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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

2,104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 106

Cyclone havoc in Q'land [Lismore People Packing Again.]

The Sun · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 2

Three cyclones and a tornado in 72 hours have left a £1-million trail of shattered homes, shops, jetties and boats along 200…

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Families Prepare For Tweed Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 1

Hundreds of Tweed District residents last night prepared to leave their homes as the Tweed River…

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New Flood Peril in Europe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 3

LONDON, July 12 (A.A.P.). — Floods threatened vast new areas of Austria to-day as the…

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28 flood deaths in Germany

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

MUNICH, Mon.--The death toll from German floods rose today to 28, with 12 people…

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North Facing Flood Peril Special warning

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 1

The Weather Bureau last night issued a special flood warning to towns on the North Coast…

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Avalanches Add to Flood Run

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

VIENNA, Tues. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Avalanches roaring down the snow-capped alps yesterday brought new fears to Central Europe's disaster-stricken flood area. Snowslides in the…

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Grim flood threats in two states

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 2

Cyclonic storms and lashing gales have brought flood threats to towns from southern Queensland to northeastern N.S.W…

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Avalanches Add to Flood Ruin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

VIENNA, Tues. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Avalanches roaring down tho snow-capped alps yesterday brought new fears to Central Europe's disaster-stricken flood area. Snowslides in the…

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Grim flood threats in two states

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 2

Cyclonic storms and lashing gales have brought flood threats to towns from southern Queensland to northeastern N.S.W…

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Avalanches Add to Flood Ruin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 18

VIENNA, Tues. (A.P., B.U.P.).--Avalanches roaring down the snow-capped alps yesterday brought new fears to Central Europe's disaster-stricken flood area. Snowslides in the…

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Queensland Battered By Gales, Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Cyclonic winds and gales bringing treacherous floodwaters swept through south-eastern Queensland to-day. About 200 people are…

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Cyclone Threat in North People leave

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

Many people on the Far North Coast last night and early this morning moved to higher ground as the threat of serious…

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Rain, Gales Moving on N. COAST Evacuation Of Homes Begins

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

Hundreds of families in low-lying areas of Murwillumbah and Lismore left their homes last night as radio stations broadcast warnings of another cyclone moving south from Queensland…

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Vienna In Peril Of Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

LONDON, July 13 (A.A.P.).—The River Danube, which has been in flood for four days,…

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New Zealand Government flooding coal mines

Tribune · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 9

AUCKLAND.—The Government has stopped development work at the one State coal mine left in the Reefton district, Burke’s Creek, and intends to flood the bottom level of mine, containing about 300,000 tons of coal…

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FLOODS! In 3 river towns

The Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

For the seventh time in five years, including twice this year, NSW northern towns are flooded. Cost to date £17,000,000 HUNDREDS FLEEING…

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Flood prices up

The Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 2

North Coast floods today caused a sharp price rise in fruit and vegetables at the City…

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Huge Floods Force 70,000 From Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 5

VIENNA, Tues.--More than 70,000 people are homeless in flooded areas of Austria. The Danube reached…

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U.s. and Red Troops Fight Flood Peril

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 4

VIENNA, Wed. (B.U.P., A.P.).--Inside the Soviet territory at a village near Vienna, Russian and U.S. troops are working frantically side-by-side sandbagging a dam in danger of…

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Panic flight from floods Grafton Families Leaving

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 3

With floodwaters from the Clarence River rolling towards the town on a mile-wide front, panic- stricken people fled from Grafton…

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