Was anyone in eBay in Darwin when Cyclone Tracy went through? I was and believe me it was as bad as it could be. Early Christmas Eve the cyclone went back out to sea, sighs of relief were heard all round and then everyone got on with Christmas Eve parties.
But it came back in and only 1 person had stayed back at the bureau, & it was he that got the news out to the rest of Oz
Quote 1 "By the time it made landfall, Tracy was packing ferocious winds, with gusts officially estimated at up to 230 km/h—the Bureau’s anemometer at Darwin Airport reached 217 km/h before it was wrecked by flying debris".
Quote 2 "While the official estimate holds maximum wind gusts of about 230 km/h, reconstructions of the night have placed the winds at the Radio Australia transmission station at Charles Point, near where Tracy made landfall, as high as 300 km/h".
http://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/625/remembering-cyclone-tracy-lessons-from-a-perfect-storm
I was living in a Darwin suburb at the time and we weren't hit as bad as other places but it was bad enough. We all got evacuated, I went to my sister in Perth but returned to Darwin when we were allowed and no I was NOT a child at the time with bent memories.
Were there leaves still on the trees? yes, some, but only in the less hit places.
Was there any power or clean water? nope.
Was there looting? oh you better believe it, my place had next to nothing left in it when I returned with my kids.
Did the Navy do the clean-up? yes some of them did but it was mainly the Army that did the dirty work.
Was the death toll only 60 - 90 people? NO! it was much higher than that but no one will ever know the true number
So vicr, just shut your mouth, you weren't there so you don't know - believe everything you read do you? what a fool you are - Sandra
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