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Jeddah Disaster: What If Jeddah was an American City!

December 22nd, 2009
Dawad Al-Dawad from Aramco

Dawood Al-Dawood from ARAMCO

As Jeddah city has encountered such a devastating flood disaster by the end of November, specifically, a day before Eid Al-Adha where millions of Muslims around the world celebrate.

Official resources claimed that the flood was caused by the heavy rain downpour the city.

To me, it is a bit fishy that the rainfall only has caused the city to sink into the water due to the bad sewage infrastructure! But there is no evidence to confirm that my point is true.

In 2005, a category 5 hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans in LA, USA and left the city with a massive destruction.

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Jeddah Disaster: A Clip Collections!

December 5th, 2009
Car drown by Rain!

Car drown by Rain!

My Jeddawie friend (Mohammad) likes to keep me updated with his latest in term of images nor clips of what happened in Jeddah since he is in the heart of the situation. Yet, he sent the most stunning clip out of YouTube.

It is the most horrific clips yet that I’ve seen and received for this disaster.

Basically, It consists of a collection of clips merged together to be a single clip for almost 8.30 minutes.

It shows people and cars » Read more: Jeddah Disaster: A Clip Collections!

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Riyadh Rain: Reasonable Damages!

December 5th, 2009
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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  » Read more: Riyadh Rain: Reasonable Damages!

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Jeddah Rain: Weather Forecast!

December 1st, 2009
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BBC Weather Forecast

Regardless, under the current circumstances,

What could be expected?

Are we looking for another disaster/surprises?

I hope not and may Allah saves our people in Jeddah  from any potential disasters!

Images taken by a friend’s profile at Facebook » Read more: Jeddah Rain: Weather Forecast!

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Jeddah Disaster: Musk Lake!

December 1st, 2009
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Musk Lake in Jeddah

Musk Lake, is where all the sewage water at Jeddah get dumped at. Ironically, the sewage dumpster named Musk Lake by Jeddah people. I have done some Google search to share some data in English concerning this potential disaster that might collapse anytime these days as a consequence of the recent rainfall.

The lake is located 40 km on the eastern side of Jeddah, extending from the Breiman bridge toward Mekkah. Exactly, 17 kilometers away from that Breiman bridge. The lake size is relatively huge as some of the resources mentioned and it could cause a massive impact beyond what was caused by the recent rain. Roughly, 1200 trailers dump a sewage water everyday which makes the lake extend its size dramatically. The lake contains over 10 million cubic meters of the sewage water as stated on article published by Arab News.

An article was written by Saudi Gazette today 30 Nov., 2009 the Saudi English » Read more: Jeddah Disaster: Musk Lake!

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Jeddah Rain: KAU Hospital Images!

November 29th, 2009
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Nurse with two children in packet

Up to date, the most shocking images have been received on the consequence of the recent rainfall that damaged Jeddah infrastructure. I was debating whether to continue posting them or not but I had to share it which I think is the least thing I can do to these people.

Dr. Omar Rosey was one the of these doctors who was working night shift when the rainfall occurred at King Abdulaziz University Hospital which is managed and operated by the university.

The images show that the hospital is not capable of facing such a disaster and even their server seems » Read more: Jeddah Rain: KAU Hospital Images!

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Rain Disaster: Reaches KAUST!

November 29th, 2009
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KAUST Damages. Image by Dan

Recently, King Abdullah has unleashed the new Technology and Science university at Thawal near Jeddah. The university was built to be the leading university and research center in the region at several scientific fields. The heavy rain fall that happened lately has reached KAUST which impacted some of the university’s facilities. Images within this post explain more on how the university was effected and raised a very important question, Do they have at least a disaster recovery plan for the Shaheen the supercomputer center at KAUST?

The Shaheen supercomputer ranked as the 14th supercomputer center in the world. Unfortunately, » Read more: Rain Disaster: Reaches KAUST!

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