'corrie'

Corrugated iron has been a building material of initially necessity and then choice in Aus for decades if not centuries and is still very evident here in the Top End.
As per yesterday's blip, the bombing raids in WW2 caused enormous destruction and some 32 years later on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy came, blew and obliterated Darwin killing more than 65 people. Within days, 25,000 people were airlifted out of the city and a further 10,000 left by road.

Today was a 'hop on hop off' day on the open topped red double decker tour bus. I just love this as a way to see a city and the commentary is always interesting and flavoured of the area!
Spent a few hours at the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT at Bullocky Point and re-opened in 1981 after..yes...Cyclone Tracy destroyed the original MAGNT scattering the collection far and wide.
Amongst the spaces at MAGNT is a dark room where an actual recording of the cyclone plays and the screeching, tearing and crashing is terrifying.
Tens of thousands, if not more, of sheets of 'corrie' were ripped off roofs and buildings and the screeching noises are of them being ripped away.

This strip of 'corrie' is part of the up coming Festival of Darwin and very much a part of the fabric of the Territory it is.