Last night there were three drops on my windshield on my way to town. This morning around nine the skies opened up and got a good three-hour frog-drowning gullywasher! It must have rained at leas three inches! Wind too! Just like home.
Wonderful, the first rain we have had here in Jeddah in over a year.
Today is the last day of the Hajj. I presume Mecca got zapped too. Not many people can say they got rained on at Hajj, good for them!
Wee!
:eek:
And to think I used to hate Miami because it never snowed. Man, at least we got rain!
It is snowing here. :mad: We are going to get 5-10 inches. I actually perfer cooler weather, but I hate the snow!
Geez, I hoped the people taking the Hajj packed umbrellas and suchlike… 
When I was in Kuwait, we had a couple of near-monsoon-like storms that rolled in for a few nights, and then dissappeared.
Is that the sort of rain you guys get over there: all or none? I’m thinking back to when I lived in Arizona. Down in “the valley” they would have monsoons that were pretty darn impressive. . .
Tripler
“I’m singin’ in the rain . . . just singin’ in the rain . . .”
Well, eight years ago, in my first winter here, we had a modest rainy season. It was highly unusual though. We have no surface (fresh) water in the Kingdom and more or less operate on desalinization plants.
What is strange is that there is no drainage on the roads and so on here. So now we are all set for a swarm of mosquitos.
Paul, how did people manage before the desalinization plants were built? Did they have wells?
CNN has picked up the story, but we heard it here first.
The local papers put the news ‘above the fold’ this morning. Fortunately, it did not disrupt the final day of Hajj. We did a real good Hajj this year thank God.
Aparently. in the Good Old Days people around here used wells and a couple of oasis to get water. But Back in the Day there were a lot less people.