Rain levels in Jeddah yesterday, recorded by monitoring stations, reached 179.6 mm, up from 74 mm in November 2009.
sighted a cameraNews24As part of a field tour of the damage witnessed in Al-Ajaweed neighborhood (south of Jeddah), which is the most prominent of the neighborhoods affected by yesterday’s heavy rains that the governorate witnessed yesterday.
He recreated the sight of cars demolished and piled up due to rainwater within the Al-Ajaweed neighborhood. We recall the Jeddah torrential incident in 2009, which caused cars to drift and crowd within the Quwiza neighborhood, that incident which is still engraved in the memory of the people of Jeddah.
Landslides, falling poles and car movements
I took a cameraNews24Scenes of the damage caused by yesterday’s torrents, which clearly affected the Al-Ajaweed neighborhood, as the residents of the neighborhood were surprised by the drift of some cars and their arrival at some houses, where they settled in front of they, and conversely, the lighting poles fell into the streets following the landslides that occurred in the Al-Ajaweed neighborhood.
excess stock #cars and collapses.. #to rain yesterday b #grandmother Remember the scenario of Seoul 2009 #Jedda_Rain https://t.co/dOj2qmRAc9 pic.twitter.com/Q8Zpc8LOGf
– News 24 (@Akhbaar24) November 25, 2022
