CLIMATIC EXTREMES
Received Monday, 8.25 p.m. SYDNEY, July 22. The worst blizzard since 1939, ragrog • in the high country about Kosciustto, :shows no signs of ahating. Yesteriay ; the wind reached a velocity of 90 miies an hour. I A tractor which arrived at the clialet 'took three days to make the journey | which normally takes seven hours. ' Snow hanked up ahout the chalet and ^ hotel to a depth of 40 feet. Today it was possible to ski off the chalet roof. Parties of skiers are snowed in at alpine huts since before the weekend. Cooma and Adaminaby which were • isolated earlier in the month, are again cut off by twelve-foot drifts covering the road. Heavy stock losses are expected. Meanwhile Brisbane is in the grip of the worst grass fire epidemic in ten yfears, following a prolonged drought.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1946, Page 5
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