Wednesday, November 20th - Major rain storm in Kuwait on Monday

Well, who would've thought! We didn't have school on Monday as the governement was closing the roads close to our school for security reasons for the African/Middle East summit. So I stayed home and watched one wicked storm go by. It was windy, raining very hard (the rain was coming down sideways!) and we got lots. I didn't think it could rain this much, in "the desert". I've included a few photos (not mine) to show you a bit of what we had to deal with.
 

 


We had some more rain on Tuesday, which had been declared a National holiday. So I stayed home again. This weather wasn't great if you wanted to venture far away from home! I got a text from my principal at night saying that we had to go to school on Wednesday, but the students would not be there. Again, they are trying to minimize traffic for security reasons and there is water damage to a lot of schools. So I spent that day at school working on two of the three different projects that the school has going and that have to be completed before the Christmas holidays. We had to leave school early (1h15 instead of 2h40) as they were starting to close some roads. Well, we left to late. We ended up having to take a major detour and got home 75 minutes later (normally a 20-25 minute drive). It was however kinda cool to see the security that was around the airport. There were army trunks with machine guns on them, soldiers just about everywhere, ... and traffic, lots of it. It would be like closing, all at the same time, the 401, Airport Road, the 427 around the airport and all the smaller roads close to it as well. It makes for a mess!
Will things be back to normal Thursday? Not sure.Because of the water damage, students might be asked to stay home one more day. We probably won't find out until later tonight (it was past 9 pm last night when we found out that kids wouldn't be there today).