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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 68

Severe Storms Likely Today

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 1

Severe thunderstorms in Sydney are forecast for today. "We can expect a most unpleasant week-end, said the State Meteorologist…

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Cyclone Strikes Brickworks. Sheds Demolished. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 11

A cyclonic disturbance about 60 yards wide struck brickworks owned by Mr. Alfred Tod, of Gawler River, Willaston, at 3 p.m. to-day, and wrecked an acre…

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High Winds Came With Storm

The Sun · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 3

HIGH winds accompanied a violent electrical storm that swept over the city and suburbs early…

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Gale Hits Boats, Chaos On Harbor

The Sun · Sunday 12 December 1937 · page 2

Reaching at times a velocity of 44 miles an hour, a westerly wind swept across Sydney Harbor yesterday, spreading chaos…

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SAILING Two Craft Capsized, But Gale And Big Sea Had No Terror For Girls

The Sun · Sunday 12 December 1937 · page 7

Exciting incidents marked the annual Queen of the Harbor 18-footers' sailing race yesterday. In the 40 miles an hour westerly gale, two boats capsized and the mast of another snapped. The gale and choppy seas,…

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Gale Sweeps Yachts Off Harbor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 17

A howling westerly gale on Saturday nearly blew the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's races off the Harbor…

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Terrific Storm at Grafton Woman's Terrifying Experience GRAFTON

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 5

HOUSES, a store, and other places were unroofed, street trees blown down, Jacaranda Avenue badly damaged, telephone telegraph. and…

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Storm Havoc Clarence Area. River Steamer Sinks. Week-end Weather Mixture

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 10

A fierce storm swept across a section of the lower Clarence River on Saturday afternoon, and did extensive damage over an area extending from…

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Vessels Sink, Strand Gale Takes Lives Off Britain 20,000-TON, £2,000,000 American Liner Pounding Reef London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 3

TWO ships sank in a gale yesterday with the loss of at least eight lives. The Belfast coaster Annagher foundered, off the Irish coast. Five…

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Heavy Floods in Tasmania Families Forced to Vacate Homes Launceston

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 December 1937 · page 5

WHEN a cloud burst over Mount Arthur in the early hours of yesterday morning, three creeks which converged at Lilydale, flooded and…

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U.S. Floods. Two Thousand Homeless. Huge Storm Damage. San Francisco, Dec. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 12

The disastrous storms which swept the Pacific coast of the United States at the week-end have abated after having caused three deaths and millions of…

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Storms in Britain. (From Our Special Representative.) London, December 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 12

Half Britain is snowbound, and blizzards are lashing the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland, holding up shipping, and severing communications by road, telephone, and…

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A Woman Worries Rumania Lupescu Cause of Election Storm Bukarest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 3

MADAME LUPESCU is the storm centre of the Rumanian general elections this month…

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Fierce Storm on Clarence Grafton

The Sun · Wednesday 15 December 1937 · page 2

Almost every home in the track of a violent storm in the Swan Creek district, near Grafton, suffered extensive damage…

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Injured by Lightning. Two Men Struck. Fierce Storms in North. Sultry Sydney Weather

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 December 1937 · page 18

Two men yesterday were struck by lightning, one seriously, in the third severe storm experienced by the Grafton district in less than a week…

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5000 Homeless in U.s. Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 December 1937 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO. Tuesday.--Ten are dead and 5000 are homeless as the result of disastrous floods which have swept down from the Sierras following…

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Brisbane Storm

Referee · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 11

THE first appearance in Brisbane of Johnny Foster, ex-welterweight champion of Canada, against Queensland middleweight champion, Jim…

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Storms in North. Grafton Swept. Boy Killed in Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 11

Severe electrical stoims again occuricd at several places on the North Coast yesterday, including Grafton, where buildings were…

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Thunderstorm

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 1

An exceptionally heavy storm passed over the district on Wednesday, 8th inst. In a few minutes 78 points of rain fell. This caused some damage…

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"Flood Danger" Complaint to Council Engineer's View

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 2

That by removing soil from the river bank at Moorebank, Liverpool Council was menacing their properties with flood danger was stated by a number of…

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