A wide wave of anger swept social media platforms in Egypt, after the losses caused by heavy rains in Alexandria and some governorates yesterday, Friday, which resulted in the death of 6 people and the drowning of many streets and houses.
Activists on social media circulated photos and videos showing the streets and squares of Alexandria soaked in rain water, in a scene that has been repeated a lot in recent years;
As a result of the continued deterioration of the infrastructure, despite the fact that the authority claims to spend huge sums amounting to 4 trillion pounds to repair it.
#Alexandria swims in rain water!
Infrastructure 👇
God suffices us and He is the best agent 😢 pic.twitter.com/1qEqXLNjR0
— Mohamed Taha 2 (@Mohamed09125489) November 20, 2020
Egypt has the Nile River and the Sporting River #Alexandria pic.twitter.com/pxmISYNTX3
— Ahmed Abu Arab (@Ahmed_Abo_Arab) November 20, 2020
Distress and ignore
While the governor and his assistants appeared in the main streets and high-end areas to get rid of the torrential waters that inundated them, clips were published showing the distress of Egyptian citizens in popular neighborhoods in Alexandria after their homes and shops drowned, amid ignoring officials.
Tweeters pointed out that the wave of bad weather comes at a known date in advance, without officials offering any radical solutions, other than just talking about the unexpected amount of rain.
No one feels the problems of the infrastructure, like the one who works in it, and I know how it is. It is dilapidated, and there is no clear and real maintenance plan, and that it is walking in the cover of our Lord.
Before I joined the current party, I dreamed that I would amend the infrastructure, but when I saw the reality, I was seriously shocked
and the amendment needed a lot of
work #Alexandria
#rain
— Ahmed Shawky (@ASAY082) November 20, 2020
# Alexandria
country behaved little mesh knowing Mer in one of the
most important cities and months , and
every year they work ... surprised Bzmtk de country Httkdm one step 😠😡😠 pic.twitter.com/xLgkwpM4dD
- Islam Jaber (@islamjaber77) November 20, 2020
# Alexandria
I am I do not understand means Mr. # Mhafez_axanderah
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uniforms BRDO McCann Sayb people
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was Mpehdelh country and Maatlmich beaches ,
but what Hajmnah after Macal Hamlhm what 😒
— The owner of Al Asma 🇪🇬 (@Gamila_____7000) November 20, 2020
Tweeters chose another angle to comment on the torrents, as they denounced the waste of these large quantities of water without plans by state agencies to benefit from it.
The activists considered that the good rain that people were waiting for turned, along with corruption in Egypt, into ruin, death and drowning.
Rain in any country is considered a great blessing from our Lord, especially that it comes at the same annual time and in the same regular quantities, except in Egypt.
— khaled salah (@khaleds13650361) November 20, 2020
And the question that baffled 100 million Egyptians remains,
why do these backward people waste rainwater and do not benefit from it while building sewage treatment and seawater desalination plants? https://t.co/z0zH7QBYJV#Matt_Omar #Alexandria
— Haytham Abokhalil Haitham Abu Khalil (@haythamabokhal1) November 20, 2020
In all the world, rain is better, except that we have ruined houses #Alexandria https://t.co/ZFIabsVMKu
- Amr Bey I (@3_mR_02) November 20, 2020
Rain alone is enough to reveal the extent of the corruption of the military regime in Egypt
The rain that we lived our lives with, we consider it good and sustenance, they turned it with their corruption into drowning and collapse of houses, electrocution and death
Military rule.. death and ruin of homes
.# Alexandria pic.twitter.com/FchqvKbQtG
- Islam Akl (@islamakel) November 20, 2020
Bridges or swallows?
A number of activists compared President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s interest in the projects of establishing the new administrative capital and building a large number of bridges, in contrast to ignoring urgent infrastructure problems such as sewage and rainwater drainage, although it is a chronic problem that kills dozens of innocent people annually.
Activists recalled Sisi's November 2019 statement that the state had spent more than 4 trillion Egyptian pounds (about $250 billion) on the country's infrastructure, without showing any tangible improvement.
News in Masrawy newspaper titled
"The infrastructure in the administrative capital
defeats
rain and climatic changes"
= medicine and Egypt that is drowning, uncle?!
Don't drown and don't go mad in 60's pic.twitter.com/z0JZir78vD
- The Egyptian ✪ (@EL___mesry) November 20, 2020
The two children in the picture (Ali and Hamza) died today with their grandmother after the house collapsed on them due to the torrential rains in #Alexandria 😥 Was
n't the improvement of the life conditions that people lived in a million times more important than the palaces of
#Sisi
in which the country's wealth and religion was lost for 100 years to come? #Alexandria_Batgarg pic.twitter.com/mQ2OdOc0uV
— Massad Al-Barbari |
Albarbary (@Albarbary6) November 20, 2020
# Alexandria
each year has identified A corruption, neglect and lying and lack of
interest in the
lives and property of
Naas
Fein Fein infrastructure right services Btakhaddo All Wlosha in Voltaire flexes and mil
Every farmer has new roads and bridges, and
even this is the time of winter, what projects are done, just boil eggs pic.twitter.com/5qnybrJz1i
— Mahmoud Guevara (@gevoo07) November 20, 2020
What happens in
#Alexandria
annually proves
that the 4 trillion pounds that were said to have been paid for the infrastructure are completely untrue.
— 🇵🇸 Omran 🇪🇬 (@mahmoudomran29) November 20, 2020
And when you see the streets submerged in water and turned into lakes due to some rain, remember that Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced that he spent 4 trillion EGP on infrastructure!# Alexandria https://t.co/hTFYR3dwMf
- Selim Azzouz (@selimazouz1) November 20, 2020
Tweeters indicated that the regime had no intention of solving this problem, under the pretext of the high cost, in reference to the statements of a Cabinet spokesman in October 2019, that the cost of establishing a rain drainage network in Greater Cairo only requires 300 billion pounds, which is not commensurate with With heavy rain falling in only a day or two throughout the year, he said.
The government: in order to create a drainage network, I need 300 billion pounds, and schools and hospitals are the first for them
- okay, Pasha, so sacrifice the houses that fall and the people who electrify the streets and the country that is drowning, and I spend on education and health, which is what they said, how many years #Alexandria
— Abdullah Nadi (@Abdullahnadi99) November 20, 2020
Justifications and scarecrows
Some commentators on the communication sites mocked the officials' justifications whenever a similar disaster occurred, recalling the authority's announcement in 2015 of the arrest of what it described as a terrorist organization to fill the sewers of Alexandria.
While others ruled out that those responsible for this repeated disaster will be held accountable, and they expected that the authority would be satisfied with flimsy justifications and scarecrows that absolve accountability for failure, while the measures do not go beyond giving vacations and urging citizens to stay in their homes and not go out, without there being a radical solution to this. the crisis.
#Alexandria #Matt_Omar,
Governor of Alexandria, are you waiting for what came down in the sentence of the brothers, they blocked the drains and drained the drain
— Mahmoud saifeldin (@Mahmoudsaifeld1) November 20, 2020
What happens in #Sisi_Egypt is that if it happened in any civilized country, governments would resign, investigations would be opened, and cases and trials would be filed.
However, the guarantor in Egypt is a scarecrow: Brotherhood / terrorism / Qatar / Turkey / Hamas / evil people / fourth generation wars
It is the guarantor that absolves you from liability for any failure at any time and anywhere
— ΛLΛFΛПDI (@AL_AFAND_DI) November 20, 2020
The governor appeals to the people of #Alexandria to leave their homes except for necessity, and this is their home now 😒#Alexandria_Sinking pic.twitter.com/cRnlgiW75F
- Free Egyptian Girl (@Pent4Egy25) November 20, 2020