Cyclone Tracy: 50 Years On

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  • Опубліковано 16 гру 2024

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  • @ChrisStumer
    @ChrisStumer 2 дні тому +4

    Dad was aged 22, he and three others had to hold down a dining room table they sheltered under to stop it being carried away, the house which was of the current type low set brick was completely destroyed. Sheets of roofing iron flew past, bricks, household appliances, all sorts of debris crashed on and around the table. The airport during the mass evacuation, a huge U.S. Air force Lockheed Starlifter, a long line of people lined up waiting to board, occasionally someone would collapse from the heat and lack of food and a paramedic with a medical kit went rushing up to assist. Dad watched a TAA Boeing 727 take off at maximum weight, engines howled at maximum, the airplane used almost every inch of runway, he'll never forget it,

  • @KurtBoulter
    @KurtBoulter 8 днів тому +3

    I was 7 when Tracy hit & our family went up to Darwin two weeks after it hit. The devastation was something I will never forget. They had cleared the airport runway obviously & a few of the main streets. We watched air conditioners choppered off the roofs of the high buildings. Guys were collecting cartons of Stubbies, since the pubs could not sell the water damaged stock. We stayed at the Tiwi motel, who was running a generator to keep the freezers cold. We stayed there for a few days before heading to Gapuwiyak (Lake Evella) in Arnhem land! Most of what was left of the houses, were the stilts which most houses were built on to keep them cool or the slabs of concrete! It must have been terrible to be there when Tracy when through!

  • @edwardcatton1047
    @edwardcatton1047 3 дні тому +4

    R.I.P TO ALL LIVES LOST!, Never Knew You DAD!, but, Always!, in my Heart!, God Bless!.

  • @AnitaClayton-f8g
    @AnitaClayton-f8g 2 дні тому +1

    Yes this is my home my town and still to this day we don't forget the. loss we went thru

  • @johnblyth9787
    @johnblyth9787 7 днів тому +2

    I was just 19 and clearly rember several of our family meeting up to watch the TV news, posibly Boxing Day or maybe December 27th. At the time I did not understand a cyclone. Howeever I can never forget the deverstation.
    For all who went through it in Darwin, I just cant begin to imagine the hart ache. Sending a message of love to All who were affected, especialy those who lost family and friends. ⚘️❤️⚘️❤️⚘️❤️⚘️

  • @stevepierce3509
    @stevepierce3509 4 дні тому +2

    Try living through Cyclone Larry in 2006 a Cat 4/5 in FNQ. With Spec built homes and watching them destroyed.
    Then 5 years later after a rebuild Cyclone Yasi in 2011 a Cat 5.
    This was a life changer for myself and a matter of Survival being alone in my House that was destroyed.
    The noise is engraved in my head Forever and fear of the unknown is a thing that only people that have lived through these circumstances will only ever understand.
    So I feel for all and completely understand all of you involved going through Tracy.
    Which I now live in Darwin.

  • @tracyboswell9333
    @tracyboswell9333 5 днів тому +2

    I was born 2 days before it hit Darwin, My parents had already named me Tracy so I will never forget it

  • @ryanbrown2550
    @ryanbrown2550 7 днів тому +2

    I think one of the reasons it did so much damage was because in 1974, houses in northern Australia weren't built to survive cyclones. I'm pretty sure the building regulations were changed in the late 70s after the massive one that hit and wiped out Townsville in the late 70s.
    💯

    • @jname9368
      @jname9368 7 днів тому +1

      I think even with modern day structures it'd have been just as deadly and destructive. The wind gusts in tracy were somehow on par with landfall measurements from Category 4-5 Hurricanes

    • @ChristopherJewels
      @ChristopherJewels 5 днів тому +1

      @@jname9368 I think TC Althea hit Townsville in December 1971? Also TC Ada in the Whitsundays in 1970 was an initial wake up call to Queenslanders about the need for better building codes. With Larry in 2006 and Yasi in 2011, both cat 5, the new building codes were put to the test and passed overall.

    • @merlenehendry-silver7741
      @merlenehendry-silver7741 3 дні тому +1

      ⁠​⁠@@ChristopherJewelsI was on Magnetic Island when Althea hit on Xmas Eve into Xmas day. Terrifying!

    • @C21L01
      @C21L01 3 дні тому

      1985 before it was made federal law that ALL structures in Cyclone prone areas must be built to withstand the extreme severe eye-wall winds of a high-end C-5 strength Cyclone.
      It actually took 11 years after Tracy to implement this law at the federal level to make sure everything across the board was the same standard.
      Tracy had to have been at her worst in those eye-wall winds, a C-5. The only reason she was declared a C-4 is because the measuring equipment was destroyed at the sustained wind speed of 274km/h and that was not the eye-wall. 😳

    • @ChristopherJewels
      @ChristopherJewels 3 дні тому

      @@jname9368 Meteorologists are fairly certain that there were several tornadoes embedded in the eyewall of Tracy. No building code can withstand 350 km per hour winds. The eyewitness accounts of the roar of a train approaching and all the twisted steel and toppled concrete poles suggest it was more than a category 4 cyclone. Also the northern suburbs were hit much harder than the southern suburbs, with some streets obliterated and others nearby almost untouched.

  • @Oldbutnotout65
    @Oldbutnotout65 4 дні тому

    Still makes me cry. It's 50yrs ago this year, just so incredibly sad.

  • @NellyR
    @NellyR 8 днів тому +3

    I pray i never get to hear those sirens 🚨

  • @paulfomin8945
    @paulfomin8945 22 години тому

    My dad was lucky, he left 3 days before 🙏

  • @suefraser3611
    @suefraser3611 2 дні тому

    Holy crap I'm old. I was two....

  • @markm7441
    @markm7441 День тому

    I was 7, in Sydney I remembered the telethon.

  • @lauran1212
    @lauran1212 8 днів тому +3

    ALL BY DESIGN....

    • @Vineriafr
      @Vineriafr 2 дні тому +1

      I came to see if anyone else was in the know 😭

  • @ThomasAtkinson-jz6pj
    @ThomasAtkinson-jz6pj 6 днів тому +1

    Souded like hell

  • @WendysCove
    @WendysCove 3 дні тому

    I recall this every year by choice they weren't given 1.... 😅

  • @AnitaClayton-f8g
    @AnitaClayton-f8g 2 дні тому

    It took ten years to rebuild but we have done it come and visit our home today you will be amazed at our resilience

  • @Magaman22
    @Magaman22 8 днів тому

    Under 30s say whats a Darwin?
    Is that it Taylor Swift Lyric?

  • @annistopi8968
    @annistopi8968 6 днів тому

    😂😂😂😂

    • @dalesmith4985
      @dalesmith4985 4 дні тому +5

      Something wrong with you to laugh at this

    • @ron7926
      @ron7926 3 дні тому +2

      Aborigines died also, are you lauging at that