Cover page; title page; copyright page; contents; warning; prologue; the emergency; warning; disappeared; uncertain light of dawn; the missing and the dead; does anybody know this has happened to us?; we will get you all out; fault lines; tracy, you bitch; daribah nungalinya; the wild north; the shooting of the dogs; winds of change; i've got to have my trips; 1975; i wasn't worrying about bloody history. i was worrying about the day; i make this place as i go; the shape memory takes; acknowledgments; notes; sources
Summary
Warning is the definitive account of one of the most frightening extreme weather events our country has ever seen. When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tracy destroyed an entire city, left seventy-one people dead and ripped the heart out of Australia's season of goodwill. For the fortieth anniversary of the nation's most iconic natural disaster, Sophie Cunningham has gone back to the eyewitness accounts of those who lived through the devastation, and those who faced the heartbreaking cl
