These images is going to be repeated a lot during the current rainy season which started yesterday. The first two pictures are my own:
This is what the pool looked like in the rain, just to show you how heavy it was. When it rains in Bahrain, it pours!
Poor Phoebe didn’t know what hit her, she looks like a drowned rat! But she did (somewhat) enjoy the rain, Gnasher definitely does!
What’s rain in Bahrain if just about all the villages don’t get completely drowned? More than that after the rain stops, the puddles stay as they are for ages, so much so they literally become mosquitoes breeding grounds. If the puddle is in the path of cars, then it turns into a mud puddle! The poor retches who live in that house will have a “difficult” life for a few days until the water evaporates or gets dealt with by the municipality. The municipality should exert much more effort in clearing these puddles.
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Of course another thing that we continue to hear of whenever we have rain, is the roof falling down on occupants of less than well maintained houses. This one is in Duraz and is lived in by 8 people. Their father has passed away a few years ago, only 2 of the sons have jobs and lowly ones at that. The roof fell on them, but thankfully no one was injured. Goodness knows how long they will have to wait to get that roof fixed.
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This is a typical picture of what looks like the suburbs. Not sure where this picture was taken, but it looks all to familiar for this season.
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Of course, the city itself has to have its fair share of rain chaos. Even though drains are fitted on all the roads, and around all the round-abouts, as you see here, they are blocked! What use is having drains in the first place if they are not maintained?
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Then we have the obligatory traffic chaos. People just don’t know how to drive in the rain, and they end up having sometimes fatal accidents. Patience goes out of the window and “Allah” will look after us as He has always done, so put the peddle to the metal and forget about it! Insha’a Allah we’ll arrive safe and sound. Well in the next three pictures they didn’t, and these are samples of some 79 accidents in the period of about an hour with 2 in intensive care.
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Bahrain in the Rain!
Poor little Phoebe looks so forlorn since no one will come out to play with her in the rain 🙁 Is Gnasher a big baby who has to hide from a little water? Isaac Von Ruffhausen (my dearly departed Rottie) wqas such a big wimp when it came to a little rainfall….
My photos came out nicely — especially of my sweet little buddy in the pool. I’ll email them to you.
Salaam,
PM
Bahrain in the Rain!
You know, Bahrain under water doesn’t look all that different from Texas after a flash flood. There are usually a few cars off in the ditch after a hard rain in Dallas or Houston or Austin. And there is also some dope who thinks he can drive across a road flooded with running water. They usually find them the next day downstream.
Steve
Bahrain in the Rain!
“People just don’t know how to drive in the rain”
Bahrain in the Rain = Los Angeles …
Do you all get fools who feel the need to go swimming in a previously dry wash and then drown due to miscalculating the current? Happens at least once a good storm around here. Wow! Look! Running Water! Let’s go check it out….
Puddle watch 2004 continues…
Ms. Jen in Orange, CA which received an unprecedented 6.89 inches of rain in October.
Bahrain in the Rain!
It seems like the winter is finally here, with temperatures dipping below 25C (77F) overnight. Oh how I love this island.
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