CYCLONE AND WATERSPOUT
VISITS GREYMOUTH. LEAVING A TRAIL OP DAMAGE. CAUSES ALARM AMONG RESIDENTS. ~ J " Per Press Aasn. » .t JET”* i GREYMOUTH, Last Night. * Greymouth was this evening visited at about 7.30 by a cyclone and a wa- j terspout, which came in from the sea, directly eastwards, with a width of from fonr to five chains. After passing over Blaketown and the lagoon, * the cyclone crosed Cowper, High and Shakespeare streets, leaving in its wake a trail of damage. , In Blaketown, five houses, together J with the outhouses, were seriously : damaged, the roofs being blown off. » In each instance, quite a number of • chimneys were damaged. j The waterspout was observed by ■ many people as it crossed the lagoon. { The wind, -on reaching Cowper J street, lifted the roof of a new bungalow and carried it across the town in- j to the bills to the eastward. Four . or five other houses between Cowper j street and the hills had their roofs . more or less lifted while the electric J and telegraphic wires were dislodged j along the track of the cyclone. The whole electrical current of the . town momentarily was interrupted. | There was great alarm caused among i the residents within a certain dis- j tance of the storm's course, as it was j accompanied by a loud, roaring and a j stream of floating sheets of iron, timber and other debris. % The waterspout does not appear to j have wrought any destruction, but it presented an awesome spectacle as it j was seen arising out of the ocean. , The weather has been wet and bois- j terous for a long time past, but the t storm came without any warning. The scene of destruction attracted people thither in large numbers. It is fortunate that the cyclone's track was not a little further to the j northward, as it would, in that case, have passed over a much larger num- j * ber of Structures. At the time of the earthquakes, a cyclone took a similar course. •No estimate of the damage is yet possible, but it is not expected .to prove very considerable. The continued adverse weather has prevented shipping movements here.
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Inangahua Times, 7 December 1929, Page 3
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