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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

It's raining, it's pouring...

 تشير التوقعات الواردة من المركز الوطني للأرصاد الى هطول امطار تتفاوت شدتها من متوسطة الى غزيرة ابتداءً من يوم الاربعاء الموافق 4/10 وحتى يوم الاحد الموافق 4/14 ويهيب الدفاع المدني من جميع المواطنين والمقيمين أخذ الحيطة والحذر والابتعاد عن بطون الأودية ومجاري السيول واتباع تعليماته في مثل هذه الحالات .

tushir altawaqueat alwaridat min almarkaz alwatanii lil'arsad 'iilaa hutul 'amtar tatafawat shadatuha min mutawasitat 'iilaa ghazirat abtda'an min yawm al'arbiea' almuafiq 4/10 wahataa yawm al'ahad almuafiq 4/14 wayuhib aldifae almadaniu min jmye almuatinin walmuqimin 'akhadh alhitat walhidhr walaibtiead ean butun al'awadiat wamajari alsuyul waitibae taelimatih fi mithl hadhih alhalat

"The forecasts received from the National Center of Meteorology indicate that the intensity of rain varies from medium to heavy, starting from Wednesday, 10/4, until Sunday, corresponding to 4/14, and the Civil Defense calls on all citizens and residents to take caution and caution and stay away from the stomachs of valleys and streams of torrents and follow its instructions in Such cases."

The top Arabic message I just got texted to me from the local Civil Defense, the other two are Google translate. Seems we are to have some more rain this week. Interesting (slightly) story, I got up the other morning and was sitting down to coffee and breakfast and I started to hear this weird noise. I get up and walk around and it sounds like it is coming from the front door. When I open the door I see that there is a torrential down pour happening. Out the back window of my apartment I see three construction workers huddled under the (very) small roof in front of the dispensary and there was a cat that was headed for the same place but saw the guys and ran around the building looking for another likely shelter I dare say.

In a city that has zero in the way of storm drains the after effects were interesting. Many places had large standing water locations. A day later I drove by a parking lot that still had water up to the rocker panels on the cars in there. Today I saw one place where a truck was trying to suck-up the water still flooding the parking lot by a mosque four days later.

In other news, looks like there has been an attack just a few miles from where I live. 2020 just keeps on giving.

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