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Tracy: The Storm That Wiped out Darwin on Christmas Day 1974

Tracy: The Storm That Wiped out Darwin on Christmas Day 1974


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About the Book

On Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been flattened by Cyclone Tracy. Only hours before, the town of Darwin was winding down for the holiday season. Like many people that day, Josephine Foreman spent the morning cooking a large turkey for Christmas lunch; Geoff Crane took the opportunity to finish some last-minute Christmas shopping. Reports of an approaching cyclone were taken lightly-after all, the last cyclone had been little more than a storm with a bit more wind. Besides, it was Christmas. At midnight on Christmas Eve, Cyclone Tracy roared in from the Arafura Sea and in six hours wiped out Darwin. It was Australia's worst natural disaster-a night of fear and horror, a storm of unprecedented savagery and destruction. Winds of 300 kilometres per hour totally destroyed nearly all of Darwin's buildings and caused the deaths of more than fifty people. When Christmas Day finally dawned, many counted themselves lucky to still be alive. Twenty-seven years later, some of those who lived through the cyclone's devastation recall their frightening experiences-from the sheer terror of the storm itself, to the heart-wrenching days that followed and the mass clean-up operation and evacuation of more than 20 000 people in six days. This is a compelling account of tragedy, survival and human courage. The noise level rose sharply once the roof went, and thunder exploded all around them.they could hear the sound of debris and swirling glass.coming from the hallway. They were more or less trapped in their own refuge and didn't dare open the door for fear of being shredded by the churning glass.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Part 1 A Storm is Born 1 The Gathering Storm 2 The Lull Before the Storm 3 Impending Menace Part 2 The Sound and the Fury 4 'We could be in for a blow' 5 The Angry Sea 6 Landfall 7 Omega's Path 8 Eye of the Storm 9 Roar of the Devil 10 Riders of the Storm Part 3 The Aftermath 11 The Sounds of Silence 12 Ham, Jam, Lamb or Spam? 13 Epilogue Appendix Acknowledgements Index

About the Author :
Gary McKay was an officer in the Australian army and spent 16 weeks in the clean-up operation of Darwin. In researching this book he interviewed over 50 of the survivors who became 'riders of the storm that wiped out Darwin'.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781865085586
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 230 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1865085588
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Storm That Wiped out Darwin on Christmas Day 1974


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