Heavy Rains and Floods in Sinai And Aswan

Today the weather was bad in Egypt , some areas were lucky enough to avoid heavy rains like for instance Cairo but some areas were unlucky as the heavy rains turned in to flood and this is just the start according to weather forecast.
Officially 4 citizens have been killed , hopefully I will get a better information later today.
Aswan , North Sinai and South Sinai have the bigger share in losses because of the rains that turned in to floods since the morning. Already Nazif has ordered a quick rescue operations for the citizens there.
A British tourist has died in accident in the Nile because of the heavy rains in Aswan today. I feel sorry for him along with all those who died today.
There are rumors that the Egyptian and Israeli forces on our borders searching a missing group of Israeli tourists. Already the citizens in Sinai found themselves in front of an Israeli jeep brought by the floods in the morning !!
Also I read a tweet that the Sharm El-Sheikh airport was badly damaged in the rains !!
Of course there is not official confirmation and let’s say our reporters beside waiting for the permission to go there , are unwilling to take the risk now on the road in this unsuitable weather.
Things in Sinai are not that great at all and it needs urgent help , I hope that the army will save the day as usual. The people in Sinai are praying that the rains do not destroy their houses and kill them.
Here are photos from our big rainy day in Egypt from Central Sinai , it is actually strange some areas in the same governorate were dry like a desert where as other areas were like the tropical forest !!

 

 Update No.1 :

• Sharm El-Sheikh can't be reached now , all highways are cuts because of floods. I do not know about telephone lines and other means of communications too in the city 
• Sharm El-Sheikh's airport was partially damaged but thank God nobody was hurt , the roof in the second floor was destroyed because of yesterday's thunderstorms. 
• The Sharm El-Sheikh's airport was closed for 8 hours but currently it is operating according to news report which I highly doubt !!
• People in North Sinai are really praying to get from this flood , things seem to be terrible there and the aids have not reached yet from Cairo despite Nazif has ordered it since knowing the news in the morning , already I wonder where the new governor is now !!??
• Now you must understand that the stream of the flood in North Sinai will end in the Mediterranean sea and so in the coming few hours Al-Arish and Rafah can be isolated from the rest of the world

Update No.2 : 

• It turned out that President Mubarak has visited Sharm El-Sheikh today to see the damages in the city !! It is very thoughtful considering that he spends there a very long time but I wonder if he thought of checking out the North to see the damages there , I understand the danger of going there but he went to Sharm !!??
  

Update No.3

• The Egyptian National TV is acting as usual as if there is no crisis in the country. 
• Here are more photos from Al-Arish and from Aswan 

From Aswan

From Al Arish

 Update No.4

•  Hundreds of houses have been destroyed in Sinai and Aswan. 
• There are unconfirmed news that several electricity pylons at the high dam were destroyed by the thunderstorms and that the North of the country has no electricity ; of course I feel that this may be partially untrue because we still are having electricity , may be couple of pylons were damaged but not all of them. 
• 6 six red sea ports are closed because of the weather conditions. 
• The telephone landlines in Sharm El-Sheikh are reportedly cut
  

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