However, Cyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin in the early hours ... Darwin's population was reduced to little more than 10,000 after more than 36,000 residents were evacuated. Fifty years on, the ...

All communications, power, water and sewerage were cut off ... Women wash babies in buckets on the side of the road after Cyclone Tracy.(ABC News) "It was not the death toll that made it one ...

The city was left with no power, no water, no sanitation and no communications ... “It is indicative of the state of shock of all those who endured Cyclone Tracy that some 18 hours after the cyclone ...

Most of us were left with only the clothes we were wearing and we had no electricity, running water or sanitation ... In the first few months after Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, those of ...

After Tracy, Darwin was rebuilt using a tough new building code, but the city was not visited by another major cyclone for many years. In early 2011, Cyclone Carlos dumped massive amounts of rain ...

Kendall’s bassinet was placed on bathroom scales to protect it from water ... of Tracy, but also the remarkable recovery and evacuation that took place in the week after the cyclone.

A new photographic exhibition shows in stark clarity the extent of the damage caused by Cyclone Tracy ... water coming in around the edges, and we thought that didn’t look good at all.” After ...

The Morris family home at Nightcliff after Cyclone Tracy. Picture ... “I remember being on the tarmac handing out bottled water. It was so hot, so so hot,” she says. “I really felt for ...

Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy changed the lives of those who lived through it. But it has also fundamentally changed the rule book to building in Australia.