In Darwin Northern Territory of Australia 1974 the world was shocked by the news of a Cyclone destroying a whole town and the suburbs beyond.
Every single person was affected; the hearts of the world went out to the children who lost Christmas.
Yes Cyclone Tracy was the Grinch as she pushed her way through the town on Christmas Eve taking everything in her path.
The news casters were all trying to get a story of the huge event videoing the horror of it and interviewing the town's folk.
Sad stories emerged of the death of loved ones and pets of the injuries and suffering that these people had endured.
They had lost fresh water power and a fear of disease was growing as all sanitation had been destroyed too.
But one story was not so well covered and that was of the seamen that had to ride out Cyclone Tracy at sea to save their boats from destruction, 56 boats in all went to sea that night, only three came back.
Yes small mentions of these boats were in the news papers but no one asked the fishermen's or the cargo and ferry men's families how they were coping.
How would it have been not knowing for days if your husband, brother, father or son was dead or alive many men died that night drowned as their boats were ripped apart and sank beneath the raging sea as Tracy stirred it up like an electric mixer making a cocktail.
One boat that made it back had power and fresh water and was the first to get a message out about what had happened to Darwin and asked for help from the other states.
Another that made it back helped with getting and the distribution of urgently needed generators to the people of the town.
One of these men could not speak of that night for over ten years as the trauma was too much for him to bear.
But now after 35 years he has written a book of what it was like out there on the ocean fighting for his and his crews lives with the most powerful force of nature the evil Cyclone Tracy that took so many of his friends to a watery grave.