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COPY1/418/917 Flood in Chapel Street, St Ives, Cornwall 1894

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  • ROGER FROST said:
    The first signs of climate change maybe ?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/ZaQcC1BZxjbsZvQD7 Chapel Street seems to be wider now; I hope the houses on the left (and the folk) were not washed away.
  • HackBitz said:
    Most amazing photo!
  • tedesco57 said:
    floods are not a modern phenomena
  • Julie Storry said:
    Perhaps the frequency of floods is increasing

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    A different kind of gaslighting.
  • swanq said:
    One possibility is 1915 in Erie, PA
    www.weather.gov/cle/105YearAnniversaryErie1915Flood

    But I don't see any other pictures of that flood location in the Harris & Ewing collection. Also, this flooding does not look to have been caused by such a vigorous rush of water as news accounts of the Erie, PA flood described.

Flood damaged railway bridge over the Burdekin River, 1917

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    1-4 January 1917 Severe flooding in the north-eastern part of the State. Unprecedented floods in Flinders River; great damage to property; enormous loss of stock and several persons drowned. A portion of Burdekin Railway Bridge washed away. 1-14 February 1917 Widespread and serious flooding in most of the inland rivers, especially in the southwest where some record levels reached. Considerable damage to railway lines, fences, &c. Several towns were isolated. Burdekin River flooded. 22 November 1917 Local heavy floods in various parts of central and south-eastern districts, especially between Emerald and Clermont, where bridges and lines were damaged. Two men drowned near Longreach. Source: hardenup.org/media/347511/queensland_flood_history.pdf