Saudi Arabia, a land where global warming had arrived probably 20,000 years ago, a land so dry that it has the greatest expanse of completely lifeless desert in the world. The “Rub Al Khali” or better known as the “empty quarter”. There is so little rain here that everyone forgets to build any kind of infrastructure associated with drainage.
The roads here have no drains at all and when it does rain it floods within minutes. The roads turn into rivers that run deep and fast.
We have just a few days of rain here which is a bit unusual for this time of year. It was simply amazing to watch the entire place turn into a lake in a matter of hours.
Some watery scenes:
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It is such a contradiction here that you have the extremes of dryness followed by the floody water abundances. The water usually hangs around for about 2 weeks afterwards in pools. Surrealisam at its best.
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