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Speaker 1: Now speaking of cyclone Tracy survivors joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line right now, I believe I've got splash from Humpty dew, get.

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Speaker 2: A splash, Hey, get a katy. Here you going good?

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Speaker 1: Splash mate. You are a cyclone Tracy survivor, aren't you?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no worries, mate. I was living I

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Speaker 2: was actually living down a middle beach, but I moved

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Speaker 2: up to a place number six Lindsay Street. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: yeah that's when it comes through and crashed through the

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Speaker 2: city and roll caravans over in the yard we're in

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Speaker 2: and all that. Yeah, yeah, but we survived. I didn't

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Speaker 2: know any people that were badly hurt. But splash.

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Speaker 1: How old were you mate, when the when the cyclone.

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Speaker 2: Hits Well, I'm seventy seven now, yep, so there you go. Seven. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah, the go. I'm not real good

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Speaker 2: with numbers.

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Speaker 1: No, that's all right, mate, neither am I. You probably

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Speaker 1: hear me on a Friday have a crack at the

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Speaker 1: maths challenge and I never know. So, so you're about

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. I mean, it must have been like something

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Speaker 1: quite unbelievable when it barreled through. But then the cleanup afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, I was involved in all that. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When you go to the museum and go in that

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Speaker 2: room and listen to that thing, Yeah, the noise thing,

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Speaker 2: well that is there's nothing like it, mate. It was

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Speaker 2: like it was like a hundred freight trains screaming through

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Speaker 2: the place that you never heard anything. All their ears popped.

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Speaker 2: We were in a I was in a caravan when

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Speaker 2: it started rocking, and I'll go out and we got

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Speaker 2: in this block building and that was on the back

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Speaker 2: of the block. It was in a blush block and

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Speaker 2: had three B two's in the ceiling and corry got

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Speaker 2: iron and I was sitting in the bath with me

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Speaker 2: dog and when I come through and I had a

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Speaker 2: big Jim torch shone up into the ceiling, and the

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Speaker 2: other people in there with me, I said, wat's this.

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Speaker 2: And we were listening to the bloke on the radio

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Speaker 2: and we heard a crash coming through the transition we

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Speaker 2: had and he said, well ladies, and gentleman that said

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Speaker 2: I'm packing up, see you later, and it went dead.

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Speaker 2: And then I said, Jesus, look at this roof. And

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Speaker 2: she started going and started vibrating and all of her

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Speaker 2: ears popped, and I blew it clean off, and we

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Speaker 2: were looking at the sky and when it wasn't that

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Speaker 2: much lightning where we were, but when it flashed, it

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Speaker 2: looked like a rubbish stamp in the air. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: and heir ears popped, and and one woman that she

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Speaker 2: actually had to sit on the toilet, she was that frightened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah she was an older woman. And yeah, but then

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Speaker 2: we got we got inside the house that was out

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Speaker 2: the front.

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Speaker 1: Oh, splash. I can't I honestly, I can't even imagine

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Speaker 1: what it was like for you guys living through that,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and and then sort of how much

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Speaker 1: it took to rebuild Darwin in the aftermath splash. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you think about all of that, and then when

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Speaker 1: you know, when you listen to the discussions that we've

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Speaker 1: been having about this monument, and when you see that monument, like,

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Speaker 1: what do you think?

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Speaker 2: I've seen a photo of it. Messas showed me a photo.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, nothing, bloody, I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 2: It looked like something near some horror movie. And anyway,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Really like it's sort of a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: kind of scratching their heads, going, what does this have

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Speaker 1: to do with cyclone Tracy, I.

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Speaker 2: Suppose, and the bloke had done it. Where did he

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Speaker 2: come from?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he was from Interstata overseas. I'm not

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, a bad scarles. He wasn't even here anyway, and

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Speaker 2: I don't think anyway. A funny story with me and

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Speaker 2: an old boy called Leo Burns and old chippy. He

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Speaker 2: came down and got me after the cyclone. Over the

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Speaker 2: cyclone and he walked up and seeing me, he said, oh,

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Speaker 2: are you better come and work because we're working on

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Speaker 2: the Hooker building at the time. And anyway, he said,

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Speaker 2: come and work with me. I got to put all

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Speaker 2: the rules back on Suttain Motors Holding Dealers, and anyway,

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Speaker 2: I worked with him. We had a generator and but

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Speaker 2: we had to know the roofs on. But we we

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Speaker 2: went to called out to the big boss of Satin

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Speaker 2: Motors New Cars. His his name was Morgan anyway, and

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Speaker 2: we went to Packard Street to his two story house

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Speaker 2: overlooking Doctor's Gully, put the roof bag on and anyway,

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Speaker 2: there was next door. There was no boundary fence and

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Speaker 2: just lawn and the next door house the black coming

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Speaker 2: out and said to me, oh you want to TOI

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Speaker 2: your dog up on my verandah and keeping you know,

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Speaker 2: it was a bit of shade from him, or tied

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Speaker 2: me dog up there. And I heard this noise and

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Speaker 2: I said, christ, what's that noise? And he said, oh,

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Speaker 2: come around the corner and have a look. And he

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Speaker 2: was a doctor at the hospital and all the whites

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Speaker 2: were hanging on the line, and he'd got an axe

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Speaker 2: and cut the side out of an old washing machine

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Speaker 2: with a ring up top. And he cut the side

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Speaker 2: out of the axe, this doctor, and then he put

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Speaker 2: a belt in there and then he got four B

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Speaker 2: two's and he nailed and his wife, oh god, he

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Speaker 2: was in and he tied it up and then he

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Speaker 2: walked and he took the blade off the lawn mower

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Speaker 2: and he said, wats this And he started up the

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Speaker 2: lawnmower and the washing machine was going to wash all

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Speaker 2: his clothes for the hospital. And there was a work

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Speaker 2: of art. I thought, I thought, you know, even even

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Speaker 2: a bushman would be proud of that. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 2: don't know what happened. I reckon it all went to

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Speaker 2: the dump later on. If that was up there, it

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Speaker 2: was a sculpture of that cris that would make everyone small.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I tell you what, Splash. I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you calling me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 1: You've made me laugh and and I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having a chat with me. I'm gonna have to go

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Speaker 1: because we've got so much lined up for this hour, mate,

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Speaker 1: but thank you. Thanks for giving me a call.

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Speaker 2: Oh that was just Keep on smiling and everyone seems

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Speaker 2: to be sad and Christmas. Keep on smiling.

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Speaker 1: You I try, Splash. If you don't laugh, mate, you

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Speaker 1: know it's the It is the best thing to do.

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Speaker 1: You've got to have a laugh. Thanks Splash, Talk to

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Speaker 1: you soon. Good on your mate. Thank you