Exit 15 Top View (East Ring Road Highway)
So lets move on to Riyadh, as the clouds have been traveling east side of the Saudi semi-peninsula. Riyadh started getting some rain but intermittently, sometimes showering and other times are heavy. Luckily, I was able to take some images but haven’t downloaded them into my laptop yet. Anyhow, there were damages to some of the roads infrastructure and some bridges were flooded, but I appreciate the preventive measures that the Traffic Police (Al-Muroor) and Civil Defense (Al-Defa’a Al-Madani) that they took once the rain started. They blocked ways to these flooded area to preventive people from driving nor walking through and provided the vacuum tanks to clean these flooded roads as soon as possible.
I am still wondering what would happen if Riyadh was Rio De Janeiro, and these corrupted contractors implemented their projects just similarly to these in Saudi? Disaster!
Rio De Janerio was brought here as a comparison example because Brazil is considered as a third world country similarly to Saudi.
Rio De Janeiro’s climate receives an average of 1086 mm (42.8 in) of rainfall per year, or 91 mm (3.6 in) per month. On average there are 128 days per year with more than 0.1 mm (0.004 in) of rainfall (precipitation) or 11 days with a quantity of rain, sleet, snow etc. per month.
I know these images can be easily found on the newspaper website but my reason is to make the English readers able to search and find these images through Google while a very website site allow that in English. I enjoy sharing the knowledge and information.
These images are taken by the Riyadh Newspaper and will post my few images later today.
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- Exit 15 Top View (East Ring Road Highway)
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- Just Below Exit 15 Bridge (East Ring Road Highway)
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- E 15 Flooded
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- Exit 15 flooded (East Ring Road Highway)
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- Damaged Store
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- Traffic Jam E15
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- Exit 14 (East Ring Road Highway)
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- E17 (East Ring Road Highway)
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ive been in riyadh for three years and four years in jubail but fortunately i havent experience such heavy floods its really sad of what happened to riyadh region i think it is all because of climate change. The Saudi government should learn from their experiences in jeddah and should act expeditiously in order to prevent occurences of the same tragedy happens in jeddah and now in riyadh.
Yeah, truth sometimes gets sour!
Best way to solve it is to admit it.