PATH OF STORM
DESTRUCTION IN ENGLAND LIGHTNING AND RAIN MANY HOUSES STRUCK STOCK KILLED IN FIELDS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 4. A thunderstorm of exceptional intensity, moving slowly over the southern part of England from west to east, left a trail of destruction due to lightning and torrential rain. Train services were interrupted and many roads were impassable on account of floods. At Exmouth the main streets were Hooded to axle depth. Reports describe leaden skies and vivid lightning and torrents of rain and hail. Motor cars had to use headlights at midday. Many houses were struck by the lightning and a large number of animals were killed in the fields. The depth of the storm belt and its slow progress eastward resulted in thunder, lightning and rain continuing over each place visited for 12 hours and more. Farmers suffered severe Fosses in crops which were flattened by hail. In Devon and Cornwall alone 70 telephone exchanges were isolated. The thunder is reported from one town as resembling a continuous bombardment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 6
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175PATH OF STORM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19701, 5 August 1938, Page 6
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