{"id":683,"date":"2019-10-30T07:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=683"},"modified":"2019-10-31T05:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:35:58","slug":"twenty-feet-of-rain-26-oct-1914-if-this-happened-a-hundred-years-later-theyd-be-crying-120-in-of-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"FIJI. TWENTY FEET OF RAIN. 26 Oct 1914. If this happened a hundred years later they&#8217;d be crying 20 ft. of tears, and come begging for another 20 million dollar handout from our gullible leaders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWENTY FEET OF RAIN. (1914, October 26). <i>The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 &#8211; 1929)<\/i>, p. 4. Retrieved October 30, 2019, from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/59271380\/4563702#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/59271380\/4563702#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Where is all the rain that should be falling over Australia?<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">Perhaps Fiji is getting our share. People who are disposed to grumble, should be interested in the following letter from Fiji.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">The writer, who lives in Taviani, Fiji, states that the rain in his district totals over 20ft! &#8220;At the low level at Salia Levu, one of Mr. Coubrough&#8217;s estates on this island (he writes), the regis-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">tered rainfall to October 6 is over 220 in.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">What it has been at centre places, such as Garawalu, the good Lord only knows. It must have been at least 260 in.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">It looks as if before the year is out, that we shall have between 260 and 270 in. at the low level.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">How would you get on with that? It is far and away the worst year for rain I have ever seen in Fiji in over 40 years experience.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">The unfortunate planters cannot get their &#8216;copra&#8217; made up. As I write I am looking out of my window, and the rain is pouring down, with half, a gale of wind blowing.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWENTY FEET OF RAIN. (1914, October 26). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 &#8211; 1929), p. 4. Retrieved October 30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[666,492,406,667,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}