For the first time since we've been here it is now actually raining. We did get sprinkled on our first day here but the ground never really got wet. Now schools are closing, people are worried and traffic will be 10 fold worse than usual. We are enterning the rainy season here in Jeddah and on average it falls 25.... mm for the month of November, but that number climbs all the way up to 30 mm for December. The problem is, it rains here so in frequently, that storm sewers were never put into place so there were areas that flooded. One in particular was an underpass that in 2010 flooded and several people drowned in their cars.
When we moved here a lot of the roads were tore up and storm sewers were/are being installed. But in the mean time it was very nice to go outside and feel the rain on my skin, hear the thunder rolling across the sky and listen to all the sirens off in the distance.
Not much else to report for now so I'll leave you with this picture, it's not much anywhere else, but amazing for this place.
When we moved here a lot of the roads were tore up and storm sewers were/are being installed. But in the mean time it was very nice to go outside and feel the rain on my skin, hear the thunder rolling across the sky and listen to all the sirens off in the distance.
Not much else to report for now so I'll leave you with this picture, it's not much anywhere else, but amazing for this place.
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