No Sunrise in Kuwait
You will not find me complaining about the rain. I am imagining what a difference this steady downpour is going to make in very short time. People who think of “desert” have no idea of the life in the desert waiting to spring forth at the slightest sign of moisture. It doesn’t take much – and I believe we are going to see some amazing things soon in Kuwait.
I was up for the sunrise this morning . . . no sunrise appeared. This is about the best I could do:
I thought the heavy downpour last week had washed my windows clean, but I think some dust must have come and stuck to the wet windows. Or else the rain is not so clean . . . 😦 Please pardon my streaked windows!
Life interrupts blogging. We had an emergency that had us out on highway 40 to help out a friend in Eqaila. We was a terrible accident on 40; truck jacknifed and hit two cars. Traffic was totally gridlocked waiting for the ambulances and police to arrive. Folks, please be careful out there.
And please, mothers, fathers, protect your children. Anyone who doesn’t need to be on the roads should be at home. These kids, riding on the slick highways, barely visible, are taking a huge risk:
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where is Highway 40 ???
is it the fahaheel express way
Daggero, don’t you know?? The Fehaheel Expressway is 30. The Magreb Highway, the one that goes to the farms in Wafra and to the chalets and to Saudi Arabia, that is highway 40. None of my Kuwaiti friends call them that, only us expats – and that is because that is what they are called on the maps we use to try to find our way around Kuwait! 🙂
Yess it looked famliar because i used it last week to go to wafra 🙂
The expats always use Numbers .The locals just drive until they get there
LLOOLLL.
I know the streets by numbers and by names
its simple
first its Gulf Rd 25
Then fahaheel 30
then Cairo 35
Ahmadi/Maghreb 40
Damascus 45
Airport 50
then I go by numbers thereafter
when its even number… 30,40,50..etc its a highway and no traffic lights (signs are green)… when its odd number; 25, 35, 45…etc there are traffic lights (and the signs are blue)
Both get cut off with ring roads
Oppssssy! I get carried away 😛
I had no idea that thing about the green signs/ blue signs, Ansam . . . now that I think about it, yeh . . . ! I sometimes wish there were more signs – some exits are barely marked, or marked like right when you need to exit and you are two lanes away. I often use GoogleEarth so I can see, visually, where I need to go and how to get there, especially when going into some of the areas where I am going to a specific house, and it is like going into a maze!
I was out in that mess trying to run errands.
People, Do NOT Talk on your mobile speeding down the expressway while the little ones run amok un restrained the the car.
Being a former Emergency Medical Technician I can attest that your child will turn into a bullet in the event of an accident. All it takes is someone believing that they are too important to wait in traffic to cause an accident. they happen everyday.
Get off of the mobile, follow the laws like everyone else and buckle your children.
Byte-Stryke, I don’t know how long you have been here, but we share some of the same concerns. One thing I have seen recently gives me hope – I am seeing most of the children in the back seat, very few in the front seat. I think there is now a huge fine for having children in the front seat, and it is making a difference. I am not seeing children strapped in – but I am seeing more and more adults with seat belts, even (gasp!) some taxi drivers! Change is happening on the roads.
There were fewer people on their mobiles back when the “no mobile” rule was being enforced and people were being fined. Enforcement has to be consistent or the people ignore the rule.