Yes. In the corner of my brain is the memory of the 1974 super storm

I remember this well. I was 9 years old and living on Bungan Beach. We lost our Surf Club to that storm. The 1st nice morning after the storms we got up early and drove down to Newport Beach, or what was left of it. The sand was completely washed away and we could walk UNDER the massive pine trees, between their roots, where the sand once was. It seems like yesterday.

I was 13 at the time and living over the other side of the Harbour at Maroubra. I remember the awe I had looking at the thunder heads roll in from the south. It wrecked the Paragon Cafe at LaPerouse and the old kiosk at Maroubra Beach. There was sand blown all the way up McLKeon st. Cool footage, wish there was some from over the south side

I remember this like yesterday - May 1974...and ow June 2016...not to mention a few in between !

After spending the night at the Boatshed Restaurant at Narrabeen (where I worked)because we were flooded in, I caught the bus to Manly that morning. I couldn't believe that those boats on the beach had blasted through the walk way to Marineland. I remember seeing hundreds of pairs of rubber thongs washed up on the beach and wondering where they all came from.

@nickfoy4003

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for viewing ,hope it brought back some memories

1974 was by far the worst ever to hit the Northern beaches, but I tell you on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of June 2016 its the biggest I have ever seen it, I got some really good footage of it, I must upload it, and yeah Ive been living in Dee Why my whole life 47 years since 1973 but don't not remember a thing a about 1974 but from I have been shown, thanks for the upload (100% DeeWhyans Trust a few fear the rest 2099)

Wow, that is fantastic. THank you!!

The freakish thing about this May 1974 storm. this is the true daddy of all metro Sydney storms. Its average wind speed over a 24 hour period was 39knts. Meaning the wind SPEED didnt drop below 39knts. A record for metro Sydney. (SOURCE) Telegraph weather facts.

The seagull right at the end made me laugh! Thanks for putting this up!

Remember the night like it was yesterday

i was 8 years old i use to live near dee why beach , i use to hate walking across from manly pier across to aquarium so glad the walk way was damaged made me very happy.

@anthonynorthbeach

7 жыл бұрын

Yes it was a huge structure but as an older child myself the swimming area was incredible ,swimming in the vast sea(well harbour ) without the sharks . I never mastered a dive from the walkway. My parents swam there all the time as children. They actually met on the walkway and married. Their ashes (only a very small token amount) were scattered from the rocks near by. Mum lived in Sydney Rd and Dad at Fairlight as kids and they had wonderful adventures on the Harbour foreshores. Dad saw a shark come up in the swell and take a dog off the rocks near Dalwood beach...hence he loved the pool.

@Angel-nr8td

5 жыл бұрын

@@anthonynorthbeach awe sorry about your parents, good memories i miss the old ferries and manly fun pier and all the movie theaters i use to like the what you call it little displays on the beach. Im lucky to be alive i was going to go the night luna park ghost train burnt down at the last minute we decided to go the same night a week before when we seen it burnt down i shuddered and was lucky afterwards luna park was never the same.

Great footage. heard all the stories but great to actually see images from the event. The fart noise was Cat Stevens farting on his stool.

I was a linesman at Mackellar County Council ( now Ausgrid) back then and it is the one storm in the last 40 years that caused the most damage to our network. It lasted about 3 days and crews worked day and night for a week or more to restore power..I will never forget it..!

@Fuzcapp

5 жыл бұрын

My father was an engineer at Mackellar back then. He and his then wife, were at Dee Why West throughout the storm leaving me at home with the house shaking and a substation blew up on a pole outside our place. It was like a bomb going off. The private pole in our yard fell over and when dad came back he and I went out in the rain and put the pole back up. When he told the guys at Dee Why West that he had done it, the linesmen got up him for not calling them but he said he didn't want to take them away from what they had to do for the general public. He and his wife were telling me how people were just ringing the County Council for someone to talk to, because they were so frightened. So you probably knew my dad, his wife, and a number of sparky mates of ours. We lived directly opposite the old Bonds Factory. That might ring a few memory bells for you. Pic of house and the said pole, is at: facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216284291693058&set=p.10216284291693058&type=3&theater

@gerrato48

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fuzcapp Yes I would have sure known them ! Pity I cant access the facebook link ! Cheers Pete !

@Fuzcapp

4 жыл бұрын

@@gerrato48 Graham Horn. Lyn Christie. We lived oppostie "The Bonds Factory".

@gerrato48

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fuzcapp Those names sure ring a bell ! I just can't put faces to them !....lol !

@3_too_won

3 жыл бұрын

Then Neville Wran amalgamated all the County Council,s and that was the start of higher electricity prices.Typical Labor government .

Although I was 4 at the time I do remember seeing the damage at Manly (Whalf ) Beach

This storm was caused by the French letting off the atom bombs at Muaroa atoll. The sand on the Northern Beaches. Never fully recovered.

What's with the fart noise at 1:50????

@birdie2219

7 жыл бұрын

no fart..?

The music is an absolute CRINGE. Please put on mute.

@anthonynorthbeach

3 жыл бұрын

That's the 70's for you