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Cyclone Tracy commemorations begin

AS the 40th anniversary nears of Cyclone Tracy which devastated Darwin in 1974, numerous commemorations are beginning.

JEANETTE Anictomatis had just been singing Christmas carols in the shower when she opened her bedroom curtains on Christmas Eve in 1974 and saw a Kombi van spinning through the air.

"THE French doors, like a balloon, flew into the middle of our lounge before they exploded," she said.

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