Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Dust storm at Bahrain.

It's been 2 days the dust storm covered the Manama City. I've been working here almost 4 months, the invasion of dust storm will happen average twice in a month in Bahrain.

The most serious case was happened last month, on 16th May. The dust storm was almost covered the whole Manama City and even the sun has been disappeared. You might not able to imagine what does I meant "SERIOUS", see the photos below and you will know how "serious" it was .........


Wind blowing strong & signboard was unclear.


The end of this road is an "island divider". This photo was taken at about 60 meter away from it.


Photo taken about 40 meter away from the "island divider".


Photo taken about 20 meter away for the the 'island divider". Wind was blowing strong and my car was shake like boat while I was driving.

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Compare this 2 photos. The clear photo was taken on 11/4/09 when i went up to our project site, a 20 storey apartment tower to take some photos. In the photo are all resident's villa. I went up again to take almost the same angle shot on 16/5/09.

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The building in this 2 photos is Seef Mall Shopping Complex. One of our project completed in year end of 2006. Clear photo was taken at 11/4/09.

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This photo is the view of Manama City of Bahrain, which also taken from our project's apartment at 20th floor roof top. The bottom side of these photo is a car park which the flooring is yet to be painted with white at the clear photo taken at 11/4/09, but the painting was done when the photo taken at 16/5/09.

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See the different?? The blue building has "disappeared" on 16/5/09

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The different of Heaven and Hell.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Finally you updated after a year! Yeah , the dust storm was so bad in UAE too.

kpliong73 said...

Kenny,
ya, bro....finally...i'm back to KL tmr, what abt u??

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Sharon Wong said...

wahhh! Is very very "SERIOUS"....
how come like that???

kpliong73 said...

Sharon,

The main reason is there are not much tress and grass growing there due to hot and dry weather, and mostly all the ground is sand. The wind will bring all the sand / dust into the air when it pass through the land due to the ground is nothing "holding" them. Well, that's part of life for living in middle east's countries.

kpliong73 said...

Sharon,

Typing error...should be "trees" and not "tress".

Unknown said...

I'll back to Msia next week, will be in KL from 17-20 Jul. See u then!

kpliong73 said...

Really?? Call me if u wanna to hv a cup of tea at mamak shop.....i know u miss it.....