Flash flood in Saudi Arabia

[Crostorm]

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section ... ry=Kingdom
90 mm of rain, which is more than the total annual amount for that city. Annual average is 67 mm. The largest part of the annual amount of rain is in November (25 mm) and December (31 mm). Period from June to October is dry, without rain.

[Cyclenall]

Those are some incredible pictures! Reminds me of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami the way all those cars and debris are all mangled up in a bunch.

[vbhoutex]

WOW!! There has been no mention of this in the news about this.

[jinftl]

Some more photos...these are unbelievable....after just seeing the Anthony Bourdain "No Reservations" episode where he visits Jeddah, I am particularly shocked at what I am finding in terms of reports of damage and loss of life from the deluge of rain. It is easy to forget that there are coastal locations in this area of the world.








What is interesting....there is already chatter of threatend lawsuits against officials for not preparing adequately for such an event. Hmm...where have we heard that before?
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=11 ... =351020205

[vbhoutex]

We have friends that are working in SA. I don't think they are in Jeddah though. Nothing on facebook about it from them so I consider that hopeful for my concern. I can't believe those pictures!!

[Crostorm]

Also this year floods in Jeddah

Jeddah Destructive Flood: Ten dead, three missing in Jeddah floods
http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=223088


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzgder3K7Iw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ4u7pK4ASc[/youtube]

[Macrocane]

Impressive videos, the waters can be cheating, if it wasn't for the cars you would think that they're not very strong.

[vbhoutex]

Looks to me like they need to do something about drainage infrastructure in Jeddah. Unless the rains are very rare once in a lifetime events(2 years in a row?).

[Crostorm]

Also this year floods in

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPl_soJ-SZ4[/youtube]

[wxman57]

90mm is only about 3.6". We had 7.5" in 2-3 hours earlier this week and had only minor street flooding in my neighborhood. They must not have any drains at all there. Nowhere for the water to go.

[Crostorm]

In Bisha in 12 hours fell 135mm

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?l ... 01&hora=12

[Crostorm]

Here is the satelite image from Modis


Taif




Near Hafar Al-Batin

Desert transformed to river





King Fahad Dam (Sadh Malik Fahad) in Bishah is the biggest dam in Saudi Arabia with a capacity of 325 million cubic meter. It colapsed







arabiaweather.com

[artist]

Wow!