STORM IN BRISBANE
HALF CITY PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS BRISBANE, Dec. 8. Steel towers for floodlighting the Rugby League ground at Rockhampton were bent by gusts during a wind storm which reached 70 miles an hour. Half the town spent last night in darkness because of electricity failures caused when flying roofing iron and uprooted trees carried away power lines. Many small craft in the Fitzroy River dragged their anchors half a mile during the storm. At nearby Langley many roofs were torn away. So severe was the wind that grass ripped from the ground was left festooned among the telephone wires. In three-quarters of an hour 141 points of rain fell. In a narrow strip of south-eastern Queensland hail the size of cricket balls cut a swathe across country. Thundery weather and freak storms are reported over wide 1 areas of the eastern States. Sydney had its fifth consecutive wet week-end, with thunderstorms and showers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5
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155STORM IN BRISBANE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5
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