Today,or yesterday since its after 12 already, was our weekly friday ride for
KUWAIT RIDERS, as usual, we gathered in Marina at 3.30pm, stopped for briefing about the ride plan, then we rolled out, the weather was nice, I was the safety officer in the ride, it was all good till we reached the road of "Sabiya" and we started to notice the sand cloud forming in the horizon, we didnt really care till we saw it covering the sun on our left side, and it was getting darker, I drove fast to the road captain and gave him the signal of "heads up left" to check the frightning view, we cancelled the ride and headed back to the city, all the way to 360 mall, it was our only destination we could think about that time. But by the time we were there, the sand storm already got us, and filled up the whole parking all the way to the basement, and got inside the mall, it was scary to see that, it felt like it was a war zone, all the people were panicking, and trying to escape, but even that wasnt a good idea, one of our friends started to have a hard time breathing, since he was asthmatic, so I had to get the mall medics to help. I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw the number of people were inside that tiny room there, and the paramedics cant keep up with everybody, although they were doing a great job, it took us over two hours just to get our friend to recover from his condition, and finally we got on our bikes and scattered each one to his house, no formation what so ever, I stayed with my friend though "the asthmatic one"since his car was at my house, and el7emdilla we arrived safely, it was one of the toughest rides I ever had.
I got few pics to show what we went through, but honestly, I cant say it was somehow an adventure. WOW
The previous two pics were taken in the shelter of 360 mall. evac point, what kills me is there was one girl between all the coughing elders, crying kids, and panicking people, asked for a bottle of water and tissue, she go the tissue wet and started to clean her "white shoes" and fixing her make up!!!! I mean seriously
The previous two pics were taken in the shelter of 360 mall. evac point, what kills me is there was one girl between all the coughing elders, crying kids, and panicking people, asked for a bottle of water and tissue, she go the tissue wet and started to clean her "white shoes" and fixing her make up!!!! I mean seriously
Sorry the pics not clear, but it was taken on 160km/h speed.....we were chased by the storm!! hehe
The white truck next to me, nice guy..he actually invited us to his house, offered to have us all til the storm calm down
