HEAVY STORM DAMAGE

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 27 January 1933, Page 5

HEAVY STORM DAMAGE

Toll in New South Wales SHOPS AND HOMES FLOODED Main Highway Bridges Down PEOPLE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. CATTLE WOUNDED BY HAG-. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.10 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, Jan. 27. A further downpour drencho 1 tl.f: metropolitan area last night. .More rain and thunderstorms are expected oday. The temperature yesterday reached 04.4 degrees and the humidity was 86 at eight o’clock in the evening. Storms continue to cause heavy damage in parts of the country. Sixteen inches of rain fell at Eden- on the' south coast in as many hours during a violent storm. Business premises and homes wereflooded over many square miles and the waters rushed feet deep over the roads. Several briugbs were swept away on the Prince’s highway, the main' road to Victoria, and traffic was cut off. The post office at Hethercote was flooded and the postmaster and his family were forced to race for safety." An extraordinary storm at Dornge was accompanied by torrential rain, deafening thunder and nerve-racking lightning. . Three people were taken to. 'Hospital paralysed after being -struck by lightning. Crops were washed out. of trie ground and the hail penetrated the. hides of cattle, leaving them bleeding. Many houses and sheds were unroofed.

DELUGE AT MELBOURNE. SUBURBAN STREETS INUNDATED. Received 11.30* a.m. to-day. MELBOURNE, Jan. 27. A rainstorm burst over the city laxc yesterday. The streets were flooded to a depth of two feet in low-lying parts and lightning dislocated the -electric systems in half-a-do-zcn of the suburban areas.

QUEENSLAND RIVERS RISING,

SHEEP REMOVED TO SAFETY.

Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Jan. 27.. Thv iVard a.nd Langlo rivers are rising rapidly and sheep have been removed from all river frontages in the I'o-w-lying country. Rain commenced last night.