A CLOUDBURST.

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1927, Page 5

A CLOUDBURST.

— AT AUCKLAND. Last Night. AUCKLAND, February 15. riiero was an electrical disturbance m tiie city and the suburbs to-night. It was accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain, the streets being flooded. Something in the nature of a cloudburst was experienced at Fast Tamaki It was preceded by a waterspout which wrecked a small outbuilding of a house and <li<l other minor damage. LIGHTNING STRIKES A TRAM. <ON DUCTOR’S CLOSE CALL. AUCKLAND, February 15. A tram-car was struck by lightning • luring the height of the thunderstorm at Epsom to-TTight. The lightning travelled by the overhead wire down th" pole of the car to the engine. A blind ing flash followed. The motorman, Wil liam Tee, reeled from the shock. He said afterwards 'hat it felt as if someone had dealt him a heavy blow on the neck. Tee displayed great promptness slopping the car, in which no passen ers were travelling at the time. The hair at the back of Tee’s head was singed, and he was suffering somewhat from shock. The car suffered no structural damage but #th;» lights, fused, and the engine was partly disabled.