STORMY NIGHT
RAIN AND SNOW
CHRISTCHURCH SUBURBS FLOODED
RESIDENTS ALARMED
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Christchurch experienced the most boisterous night in its recent history, with a deluge of rain accompanied by ( thick flurries of snow. All creeks and I streams were in high flood, and iowlying areas in the Beckenham, St Martin's, Opawa, Wooir.ton, and Radley districts were inundated when the Heathcote River brokf its banks. In the twenty-four Lours between 9 sa.m. yesterday and 9 a.m. today there was a fall of 2.09 inches of rain and 'by far the greater part of this unusually heavy fall was recorded during the night. Many residents in the badly-affected areas had an" anxious night. The steady rise of the water was alarming, and as it crept up to doorsteps and over foundations in many parts, some people thought seriously .of vacating their homes. In Clarendon Terrace and Richardson Terrace, Woolston, the flooded Heathcote rose to nearly two feet deep ov^r the road. In country districts there was considerable flooding, the township ot Leeston being inundated to a depth of six inches. The Christchi »-ch-Akarcm highway is blocked by slips.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 9
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188STORMY NIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 9
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