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Flood in Jakarta is common and coming as regular as rainy months. But flood in Makkah, Saudi Arabia? That’s a happenings and worrying as well. To make it worst, it happens during the boxing-day of Hajj rites.
Muslim pilgrims circled Islam’s holiest site Wednesday in their traditional white robes, with a few additions — umbrellas and face masks — as the opening of the annual hajj was complicated by torrential rains and fears of swine flu.
Saudi authorities have been planning ways for months to inhibit the spread of swine flu during the pilgrimage, which is seen as an incubator for the virus. The four-day event is one of the most crowded in the world, with more than 3 million people from every corner of the globe packed shoulder to shoulder in prayers and rites.
Now they are scrambling to deal with sudden, unexpected downpours that could worsen one of the gathering’s perennial dangers: deadly stampedes.
November 26, 2009 at 7:46 am
Wow, it’s hard to imagine an arid peninsula like Saudi Arabia, where dry weather and deserts are scattered everywhere, got flooded. Freak of nature? I guess Al Gore isn’t telling us lies about global warming dangers.
November 26, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Arab saudi Became cool ya mas..
November 28, 2009 at 3:04 am
that’s the climate change effect
December 2, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Woow,
like an examation to CalHaj.
Wish they can do it patiently.
Inspiration of My Self
December 4, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I don’t think Mekkah experienced flood in this year’s Hajj. Jeddah, on the other hand, was devastated by the worst flood in 27 years, killing 100 people.