SATURDAY'S THUNDERSTORM
Opb Waiuku correspondent writes :—On Saturday afternoon last we experienced the most) severe weather felt here for many years past, if not the worst ever felt. Early in the afternoon it commenced to thunder, and the lightning was fearful, and shortly after the rain came down in torrents. The thunder and lightning were so bad that it frightened horses, cattle, children, and almost everything else. There was a tree set on fire down the Awaroa by the lightning, and eeveral others in the district were fchattered by its force. Strange to say that during the storm hail and great pieces of ice fell in some parts nearly a foot deep. The oldest settlers say they have never seen anything to equal it. Our Pukekohe East correspondent writes : On Saturday afternoon a - severe and protracted storm occurred, consisting of thunder and lightning, rain and hail, hailstones being of abnormal size, most of them larger than marbles. The ground for hours after was white in places. Considerable damage has been done to the foliage of potatoes, maize, pumpkins, and other runners, the leaves being riddled and greatly injured ; while hay crops were saturated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9394, 28 December 1893, Page 6
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193SATURDAY'S THUNDERSTORM New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9394, 28 December 1893, Page 6
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