Monday, January 17, 2011

Before the ABC-Great flood at Echuca

ABC headline states: "Historic floodwaters swamp Victorian towns". Here's another story from a time before the ABC that helps put things into perspective.

Great Flood at Echuca (SMH-Tuesday 20 September 1870)
THE border country to the south-west has been visited by one of the severest floods experienced there for many years. The Riverine Herald states that the principal thorough-fare at Echuca (High-street), was submerged on the 10th instant, and that the houses flooded and property jeopardised or destroyed, indicate a flood higher than almost any, not quite all, from which Echuca has yet suffered.

Read the rest via the link above. Many more at the National Library's Newspaper Archive.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    Indeed this is all not new. (Try telling people that Brisbane floods that they have been worse in the past and they just refuse to beleive it.Sigh.)

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  2. Warwick HughesJanuary 18, 2011 at 10:27 AM

    Gidday Marc - I do not mean to cross into the space you cover so well - but I have just posted re a misleading statement by John Barron of ABC News Radio - on ABC 24hr TV News last night. "Example of how the Australian media propagates misinformation"

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