I managed to reach home safely after office late evening wading thru knee
deep water....it rained for only 3 hrs but this floods were so
powerfull...it swept away vehicles n houses and submerged the streets...
situation was similar to Canacona floods we had in Goa...the death toll so
far has reached 107...the reason as the deputy mayor puts it....
First of all, everyone should understand that what happened last Wednesday
was not just rain, it was flash floods coming from Wadi Fatmah through
Bahra. It happens once every 100 years. It was difficult to deal with such a
magnitude of water, [even by] international standards. Even if there had
been a [proper] floodwater drainage network, it would have failed to contain
the damage.
Eddie Verdes' Facebook page says it's raining in Jeddah today :-)
