While walking through the grounds of the Nightcliff High School to vote in the Chan ward by-election for the Darwin City Council , my wife suddenly announced she was standing on the step where we watched our four children being bussed to the airport for evacuation after Cyclone Tracy. From that same spot , she recalled seeing , for the first time , a police officer pull a gun to order a man to stop trying to force his way into a bus ahead of women and children.
Another unusual first for her that day was that she saw a copy of an odd publication called MAD magazine. It had been found on the ground at the bus mustering point and our children flicked through it. Sitting up in bed this morning, my wife informed me that MAD had contained jokes about US President Richard Nixon.
She subsequently worked in the domestic science kitchen at the school preparing meals for emergency workers, biking from our wrecked home , once stopped by police at night , thinking she may be a looter.
After experiencing a sharp pain in a leg , it was thought she may have developed a thrombosis. Unfortunately, when placed in hospital, the blood thinning drip was not inserted properly and the fluid caused her arm to swell , resulting in pain which is still felt infrequently to this day. Placed in an Army Hercules, she was flown with others to a hospital in NSW and was later reunited with our children.
Another unusual first for her that day was that she saw a copy of an odd publication called MAD magazine. It had been found on the ground at the bus mustering point and our children flicked through it. Sitting up in bed this morning, my wife informed me that MAD had contained jokes about US President Richard Nixon.
She subsequently worked in the domestic science kitchen at the school preparing meals for emergency workers, biking from our wrecked home , once stopped by police at night , thinking she may be a looter.
After experiencing a sharp pain in a leg , it was thought she may have developed a thrombosis. Unfortunately, when placed in hospital, the blood thinning drip was not inserted properly and the fluid caused her arm to swell , resulting in pain which is still felt infrequently to this day. Placed in an Army Hercules, she was flown with others to a hospital in NSW and was later reunited with our children.
