More than 8 feet of flood water to-day swept suddenly through the Lost Dogs' Home, and six dogs were…

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Keep Going in Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 14

Referring to a recent instance of a car being struck by lightning near Murwillumbah, the chief engineer of the N.R.M.A. states that such cases are…

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Storm Damage. Hail Three Feet Deep 24 Hours After Fall. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 7

Twenty-four hours after yesterday's storm, hail was still lying three feet deep in a farmer's paddock at the small town of Sheoak Log, although the temperature was 94 degrees…

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Diary of German Woman Tells of Nazi Horrors Husband And Son In Hiding Terrors Of Midnight Searches By Storm Troopers Children's Toys

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 7

THE diary of a German woman, one of thousands suffering almost unbelievable mental torture and humiliation because their outlook is…

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50 Persons Homeless. Floods in Melbourne Suburbs. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 7

It is estimated that the flood waters from the Moonee Ponds Creek caused damage amouuting to £ 30,000 this week. The creek overflowed its banks following torrential rain…

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Flood Left Homes Covered in Mud Melbourne, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 1

DAMAGE to property through the Christmas Day floods at Kensington is estimated at £30000…

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Bad Luck, George--the Paroo Was in Flood!

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 8

THE Paroo is flooded so George sits at home and mopes while a hundred happy young children from the far west…

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Cyclone Threats in Q'land Steamers Hit By Gale; One Out Of Coal Many Delayed Brisbane, Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 December 1933 · page 6

A CYCLONE threatens Queensland. At 9 a.m. to-day it was in longitude 151, rather intense, and seemed to be moving on a…

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Gale in Queensland. Shipping Delayed. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1933 · page 10

Some alarm was ciented in Bri[?]ne to-day by the official notification that at 9 a.m. a cyclone was located north-east of Mackay, and that it was travelling south. In…

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Cyclone in Far North River Craft Secured: Wharves Cleared

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 December 1933 · page 7

BRISBANE, Thursday.--An intense tropical cyclone threatens the coast, with its centre approximately north-east from Mackay, and…

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Byrd Expedition. Disaster Averted. Ship Drifting in Storm. (From Rear-admiral Byrd.—copyright.) at Sea, Dec. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1933 · page 9

After the first spectacular success, the expedition is now appai ently getting a taste of the conditions that for 160 years have defied explorations in this region…

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