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| Brownish River Nile in Cairo |
This is how the River Nile looks like in Cairo on Sunday two days after the Dragon storm.
"It is like the Nescafe," an elderly Egyptian told me this Sunday morning.
The ministry of irrigation issued a statement saying that this color was resulted due to the dust and sand the heavy rains brought in its trips from the hills of Upper Egypt to the heavy rains torrents which end up in the River Nile.
This is creating a problem for Water companies in Egypt which had to cut water for nearly 12 hours across the country in order to purify water from dust lees.
Up till we know that only 20 people across the country. The most devastating part in the country is the 15 May Shantytown.
On Saturday, a mass funeral was held at a Church near the area and the photos there are so sad.
People whether Christians and Muslims are calling the public to help those forgotten people. Again, this is the true Mubarak's legacy that some people are too coward to admit it.
Egypt's minister of social solidarity Niveen El-Kebbaj announced on Sunday that the government had allocated LE 100 million to compensate those affected by the thunderstorm and heavy rain that hit the country last weekend.
She also revealed in her statement on Sunday that 7,750 families were affected badly by the weather according to official estimations.
You can see the size of damage by connecting dots of news across the country from the Governorates to know that the dragon and its storm were not fooling around in Egypt.
In South Sinai, Governor Khaled Fouad stated the state was offering to construct 2000 residential units to the local residents of a village in Ras Sedr located on the heavy rain torrents after the damage that happened there.
The final death toll in South Sinai reached six where three of them happened in Ras Sedr including a 16-years-old girl, a-70-years-old man and a microbus driver in addition to two death cases in El-Tor while the last was late Ahmed Shaaban in Gulf of Akaba who died while saving people from floods.
People are mourning online late Ahmed Shaaban who died in the floods while saving several people in South Sinai last Thursday in a heroic act.
By the way, the Sinai International highway had a landslide because of the rainstorm.
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority is warning from another heavy rainstorm next Friday.
"It is like the Nescafe," an elderly Egyptian told me this Sunday morning.
The ministry of irrigation issued a statement saying that this color was resulted due to the dust and sand the heavy rains brought in its trips from the hills of Upper Egypt to the heavy rains torrents which end up in the River Nile.
This is creating a problem for Water companies in Egypt which had to cut water for nearly 12 hours across the country in order to purify water from dust lees.
Up till we know that only 20 people across the country. The most devastating part in the country is the 15 May Shantytown.
On Saturday, a mass funeral was held at a Church near the area and the photos there are so sad.
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| From the mass-funeral of the victims by Nader Nabil |
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| From the mass-funeral of the victims by Nader Nabil |
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| From the mass-funeral of the victims by Nader Nabil |
Egypt's minister of social solidarity Niveen El-Kebbaj announced on Sunday that the government had allocated LE 100 million to compensate those affected by the thunderstorm and heavy rain that hit the country last weekend.
She also revealed in her statement on Sunday that 7,750 families were affected badly by the weather according to official estimations.
You can see the size of damage by connecting dots of news across the country from the Governorates to know that the dragon and its storm were not fooling around in Egypt.
In South Sinai, Governor Khaled Fouad stated the state was offering to construct 2000 residential units to the local residents of a village in Ras Sedr located on the heavy rain torrents after the damage that happened there.
The final death toll in South Sinai reached six where three of them happened in Ras Sedr including a 16-years-old girl, a-70-years-old man and a microbus driver in addition to two death cases in El-Tor while the last was late Ahmed Shaaban in Gulf of Akaba who died while saving people from floods.
People are mourning online late Ahmed Shaaban who died in the floods while saving several people in South Sinai last Thursday in a heroic act.
By the way, the Sinai International highway had a landslide because of the rainstorm.
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority is warning from another heavy rainstorm next Friday.
* This article was originally published here
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