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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 109

Floods Block Highway

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 5

A tourist coach and other vehicles were stranded by floodwaters on the Princes Highway…

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Suburbs Flooded by Deluge Big-Seas Warning To Ships

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 1

Gripped in abnormally low temperatures, Sydney has been deluged with more than two inches off driving rain that has…

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Suburban Flooding Follows Deluge 'Big Seas' Warning To Shipping

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 2

Gripped in abnormally low temperatures, Sydney has been deluged with more than two flitches of driving rain that has…

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Suburban Flooding Follows Deluge 'Big Seas' Warning To Shipping

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 2

Gripped in a cold snap, Sydney and the central seaboard were lashed by driving rain today, more than two inches falling in the city…

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Suburban Flooding Follows Deluge 'Big Seas'Warning To Shipping

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 2

Gripped in a cold snap, Sydney and the central seaboard were lashed by driving rain today, more than two inches falling in the city…

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Suburban Flooding Follows Deluge 'Big Seas'Warning To Shipping

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 2

Gripped in abnormally low temperatures, Sydney has been deluged with more than two inches of driving rain that has…

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Big Flood Threat Deluge In City, Rise In Rivers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 1

Rivers and streams on the South Coast are rising alarmingly following torrential rain and Mustering winds that have lashed the…

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Freighter Runs on Reef in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 7

The freighter Aeon ran on to rocks in Port Kembla harbor last night. Early today the harbormaster (Captain…

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Man-made Floods to Protect Western Europe The Dutch detence-by-flood idea may he extended to other places

The World's News · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 31

A HUGE military inundation project to flood Holland, parts of north-western Germany and Denmark is under consideration by the…

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Floods threaten training

The Sun · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 10

Flood conditions in the Nepean River at Penrith may disrupt training of five King's Cup crews next week. The Nepean is expected to be in flood by…

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Trawler Rescues 27 From Floods South Coast peril

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 1

The Weather Bureau last night warned of floodings in South Coast…

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Escape Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 3

Victims of last week's disastrous floods on the Missouri River wait forlornly in line at a relief…

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Big Flood Threat Delugo In City, Rise In Rivers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 1

Rivers and streams on the South Coast are rising alarmingly following torrential rain and blustering winds that have lashed the…

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Escape Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 3

Victims of last week's disastrous floods on the Missouri River wait forlornly in line at a relief…

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Suburban Floods in Delude Rain Lashes Coastline: Heavy Seas

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 1

Gripped in abnormally low temperatures, Sydey has been deluged with more than two inches of driving rain that has…

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Two inches in 24 hours Coast battered by gales, rain

The Sun · Sunday 27 April 1952 · page 1

SCATTERED showers and lighter winds are expected along the NSW coast today, after a battering by rain and gale yesterday. A Weather Bureau official…

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Sydney Lashed by Rain, Gales; Sport Washed Out, Crops Ruined

Truth · Sunday 27 April 1952 · page 1

Heavy rain and icy cold winds caused a postponement of many sporting fixtures in Sydney yesterday. The rain washed out a number of families and crops and gardens were damaged. The maximum tem.-…

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World Spotlight Storm On The Veldt From Our Johannesburg Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 27 April 1952 · page 6

SOUTH AFRICA'S constitutional crisis took another desperate, leap forward on Wednesday when the suave, gentlemanly Minister for the Interior, Theophilus Ebenhaezer Donges, at last revealed…

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Sydney Reels Under Icy Gale And Rain Torrent Heavy Damage in Wide Areas

Truth · Sunday 27 April 1952 · page 5

Torrential rain, accompanied by icy, gale-force winds, yesterday caused the cancellation of most Sydney sporting fixtures, including Randwick races,…

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Rain Washes Out Nearly All Sport Heavy Falls Threaten S. Coast Flooding Crops Ruined And Some Roads Blocked

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 27 April 1952 · page 1

Serious floods threaten the South Coast, where more than two inches of rain fell yesterday. Many sporting fixtures in Sydney,…

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