CLOUDS COLLIDE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16866, 1 February 1929, Page 7

CLOUDS COLLIDE

REMARKABLE JTORM A TORRENT OF WATER SYDNEY, Jan. 17. Following a cloudburst on (lie slopes of the Cap and Bonnet mountain, Aloree, a huge wall of water roared down the hillside, sweeping all before it, and doing extensive damage on iuendoo station. As two heavy clouds converged above the mountain there was a series of light-; ning flashes and thunder claps, and a swirling column of dense black vapor appeared in the centre of the disturbance, remaining for a quaiter of an hour. -Soon afterwards a wall of water six feet deep and 400 yards wide, came rushing down the mountain side. It narrowly missed the station homestead, but in the cultivation paddocks it toie great, holes in (he ground. Travelling through the stock yards the water swept fences away and filled a large dam that had been empty for months. The torrent brought down trees, logs and debris, which were left in the paddocks. Even wire fences were swept away and a pumping engine, together with the heavy timbers to which it was bolted, was torn up and carried along for a quarter of a mile. Sheep in tho paddocks were swept away and drowned. The storm was the most severo and destructive that has even occurred in the. district.