heavy rain

we got like zero rain this winter season ... but for the past month or so we have been getting some ... nothing significant just light drizzles here and there ... but yesterday was the big one ... it almost never rains in riyadh in may ... but that was a lot of rain for any time of year ... it was a normal day until around 2 pm ... i was at my desk doing some boring report when naser a coworker of mine came to my desk and told me to come outside and see the storm ... so i did ... walking toward the entrance to our building i could see that there was no sun outside ... the color coming through the windows was like orange ... outside it was raining like a mother ... and strong winds too ... like the rain was horizontal ... and so it continued to rain all day ... the drive home which usually takes 20 minutes at most took about an hour and a half ... thankfully the area where i live did not suffer so much ... we got strong rains and winds just like everyone else but today i got some emails containing photos of what happened in some other parts of riyadh and i was like damn ... there were photos of cars literally covered in water ...
here is an article about it ... note the part where they mention the rawdah district ... that's where i live ... and no my satellite dish was not blown off the roof hamdulila ... aljazeera also has a nice article about what happened ...
and finally ... here is a boring video i made while driving home in the rain ... just right-click and save target as ... it's nothing dramatic so feel free to skip it ...