Flood in Mekkah Saudi Arabia during Hajj 2009/2010
Posted on November 26, 2009
Photo: AP
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.
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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.
Arab saudi Became cool ya mas..
that’s the climate change effect
Woow,
like an examation to CalHaj.
Wish they can do it patiently.
Inspiration of My Self
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.