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Times Past
Reports of wild weather causing chaos made front page news on this day in 1959. The Canberra Times reported that almost every suburb of Canberra had flooded due to recent storm activity. Police alerted fire crews and ambulance officers at the height of the storm, predicting mayhem and emergency situations throughout Canberra. Visibility on the roads was extremely poor with motorists forced to abandon flooded cars and wade through the floodwaters to higher ground. READ MORE