Rain and floods cut off Makkah district

Heavy rains that hit Makkah in recent days have cut off many people living in Al-Rashidiya district of the holy city.

Residents of the neighborhood said many of them could not reach their houses by car due to the cracked roads where mud and stones washed by the floodwater got accumulated.

They pointed out that the floods swept away the power station for the second time this year. Electricity supply to the district was disrupted for more than 48 hours.

The rain brought great sufferings to the people, many of whom were unable to go to work, and the families had difficulty in dropping their children to school.

The rain likewise prompted the introduction of electric links and represented a fast approaching danger to the lives of kids. 

The occupants approached the Makkah Municipality and Al-Rashidiya branch region to comprehend the issue rapidly by repairing the harmed streets and depleting water pools so they can without much of a stretch achieve their homes. 

Neighbors Awad Al-Zahrani and Sultan Awad disclosed to Al-Madina daily paper that every one of the streets were harmed because of the ongoing precipitation. It is hard to drive through the area, they stated, and added this constrained them to stop their autos far away. 

They requested the experts to discover snappy answers for their concern. 

As indicated by Radi Al-Otaibi and Ahmed Al-Zahrani, the area initially needed numerous civil administrations and the rain uncovered all the pessimism. They asked for the district to send a specialized group to discover the harm to the area and work on repairing it at the earliest opportunity. 

Following the rain and surges, Mayor Mohammed Al-Qoutat immediately shaped a specialized board of trustees to investigate the harm caused to every one of the areas in eastern Makkah, said Raed Samarkandi, executive of advertising and data at Makkah Municipality. 

This panel will review the circumstance and afterward present a specialized report supported by suggestions to illuminate the harm. 

No less than 10 areas of the Kingdom are relied upon to be influenced by harsh climate conditions until Thursday. 

Moderate to overwhelming thundershowers joined by hailstorms are normal in Jazan, Asir, Baha, Makkah and Madinah districts, as indicated by a gauge by the General Authority for Meteorology and Environmental Protection. Harsh climate conditions will likewise influence Al-Qassim, Hail, Riyadh and the Eastern Province. 

Overwhelming to direct rain began in Riyadh district on Saturday night and proceeded on Sunday. 

Solid rainstorm joined by overwhelming precipitation kept on hitting the Eastern Province for the third day, recording an unsurpassed record precipitation in the long stretch of October. Since Saturday evening mists had been working over the skies of the locale pursued by a concise residue storm. 

A couple of minutes before midnight the skies tore open. It was joined by overwhelming thunder that resounded in Dammam, Al-Khobar, Jubail, Qatif, Sihat and Al-Ahsa. Ordinary life stayed unaffected as the rain began at midnight and generally individuals were inside. However, the airplane terminal saw some minor changes in flights that were booked to take off around that time. Rain proceeded until the point when the small long periods of Sunday yet its force went down. 

The skies stayed cloudy all through Sunday morning. Drivers who went to drop their kids to class or on their approach to work were held up in the waterlogged regions in the old urban areas of Thuqba, Subaikha and Raka in Al-Khobar. 

Thus in Dammam, Jubail and Qatif a few low-lying regions were overwhelmed.