“Beirut is sinking” … and an official talk on “making videos”



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The statement justified what happened in the streets, saying that "The percentage of the amount of rain that fell, according to the Meteorological Department of the Rafic Hariri International Airport, reached 30 mm north of Beirut and reached Jounieh in less than an hour, while it was estimated in the southern area from the airport to the Khaldeh zone by 12 mm, plus the density of water. In some areas adjacent to the international highway, flowing streams have caused the direction of the highway in the Jounieh area.".

The statement emphasized that "The Ministry of Workshops in case of emergency and preparation on the roads".

This statement unleashed ridicule from tweeters, who considered the ministry "You live in another world"And he republished the same statement every year in an attempt to justify the massive failure with the onset of winter.".

Others have said that "This authority is not entrusted with anything due to its fragility, bankruptcy and insistence on not taking responsibility".

Some have pointed out that "The Lebanese authorities have shirked their direct or indirect responsibility for the disastrous explosion in Beirut, so how can they take any responsibility in dealing with the flooding in the streets?".

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Video footage shows Beirut, Choueifat and Khaldeh International Airport, south of Beirut, and the road at Jal el Dib, Nahr El Kalb and Jounieh, north of the capital, submerged in water amid a traffic jam. sweltering and stuck cars.

On Mount Lebanon, the Bekaa, in the east of the country, and several cities in the north of Lebanon, the scene looked like a flood of water sweeping the streets.

The flooding of streets caused public outrage on social networks, as users considered that what is happening is repeated every year without accountability, and that the state “has failed in the treatment of wastewater and cleaning of culverts and lanes before each rain. “

Tweeters took to the # Lebanon_Sinking hashtag and posted images from various Lebanese regions showing the size of the official “annual” deficit.

For its part, the Information Office of the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation commented that some social networks have taken videos, which the statement described as “vehicle and old”, due to the flooding of rainwater in most public roads and tunnels.

“Technical workshops dedicated to stormwater drainage on international highways have opened several channels and projects dedicated to stormwater drainage,” the media office statement read.

The statement justified what happened on the streets by saying that, according to the Meteorological Department of the Rafic Hariri International Airport, it reached 30 mm in the north of Beirut and reached Jounieh in less than an hour, while it was estimated in the south from the airport to the Khalde region. B 12 mm, in addition to the density of the water in some areas adjacent to the international highway, causing torrents that run towards the highway in the Jounieh area.

The statement highlighted that “the Ministry workshops are in a state of emergency and prepared on the roads.”

This statement provoked the mockery of tweeters, who considered that the ministry “lives in another world”, and reissues the same statement every year in an attempt to justify the great failure with the start of the winter season.

Others said: “This authority is not entrusted with anything because of its fragility, bankruptcy and insistence on not assuming responsibilities.”

Some pointed out that “the authorities in Lebanon have shirked their direct or indirect responsibility for the disastrous explosion in Beirut, so how can they take some responsibility in dealing with the flooding in the streets?”



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