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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Flash floods in Saudi kill 13 |
| 2013-05-02 |
| [Al Ahram] Thirteen people have died and four more are missing in Saudi Arabia after downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defence authorities said on Wednesday. "By Allen, Mahmoud! What is that?" "Water! Run, Ahmed!" The official SPA state news agency quoted Colonel Abdullah Al-Harethi as saying people died in several areas including in the capital Riyadh, Baha in the south, Hail in the north and in the west. Harethi urged people to avoid wadi valleys and plains that have been flooded by heavy rainfall that began on Friday. Television footage showed 4x4 cars stuck in the middle of wadis and people clinging to a tree to escape fast-flowing flood waters. The vast Arabian Peninsula country has not experienced such a high volume of rainfall for 25 years. But around 10 people were killed in 2011 when flooding swept through the western city of Jeddah, where 123 people also perished in floods in 2009. The inability of Jeddah's infrastructure to drain off flood waters and uncontrolled construction in and around the city were blamed at the time for the high number of victims. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Just left situation room will be sending chins from Gobi in China with sand bag tech stolen in last cyber breach, head of security needs new car and vacation! Moving money now should be on scene in 4 to 6 hours video was horrible! Find alli that knows what a phuckig sand bag is especially in the Middle East, could not find sand blame America guns and a bible! |
| Posted by: Marilyn Lover of the Hatfields1778 2013-05-02 20:16 |
| #6 That is so phucking funny, do they have flood robes like I am a flooding in my bell bottoms? Who cares! |
| Posted by: Marilyn Lover of the Hatfields1778 2013-05-02 18:45 |
| #5 Apres moi le poo /The ancient shitter who is in charge of SA. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-02 18:14 |
| #4 At least it wasn't sewage this time. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2013-05-02 17:31 |
| #3 the saudis are also reporting fatalities from a SARS or SARS like flu. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-05-02 16:58 |
| #2 "Insh'allah." If he wills it, no planning will prevent it. If he wills it not, the planning was wasted effort... and blasphemy. And the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia prides itself on its piety. Q.E.D. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-02 15:03 |
| #1 The inability of Jeddah's infrastructure to drain off flood waters and uncontrolled construction in and around the city were blamed... 'Cause we all know it's better to throw the oil money away in Monte Carlo than spend it on such unnecessary and mundane things as flood control. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2013-05-02 11:58 |