Tracy

by Gary McKay

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The extraordinary story of the cyclone that destroyed Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974 - in the words the people who survived.

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The Night of the Big Wind by Peter Carr (bluepiano)
bluepiano: Both books contain many contemporary accounts of a great storm & convey the terror of enduring it. Tracy was a far worse storm but perhaps it's not so well-remembered in folk culture as The Big Wind is.

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McKay wasn't in Darwin when the cyclone came through, but he was posted there shortly afterwards to help with the clean up. A Vietnam veteran, and an accomplished teller of stories from that era, he tells this story almost exclusively through the voices of those that were there. And like a truthful story of battle, the horror builds upon horror, but the little stories of survival and hope remain at the end. (

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