A Blog by the Editor of The Middle East Journal

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Monday, December 13, 2010

More on the Big Storm

The toll of the big, bizarre storms pounding the Middle East over the weekend is rising and the mess created creating major disruptions.

Royal Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas was pounded about off Egypt (seemingly a bit far from the Caribbean); an ABC report:



Zeinobia has a collection of pictures and videos of Alexandria, of which here's one example:



I can't embed the pics here but Haaretz has a slide show of winter storm pictures.

And here's a satellite view from today after the worst of the storms) via The weather channel:


Strange days.

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