'Call that a snowfall? This was a snowfall'.
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Around here we think of ourselves as snow country but most of our 'snowfalls' apart from some of the higher levels are little more than a heavy frost.
But it's not always the case.
Today's Flashback series picture shows the aftermath of the heaviest snowfall in Lithgow in living memory, on July 18 1965. It was one for the record books, the only time that a snow wave has extended as far north as Mackay in Queensland - the full length of the Great Divide.
Pictured is the aftermath with clean up still under way days after the blizzard had passed.
The snow had caused a collapse in the frontage of Terlecki's Cafe on the corner of Main and James Street.
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Greater Lithgow was completely cut off by road and rail for days and hundreds had to be rescue from stranded vehicles along the Bells Line and were placed in emergency accommodation in the former ambulance station and the Army drill hall in Sandford Avenue.
The snow came down so fast on the Saturday night that crowds at the Golf Club dance had to spend the night there - without electricity.
One man died when he stepped on a fallen power line near Bell. It was one to remember if you were around and one for the record books.
There was a similar fall resulting in widespread disruption in September 1970. The last time we had a 'real' snowfall in Lithgow city was a somewhat unseasonal dump in October 2014.