freak-storm

I was all set to drop Row off today morning when the early morning sunshine suddenly disappeared! At 8am today it turned from a sunny blue sky to a dark dark midnight sky. My initial thought was “how did the ash cloud from Europe reach here!” It got a bit windy too. And by the time we got on the road some kind of freak shower storm began.

As usual all cars were driving with hazard lights on. A top speed of 60kmph seemed to be reasonable. And just like the previous freak storms, trees were falling, garbage and cats were flying around and lakes began to form in the open desert and on the roads. 2 hours later, everything was back to normal.

Amazingly, none of the FM channels had anything to say about this all morning. KTV channels didn’t bother. And those large public information systems placed across all the highways displayed a “Low Visibility” warning around 8.40am, 10 mins after the storm was over and the skies were bright blue again. :)

Project Cyan has a nice sequence of pics of the storm over Kuwait City.