Images of children with flood waters running around their knees or school children being carried to safety in a rowboat. It appears to have not changed much since 1950 which was, until this week, the wettest year in terms of annual rainfall recorded in Sydney.
Everyone on Board: Children Excavated in the Maitland Floods, 1950.attributed to him:State Library of New South Wales.
Thursday was the day the records were swept away. A spokesman for the Bureau of Meteorology said that shortly after 1 p.m., the official rain gauge at Observatory Hill reached a total cumulative annual precipitation of 2,194.6 mm.
That was enough to surpass the previous record of 2,194.0 mm – records began in 1858 – which were set over the full 12 months of 1950. That year saw widespread flooding across New South Wales, with Maitland particularly affected.
In 1950, before the days of the State Emergency Service founded in 1962, it was all in the hands of the fundraising pump, the self-help concept familiar to Lismore citizens today. The Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop Committee sponsored a flood relief concert at City Hall and the Metropolitan Theater gave a special presentation of its current production Chinese lantern In July to help flood victims. Today’s stars Elizabeth Bergner, Arthur Askey, Evie Hayes and Roy Rene (“Moe”) have been booked for a special ‘Flood Relief’ concert at Sydney City Hall to aid the Lord Mayor’s Flood Relief Trust.
Floods in Maitland, 1950.attributed to him:Maitland City Libraries
On June 15, nearly an inch of rain fell in Sydney between 8 and 9 p.m. Between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., 170 points were scored [In January 1974 the Bureau of Meteorology made the conversion from recording rainfall in points to millimetres, 1 point = 0.254 mm, and 1 mm = 3.94 points]. Floods of water flooded from Lake Narrabeen and the hills to the west of Kolaroy Petwater Road, Announces mentioned. Dozens of cars stopped in four feet of water and had to be abandoned.
Mrs. PM Tilburn took a bus at 11 pm from Narrabeen’s house to Dee Why. She said, “I have lived here for 30 years, and have never seen anything like the water we went through. All the passengers were terrified. We thought we would never pass.”
letter to Announces That same month, Prime Minister Robert Menzies called for dam construction to be prioritized over work on the snow project. Cohen of Blakehurst wrote: “Statesmen make history for their accomplishments. Then let Menzies prove his worth by taking up the daunting challenge on our Central and Northern rivers. Certainly the snowy scheme lacks the apparent urgency of the past twelve months to create the dikes that could protect these cities from destruction.”
A story from October might be useful for those judging the go-and-study paradigm to flutter atop Everest at Randwick next Saturday.
The report said: “The Rosehill track, which is recovering from the rain, was swamped by a heavy storm late yesterday. The track is expected to be heavy for today’s meeting. If the weather is fine this morning, course crew will work immediately to dry the track, as much as possible.” before the start of the race.
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