Tidal wave.

[octave]

I was just reminded by an article about an event 50 years ago today.  I was growing up in Adelaide, and I was 13 years old.  The Dunstan government had just decriminalised homosexuality, being the first state to do so.   A religious nutter who claimed to be a clairvoyant predicted that this would cause a tidal wave on this day at midday, and it would wipe out Adelaide. 

 

Although apparently some took it seriously, a few sold their houses and moved, it was mostly treated a little more lightheartedly.   Some workers turned up to their jobs in flippers and floaties. I can remember "I survived the Adelaide tidal wave" T-shirts.   The Premier, the colourful Don Dunstan, stood on a balcony at Glenelg saying if the tidal wave came, he would turn it back.

 

  

 

[onetrack]

Ha ha! That's classic! I don't recall anything about it, possibly because I was working in some remote location, and didn't have access to newspapers or TV.

 

What I find even funnier, is the clairvoyant religious nutter has the same name as my brother! 😄 

[red750]

I can't say I remember it, I was living in Sydney at the time, but had lived in Adelaide for 3 months in 1972, on a temporary posting in the bank.