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My experience with Tracy 1974

by Fay Karamanakis
(Darwin NT Australia)

My name is Fay Karamanakis and here is some of my experiances of Tracy

Tracy was unbelievable, I am still almost aghast with the memories. My story's is a little bit dramatic too because our dog saved our lives only to get shot the next day by the cops because they were worried about diseases.

It was traumatic days I stilll remember and around 11 o'clock it started to get really windy and scary.

I normally did not like to have any animals in the house because of the children.
I felt sorry for our Dog blacky who was scratching the class door to come in.
He was as frightened as I was so I put a nice warm mat in the kitchen and let him in.

As soon as I let the animal in and it ran to the baby's cot and pulled the sheets and he made the baby knock her head on the cot leaving it screaming then went into the next room and pulled the three year old off the bed on to the ground. I was really wild with the animal, so I took the dog and chucked him out and I had to settle the kids, my three year old daughter weighed a ton so I had to pick the baby as well as the three year old child and try and stoped them from crying in the mean time the dog was still going crazy. When my husband came home after a bout an hour the weather was very bad there were wild winds belting the windows and the whole house was shaking.

He saw the dog and felt sorry for him so he brought the dog in from the winds as soon as I seen him I was wild and told John my husband not to let him in. Then the pet looked at me with a strange look in his eyes as if he was trying to tell me something, he then took me by the skirt and was trying to lead me to the door while I was holding the two babies. By that time the galvanised iron roofing was starting to lift and this animal was really telling us to go.

John said the animal is trying to tell us to go so I grabbed my babies’ bag while I was carring the baby and John carried Katie my oldest child and ran down stairs in our granny flat thinking that it would be best and it was.

So, that's when we decided to go. Exactly two minutes later the whole house just collapsed, the whole house was completely gone.
Our story like so many others is one of strange happenings. We must have had a saint look over us that day.

There is so much more to this story and it will make a good book about My exeriance with Tracy.

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Shooting of the dogs
by: Anonymous

I was a Police Officer in Darwin after the cyclone. A few days after the cyclone we were ordered to shoot all dogs as it was a concern they would get into the rotting food in the suburbs and maybe cause major disease. I was stationed at the Casuarina High school and shot a couple of hundred dogs which haunts me to this day.
I recall walking down between rows of survivors and saw a young boy with his little dog on his lap covered with a towell. Doing my job I took that dog to a pit dug for the purpose and shot it.
I will never forget that little boy or his little dog. I hoped as time went buy I would forget. But I have not.

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wow
by: unique

Wow that is sooo sad. The poor dog and after he saved ure life!

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by: Nick

That is a truly amazing story, and I can't belive they shot your dog right after he/she saved your lives! I wish you all the best!
~Nick

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awesome!!!
by: tammy kathopoulis

Wow Fay.... your story is so interesting, reading your story made me realise how lucky we are today, ive never been in anything like that before and im hopeing im never in something like that ever... good on you Fay, i wish you all the best.
lots of love Tammy Kathopoulis
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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wow how amazing
by: hello my name is maggie

This story gave me information not to go to Darwin. I read your story and felt bad about what had happened. I wish I could have stopped it. But I am not mother nature. give my regards to the dog.... ()()

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wow
by: Anonymous

wow..poor person..poor dog!

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by: Anonymous

hi guys good info

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project assistance
by: mystery gal

the info was good and helped me for a section of my homework project.

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