Lebanon gets hit by a modest-strength storm… we get damages equivalent to those of a US hurricane. We just have stellar infrastructure.

Where do we begin?

1. Highways that are not even flat so water gathers on their sides, causing your car to buckle out of nowhere because we don’t even have highway lighting to see the puddles everywhere.
2. Water that gets cut even during storms… because of shortages in water.
3. Internet that turns drastically slow according to the following equation: internet = 1/rain. Add in a constant for recuperation in the days that follow and the formula becomes: internet = C/rain.
4. Water drain that do anything but drain water. They might as well be a good place for future vegetative growth with all the compost they contain.
5. Airports that turn to swamps. Airplanes that land here are so futuristic they can even float.
6. Road walls collapse.
7. Entire roads collapse.
8. Buildings crumble because of the water seeping in.
9. Traffic that pops out of nowhere the moment it rains.
10. Potholes that get uncovered because their filling of stones and secondhand asphalt got swept away with the rain.

And this is barely  the tip of the iceberg. I wonder if the country were to ever be hit by a storm slightly stronger than your Lebanese average, what would happen? My predication is that scientists would start flocking in for a live reproduction of a Noah scenario. We are that unique.

Here are a few pictures of the first major storm in this winter season. Absolutely breathtaking.

Pictures from this Facebook page.