"Storm lashes Middle East, sinks ship" by Associated Press / December 13, 2010
BEIRUT — Heavy rains and fierce winds pummeled countries across the Middle East over the weekend, sinking a ship off Israel’s coast, and killing a woman in Lebanon whose car was crushed when a tree fell on it.
The storm brought unusually cold temperatures, below freezing in some spots. It ended weeks of unseasonably warm and dry weather that contributed to dozens of forest fires in Lebanon and helped feed a massive blaze in Israel that destroyed thousands of acres of forest.
How come we never saw a word about the Lebanese fires?
Related: Israel Plays With Fire and Gets Burned
Also see: Palestinian firefighters kept from ceremony
What a bunch of ungrateful bastards!
No wonder they have such a piss-poor relationship with the rest of the world.
It whipped up sandstorms in Jordan and Egypt, which closed its largest Mediterranean port.
Related: Middle East Elections
In Syria, snow blanketed the streets of Damascus for the first time this winter. Schools sent students home early, and children ventured outside to play in the streets....
:-)
Heavy rains flooded the streets in Beirut and snow forced road closures in remote mountain towns in Lebanon....
Snow? In Lebanon and Syria?
The fart-mi$ter$ fooley ju$t went pffffffffftt!
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