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!
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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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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, Continue reading
King Abdullah Road in Jeddah (Before)
The monitoring continues of what is impacting Jeddah nowadays, I have found an article posted in Riyadh Newspaper, the main newspaper in Riyadh, about finalizing King Abdullah Road project in Jeddah which cost 172 million Saudi Riyal ($46 million USD). The article was posted on Sept. 14th 2007 which announced finalizing the road construction which links West Jeddah to West through tunnels and bridges said Eng. Mohammad Ashuwr the GM of studies and monitoring at Jeddah Municipality.
The road’s intersection with Madina road cost about 132 million riyal while its intersection with Hail Rd. cost about Continue reading
Fortunately, Jeddah has enjoyed such a beautiful weather these days due to the rain. Unfortunately, the rain has caused such a big disaster due the very corrupted bad infrastructure that Jeddah is pertaining with the world’s biggest oil country which Saudi Arabia. Jeddah is the main the gate of the Saudi religious tourism due to its near airport to Makkah where millions of pilgrims come every year for Hajj and Umarh.
Ironically, a friend of mine was suppose to come to Riyadh today to spend the Eid holiday but the airport is experiencing such an awful times of the year due that rain. All flights have been delayed since 6 a.m. in the morning and my friend’s flight has been delayed from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. late night (Imagine waiting all that time on such a circumstances).
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Blog's Logo
Lately, I came across a personal blog for a Saudi blogger (Faisal) who named his blog as Stuff Saudi People Like. Honestly, I was diverted to this blog by a post that I have found at Khaled rambles blog.
However, I loved the idea at way of exposing information about a culture and country by organizing the ideas of what people do on their lives on a weekly basis by such a creative honest way.
It looks like that the website just has been created recently based on the domain search. However, the blogger talks Continue reading