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  2. Federation Drought - Wikipedia

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    Except for a widespread El Nino drought in 1888, the late 1880s and early 1890s were a period of extremely heavy rainfall [1] over New South Wales, Queensland and to a lesser extent Victoria and the settled areas of Tasmania and South Australia. Lake Eyre is believed to have filled with water from Cooper Creek in 1886/1887, 1889/1890 and 1894 ...

  3. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The heat waves associated caused the deaths of seventeen people and overall damage from the Southeastern-state drought of 1993 was somewhere between $1 billion and $3 billion in damage (1993 U.S. dollars). [67] drought has caused over the United States damage amounting to an estimated $40 billion in 1998. [68]

  4. Great Freeze - Wikipedia

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    Damage to an orange grove in Bartow, Florida. The Great Freeze was a period of back-to-back freezes during the winter of 1894–95 in the Southern United States, particularly notable for destroying much of the citrus crop in Northern Florida.

  5. 'Ghost bridge' submerged for more than a century in North ...

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    The view from the top of the stone bridge at Oak Ridge Reservoir shows the Pequannock River flowing through a flood plain created along in the early 1890s to provide Newark with fresh drinking water.

  6. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The drought dried the topsoil and over time it became friable, reduced to a powdery consistency in some places. Without indigenous grasses in place, the plains' high winds picked up the topsoil and created massive dust storms. [20] The persistent dry weather caused crops to fail, leaving the plowed fields exposed to wind erosion.

  7. Winter of 1886–1887 - Wikipedia

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    Waiting for a Chinook, by C.M. Russell.Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range. The winter of 1886–1887, also known as the Great Die-Up, was extremely harsh for much of continental North America, especially the United States.

  8. Indian famine of 1896–1897 - Wikipedia

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    Although the famine in the Madras Presidency was preceded by a natural calamity in the form of a drought, it was made more acute by the government's policy of laissez faire in the trade of grain. [9] For example, two of the worst famine-afflicted areas in the Madras Presidency, the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam , continued to export ...

  9. Column: Trump's glorification of the 1890s in America ...

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    In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...