Friday Sabbath Excitement

In Oman the Holy Day is Friday. We align our Sabbath to match theirs. COVID numbers are still really high here, although they have stopped climbing as of this month. So, we don't meet in person as a congregation but continue with Zoom. After church we decided to try and drive to a nice beach for a walk. As we got into the mountains, the rain started coming down harder and harder until we actually had to stop and turn around. It's incredible to watch things begin to flow and flood. It happens so fast here. Every mountain becomes a waterfall which shouldn't surprise me. It's 90%rock here. As relieved as I was to get home without getting stuck, it was worth the stress and excitement. Seeing Oman as one big waterfall was thrilling. The locals were stopping to watch, jumping out and sticking their heads in the waterfalls, and also trying not to flood their cars haha. It was no joke. We were gone less than an hour and there were deeply flooded houses and roads.


You can't really tell from the pictures but there was so much water coming through here. Roads are not well equipped for water and you can drive through inches of water even going downhill.



Our house didn't flood but we were close. This section was a shallow pool and after the water was gone theres so much sand leftover that we still need to clean up.
 

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