Seriously though this is an excerpt of an interview worth listening to, the raw emotion and the use of amateur radio enhanced the feelings of numbness and devastation at the time. Twenty-five years after the event Mike Hayes on the ABC 7:30 Report described the cyclone as "... just so devastating that there was no doubt that something very important had gone forever. (Gulps) Sorry. It's just a -- this total sense of loss. I don't know what other people felt, but -- and I don't know why it still affects me -- but it was just a realisation just that something had gone. And yeah -- But, you know, that's one of the emotions that still -- gets me."
The ham radio also added to the hollowness and stillness felt in a cylone, but what obviously stayed with Mike all those years later was, "... just the whole world screeching, a giant's fingers on every blackboard in the world as all this rubbish just slowly took off and scraped along the surface of the road."
Unfortunately to listen to the whole interview a trip to Canberra is required otherwise open your wallets and visit http://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/.
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