Fujairah escapes further deluge as Kalba floods again

Fujairah: High tides have pushed sea waters over costal defenses flooding parts of Kalba - for the third day in succession- although damage was limited to areas already evacuated.

Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Interior Minister, inspected the temporary shelters and thanked all involved in the emergency relief project.

The damage caused the closure of the main rout linking Kalba to Fujairah meaning a long round trip for motorists through narrow unpaved back-roads.

Evacuated residents, some of whom spent Wednesday in temporary shelters in local schools, were all relocated on Thursday afternoon to the Institute of Applied Technology in Fujairah.

Most will be relocated again to hotel rooms and apartments in Sharjah, after all hotel spaces in Fujairah and Khor Fakkan was fully taken up by earlier evacuees.

A large number of volunteers are working hard to meet the basic demands of the families, especially children and elderly individuals.

A calm start early in the day, in Kalba, was followed by a light drizzle at just after one in the afternoon. At the same time, rising tides one again spilt huge quantities of water on the Kalba Corniche Park, Suhaila and Khor Kalba.