DAMAGE BY CLOUDBURST
WATER 4FT. HIGH IN STREETS Press Association. —Copyright, j (Reed. 9.55 a.m.) / SYDNEY, This Day. A cloudburst remarkable for its intensity and the area it affected, swamped the township of Penrith last night. Rain fell in torrents for two and a-half hours, and in the main street the water reached a height of 4ft. Shops were flooded, traffic disorganised and hundreds of cars stranded. The main mountain road is impassable.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 5
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73DAMAGE BY CLOUDBURST Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 5
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