{"id":69952,"date":"2025-01-06T21:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69952"},"modified":"2025-01-06T21:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:45:52","slug":"mecca-underwater-cars-are-swept-away-and-streets-become-rivers-in-saudi-holy-city-as-arid-country-is-hit-with-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/mecca-underwater-cars-are-swept-away-and-streets-become-rivers-in-saudi-holy-city-as-arid-country-is-hit-with-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecca underwater: Cars are swept away and streets become rivers in Saudi holy city as arid country is hit with flash floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/06\/15\/93790201-14255387-image-a-7_1736177713269.jpg\" alt=\"Submerged cars are pictured on a flooded road after heavy rains in Mecca on January 6, 2025\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huge swathes of\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-170ab420-cc42-11ef-a406-bf3f06695b04\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/saudi_arabia\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/span> including the holy city of Mecca are suffering torrential downpours amid a brutal storm that has transformed streets into rivers and swept cars away.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14255387\/Mecca-underwater-Cars-swept-away-streets-rivers-Saudi-holy-city-arid-country-hit-flash-floods.html\">\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Huge swathes of\u00a0Saudi Arabia including the holy city of Mecca are suffering torrential downpours amid a brutal storm that has transformed streets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mecca-under-water.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69954,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952\/revisions\/69954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}