(lives here on the beaches) - In the middle of the war, in which the good of our children risk their lives in the face of the enemy, nature continues its course and as always... man against nature? Nature will win and always! Here... the first serious rain for the 2023-2024 winter season has arrived and with it came trouble.
The photos you will see today were taken in several different places around the city of Haifa:
In Neve Shanan there is heavy damage to property, after a surge of water and mud came from the mountain slope and flooded the street up to a height of 1.20 meters and partially covered cars parked there, according to the testimonies of the residents, who witnessed the event in real time. I arrived to take pictures, after the water level had already dropped. It seems that these cars will not return to the road. In addition, on the same street, lightning infrastructure was damaged and technicians were called to the scene.
Preparing infrastructure for global warming
To deal with nature, we have to think ahead... Global warming causes an increase in the temperature of the sea water and thus the storms will only get worse and the amount of rain floods the streets of the cities in short periods of time. The hourly precipitation is in very large quantities and sometimes even more than the drainage pipes (drains) can contain. The urban infrastructure is collapsing and the damages are great.
◄ At Galia Beach, the water broke out and rose from a pipe buried in the ground and its function was to flow runoff from Kiryat Shmuel and Kiryat Yam, and Kiryat Haim to the sea.
I went on a very rainy morning tour, but still not really "the most" windy
Already early in the morning severe hazards were visible. It is clear and well known that during the first rain of each year, surface runoff water flows into the sea, which also contains various chemical substances and various solids, contaminating the sea water with all the filth that accumulated on the city streets during the long dry season, which lasted for about 7 months. The pollution will remain on our shores for several days and following it the Ministry of Health announces that bathing in the sea is prohibited, as usual.
◄ At Kiryat Haim beach, a strong flow of water from the drainage channel of the surface runoff water, mixed with black-colored filth, gives off a smell reminiscent of fuel.
◄The situation has been going on for a few years on Halutzi Ha'Hatsia Street in the Haifa Bay and from time to time it gets worse...potholes in the road, flooding, and the collapse of the end of the road that the fence doesn't exactly "stop" the collapse.
The sea is very polluted
This is just some of the photos I took on the first day of the rains... and don't get confused, it will be repeated every time there is a heavy rain. For all sea lovers, I would recommend holding back for a few days after the storm, due to the entry of pollutants into the sea.
Dear Moti, thank you for the article, only painful and sad about the sea that is disappearing
Good morning Nira.
You are right, all the uprooting of trees for the benefit of any infrastructure causes damage to the environment, mudslides and floods.
A side effect that you don't see is the fact that once upon a time nutrients from nature would enter the sea from the rains for the benefit of the sea animals and today what reaches the sea...certainly not natural products.
Good morning Ilan.
you are so right.
Part of the flooding, mainly in Hadar and the lower city, is due to the demolition of the green areas in Carmel, turning them into paved or paved areas for parking, instead of the water being absorbed into the ground, they flow into Hadar and the lower city, the drainage openings absorb very little of them, since they are not designed to absorb such a quantity of water
That's right, Ilan
I have years of surveillance on Galia beach including photographs...really unprofessional from the first moment
You need to add the missing figure to the article. They built the Chinese port and the sea level rose by one and a half meters and that's why all the flooding. It wasn't like that before the establishment of the port... it's a shame you don't publish it out of some fear
Hello Yossino
The place of the event in Noah Shanan is in the parking lot in the grove before the underground bridge Buach from the Carmel.
What's left now is just mud.
The level of planning and execution of the roads, including the road drainage systems, is extremely poor. The party dealing with this (Haifa Municipality) is not able to deal with the normal situation, certainly and certainly not able to deal with a large amount of rain in a short period of time. This is what happens when a professional technical matter related to large budgets is entrusted to public servants in the State of Israel in general and Haifa in particular. When the officials manage and carry out operations, they personally manage well financially, and everything else does not work out well at all.
Well done my friend Motty Mendelssohn. Good and blessed week
Better to elect a mayor and deal with these problems before building monuments. Yona Yahav and also Klish are not the answer. If Yahav cared about the city, he would have taken the millions he invested in the Nahal HaGivoriv water pack and invested in improving the infrastructure and that would have reduced the problems.
Yahav and Klish, if elected, will be a disaster for Haifa. Why did we kick Yahav? Because he was good?
The informant about the Neve Shanan neighborhood is lacking.
Which street is this?
Limbo, whatever your name is...
A journalist's role is to report in real time and each reader is entitled to read what suits him.
The comparison is really inappropriate
relative to the series of hurricane typhoons and more,
There were some marginal events for less than a day
And there is no need to panic.