ABNORMAL STORM
SOUTH ENGLAND SWEPT. PEOPLE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 3. Southern England and a large part of the Midlands were swept yesterday morning by a violent thunderstorm. It lasted only about half an hour, but during that time several people were struck by lightning, ( two men being killed. Torrential rain fell, buildings and motor-cars were blown over and shop windows were broken. The storm was most seriously felt in the English Channel, where a 70mile an hour gale raged in the early part of the day. Two of the mail steamers on the Follcestone-Bou-logne run were slightly damaged and four passengers were injured. Other vessels had severe buffetings and but for the gallant work of the crews of motor-lifeboats there would have been loss of life on small vessels which were in difficulties.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18168, 5 November 1930, Page 5
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137ABNORMAL STORM Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18168, 5 November 1930, Page 5
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