Photos of aftermath of Cyclone Gonu in the gallery
A friend has very kindly sent me his catalogue of photos of the aftermath of Cyclone Gonu this year. These are now on display in the newsbriefsoman photo gallery.
They were taken in Al Ghubrah, Al Athaibah, Ghala, Al Ansab Dam and in Wadi Adai, including the shopping centres at Qurum which stand on the banks of the wadi. It's said that bodies were discovered in the waters in the basement, presumably of looters who had entered the building after dark and fallen in.
The wadi deposited metres of sediment in and around the shops. If you want to understand why you should never camp or drive in a wadi when it is threatening rain, I recommend looking at photos DSC02703 and DSC02705 which show what happens to anything or anybody that gets in the path of a flash flood.
I'm told that Al Ansab dam did not fail. It's just that there was so much water, it just washed over the side channel overflow.
The emphasis is very much on material loss in these photos. After all, compare the images of upended cars in Muscat with photos of people on the sub-continent who also lost what few possessions they had in this year's heavy monsoon rains.
Government has already begun distributing compensation. Saleh Al-Shaibany recently chastised those who claimed government money to replace just a few losses in their homes such as a TV sest, justifying it as claiming their "share of the state revenues" when others had lost everything, with only the clothes they were wearing to call their own.
It would be nice now to see photos of these same areas to show just how the cleanup operation has gone.
They were taken in Al Ghubrah, Al Athaibah, Ghala, Al Ansab Dam and in Wadi Adai, including the shopping centres at Qurum which stand on the banks of the wadi. It's said that bodies were discovered in the waters in the basement, presumably of looters who had entered the building after dark and fallen in.
The wadi deposited metres of sediment in and around the shops. If you want to understand why you should never camp or drive in a wadi when it is threatening rain, I recommend looking at photos DSC02703 and DSC02705 which show what happens to anything or anybody that gets in the path of a flash flood.
I'm told that Al Ansab dam did not fail. It's just that there was so much water, it just washed over the side channel overflow.
The emphasis is very much on material loss in these photos. After all, compare the images of upended cars in Muscat with photos of people on the sub-continent who also lost what few possessions they had in this year's heavy monsoon rains.
Government has already begun distributing compensation. Saleh Al-Shaibany recently chastised those who claimed government money to replace just a few losses in their homes such as a TV sest, justifying it as claiming their "share of the state revenues" when others had lost everything, with only the clothes they were wearing to call their own.
It would be nice now to see photos of these same areas to show just how the cleanup operation has gone.
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