THUNDERCLAP
Crash Alarms City Folk EXODUS INTO QUEEN STREET Crash! A flash of lightning and thunderclap so close that they seemed to originate among the tops of the buildings in Lower Queen Street, startled city folk at. 2.10 this afternoon. The clap which was short and particularly heavy detonated like the discharge of a heavy gun, the lightning preceding it in a sudden, blinding sheet. Business people and shoppers crowded out of Queen Street premises expecting to witness the result of a traffic accident, fob the crash seemed to come from the street itself. Traffic and pedestrians stopped and people gazed skywards. Interest centred around a thin wisp of steam coming from the roof of the premises of a Queen Street drapery firm. It was thought that the building had been set on fire, but it proved to be merely steam issuing from the kitchen of teai-oom on the firm’s premises. The thunderclap, which is the most severe heard in Auckland for many years, was followed by blinding rain, accompanied by more thunder and lightning. As far as is known no damage was done.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 10
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184THUNDERCLAP Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 10
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