Learning to dance in the Rain
If you did not hear, its time to hear now. The country(Jeddah,Saudi Arabia) drowns every year, every single year for the last 20 years or more, yes! 20 years, not 4 or 7, 20! and guess what? its not the governments fault either. The governement as with many projects has priorities and when it locks into a serious one, adheres to the laws of nature and makes way for natural disasters.
When you look up Natural disaster, you will never find rain there. You will find Volcanoes, Earthquakes, mud slides..etc. but never normal rain! I am not refering to the heavy rains of Portland that last 9 month’s a year, or the London rain either, I am talking about a couple of harmless rainy days good for the crops, good for cleaning the streets, or drowning the people in Saudi Arabia’s streets.
My city, Jeddah and its rural areas all seem to be a sitting duck each and every year when the rainy season arrives and hits our land. We pray for it to come, and when it comes we curse the living daylights out of it! We have been a victim of corruption at the municipality levels for many years now, then there is the ministry for water and sewage or whatever that is, each and every single year they get away with it. People drown, houses sink, cars submerge and go deep street diving, people barely make it alive, large trucks and SUV vehicles sales soar, old beaten down ones dissapear. Families lose everything, helicopters try and save what they can, and I hear now they are looking for proffesional divers to save people in BRIDGES AND TUNNELS! I thought diving was a sea activity?
We manage to supply 40% of the world oil like no other, the government appoints capable people who said they could deliver, only to find them uncapable of delivering basic human needs in any city like Sewage systems! I mean if a country that has a much lower income than Saudi Arabia by the Billions, shouldnt that country drown faster than us?
The sewage and drainage systems seem to be a hot topic only when the rain hits the fan, otherwise forget it! You leave your home head to work, come back and its drowning. You leave your products in a storage and you come back its gone. You leave livestock and its gone. You leave your 100,000 dollar cars in a garage and its gone. You can even leave your pets and children and wonder if you ever come home and find them alive!
Is it not time we move Natural rain to serious disastor status and handle it with extreme importance and priority before we lose everything of importance to pure ignorance? Is it not time we started hearing what the other people have to say and not the ones that handle municipalities and sewage/ drainage systems that never saw the light, I do believe the very people that mangae these areas live in well preserved areas and not the same areas that the poor ones that drown do.
I, like many Saudi’s living in areas( A very famous area in jeddah city, actually close to the municipality building!) that suffer from this yearly pouring problem, do dream of a day when I actually enjoy the rain instead of cry and wait for it to stop and go away like a bloody toothache! For toothcaches we have dentists, for pouring rain we need to pray and hope our prayers are heard and the rain pours only on the people that caused this problem, and see them trying to get out alive and watch their cars and homes drown, the very same municipality/sewage/drainage people that we dread, the very same drainage minister, the very own construction people that said it was done, and went to sleep in their fancy cottages in switzerland. Even when the tunnels were made and we were happy as it saved time, but sadly took lives! I hear the King God bless him, gave a special honorary award to a young man who saved a couple drowning by going deep diving in the tunnel to pull them out!!
If the governement paid for it, it is no longer their problem, they trusted people to perform and deliver what they were paid to do, now it is time to check your scores, and your scores are a soar sight for eyes, you see problems like this don’t just evaporate, they grow to larger magnitudes, and kill people.
Here comes the Rain again, pouring on my head like a new emotion…. Eurythmics.
p.s. I am actually writing this while enjoying the Rain in London, knowing I can still move,people will go to work, like every other day and the city will not drown to some clown who forgot to unplug the bath tub water stopper!
By far its time to learn how to dance in the rain, and not make like an ostrich and hide your head in the sand everytime it rains.
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That was a different thought track. I like your style that you put into your post . Please do continue with more similar to this.
Definitely agree with what you stated. Your explanation was certainly the easiest to understand. I tell you, I usually get irked when folks discuss issues that they plainly do not know about. You managed to hit the nail right on the head and explained out everything without complication. Maybe, people can take a signal. Will likely be back to get more. Thanks
Thank you Yuri, I will try and do my best, and please do stop by for your input always.
Rocio, Thank you dear friend. I try to make it easy in order to also draw attention how we people tend to complicate issues by extensive wordings and plans and what not, it just makes me angry to see normal issues handled with abnormal complications that do nothing but waste time and hide the real problems we face.
Please do stop by for a freshly brewed coffee every once in a while :-)
Thanks for the advice. Will put it to work. Tom