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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 61

Trains Stranded As Cyclone Lashes W.a

The Sun · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

PERTH, Monday.--Cyclonic rain sweeping in from the Indian Ocean has flooded vast a reals of Western Australia, the trans-continental…

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Tap Overflow Floods Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

A wash basin tap left running by an employee on Saturday morning caused considerable damage in Grace Bros. main George St. West building at the weekend…

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Flooding of Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 5

A wash basin tap left running by an employee on Saturday morning caused considerable damage in…

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Flooding of Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 5

A wash basin tap left running by an employee on Saturday morning caused considerable damage in…

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Cyclone Moving To N.S.W. Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 9

The edge of a cyclone which caused heavy damage in Western Australia at the weekend may reach the far south coast of New South Wales in the next 48 hours…

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Thaw Begins In England: Gale Warnings Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Feb. 23.—After two days of blizzards, a slow thaw began in London and south-east England yesterday…

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Running Tap Floods Store

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

A tap left turned on at Grace Brothers' furniture store, Broadway, during the week-end caused damage…

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Flood Cuts Off Families, Train

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 2

RAILWAY tracks at Lancaster (Tennessee) on February 15 were covered in parts by flood water four, to five feet…

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Cyclone Co. Sales Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 14

Volume of sales of Cyclone Company of Australia. Ltd., for the half-year to December 31 showed improvement on that…

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Loss by Storm

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 7

Mr. P. McCann, of Castlereagh, has been at heavy loss by the flood in the Nepean. All the crops have been under water and about 4000 cases of fruit…

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Townsmen Try to Swim Flood for Food

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 9

KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--Three men unsuccessfully tried to cross a mile-wide lake of floodwater to get badly needed food supplies from Kalgoorlie last night…

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Flood Traps Auto

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 5

CAR caught by floods near the town of Logan, West Virginia. Melting snow turned this creek…

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Flood Traps Auto

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 5

CAR caught by floods near the town of Logan, West Virginia. Melting snow turned this creek…

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Flood Traps Auto

Daily Mirror · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 5

CAR caught by floods near the town of Logan, West Virginia. Melting snow turned this creek…

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Storms Cause Deaths, Havoc

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 1

DALLAS (Texas), Saturday. --Tornadoes and floods in central Texas have caused at least three deaths and damage…

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Gale hits warships LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 29 February 1948 · page 3

STORMS have damaged the cruiser Nigeria and the sloop Snipe in the Falklands, says an…

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Heavy Rain in Interior

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sunday.— Big areas of Central Australia are flooded as a result of exceptionally heavy rain…

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Heavy Rains Flood Inland Australia Best Season For 10 Years

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 7

Heavy rains have flooded large areas of Central Australia. Pastoralists said last night that a huge tract of country would have its best season…

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Gale Drives Ketch Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 9

A 54-mile-an-hour gale yesterday drove ashore a 35ft. ketch at St. Kilda Beach, Melbourne…

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Havoc at N.T. SETTLEMENT Cyclone Toll

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 4

DARWIN, Tuesday.—A cyclone which lashed the Gulf of Carpentaria last week almost destroyed the tiny settlement of…

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