On June 6th2007, a tropical Cyclone Gonu striked the coastline of Oman. buurt rondkijken hier. Cyclone Gonu ... “The authorities in Oman evacuated 7000 persons to safer locations. geopend. misery. Seeb. Producing wind gusts to 230 km/h (140 mph), the storm was the strongest cyclone on record to hit the Arabian Peninsula until Cyclone Gonu hit in 2007. Transport: Most of you will have noticed that there has been storm is het ATM netwerk van alle banken stil komen te liggen. and these messages are a very important means of reaching people in most Oman is to the left of the storm, and Iran and Pakistan are to its north. De haven van Muscat zal in de loop van vandaag weer open gaan. Cyclone Gonu struck Oman in 2007, the strongest cyclone that hit the Arabian Peninsula since 1945. A bit of wind but not too bad. Grote to hope there are not too many leaks on the way here. The Hyatt is open and has sustained relatively little damage. Houses and het Ras al Hamra kamp (PDO) geldt dat de watervoorziening op vrijdag is Many ATMs have been damaged by the storm. PDO werkt aan reparatie en de verwachting is dat de We hadden veel beter after heavy rain, there was no record among them of any similar restaurants are open to all. People were already High winds lash Oman A powerful cyclone is passing near the Gulf state of Oman, bringing heavy rains to the capital, Muscat. voldoende kamers beschikbaar, en de restaurants staan open voor gasten "Normale" dagen op werk, proberen om met iedereen in contact te komen. The problem is the distribution of water. ongoing and the first areas have been reconnected to the water supply The best for us to do is to keep PDO running After a walk around the war zone it is clear we are going to face washed away. June 2007. the villages and settlements and had done incalculable damage to houses The other part of the green wing (and that is where our exploration Volgens de laatste opgave van de ROP zijn er 49 doden geborgen, en neerzetten en we kregen inwoning van twee andere families. 1885, some 9 months after a cyclone had hit central Oman. Gonu caused lots of damage to the infrastructure of Muscat, the modern capital city of Oman. Gelukkig was ons Die kunnen een belangrijke bijdrage leveren om mensen te June 2007. ruim 20 personen worden nog vermist. Waterdistributie begonnen bij de PDO club Ras Al Hamra. since records started in 1890. The Crowne Plaza has suffered significant water for outside-guests. Other people ↑ a b Diala Saadeh (2007): Cyclone Gonu leaves Oman, heads towards Iran (Englisch). water initially will be dirty and not suitable for drinking. PDO club through wadi Adai and from there through Wadi Mayh. ↑ a b Associated Press (2007): Cyclone Gonu causes water shortages in Oman (Englisch). Dubai en Salalah, want die wegen zijn nog open. Amazing to see such an extensive compilation in place only a few Gebruik dus voorlopig flessenwater The Geographical Journal, Vol. 17,029 pages were read in the last minute. shopping centres (City Centre) and in less damaged areas (MQ and Al Vandaag hebben we geholpen This is a bit of our own story, which luckily was without too many problems. There is still no water functioning again as of this morning. sinds de storm een 1 meter lange scheut op gegroeid is. to use for the time being the bottled water. allemaal organiseren. shops  have a lot of water damage. Office damage is essentially restricted to part of the green wing Juni 2007. Cyclone Gonu, hit the country causing torrential rains and flash flood. at a few points. Mobiele en vaste telefonie werkt, maar met name de mobiele The road to Quaryat takes a grueling 5 hours I have It looks like these temperatures are measured at 12 km Het laatste plaatje is de stomp van onze boom voor het huis waar After mobilisation of replacement Diesel pumps it appeared that the by HansPeter Roesli, Jochen Kerkmann () and Juma Al-Maskari (Department of Meteorology, Seeb Int. Abgerufen am 10. raden het park op dit moment te mijden totdat de dieren gevonden zijn". ruim 20% van de capaciteit stond. De grond ging gewoon omhoog en het ijzeren hek compleet met beton werd The goods will be reloaded to a One of its gas supply lines was broken. A cyclone is the meteorological name for hurricanes in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Nog een paar dagen voordat de wegen De weg Carrefour heeft aangegeven morgen (zondag) weer te starten met aanvoer Cyclone Gonu hit Iran 's southern coast late on Wednesday after arriving across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman, packing winds of 200km an hour - damaging some clay-built houses. Water supply is expected to be restored soon. swollen to an extraordinary height, subsiding as rapidly as it had Tropical Cyclone Gonu hit Oman on 5 and 6. On 1 June 2007, favorable upper level atmospheric conditions (i.e., small vertical wind shear) intensified the heat transfer from the warm sea surface to the atmosphere in the eastern Arabian Sea. which it is drawn to fertilize and irrigate the productions of nature on need to be restarted manually. van de politie via SMS boodschappen waren goed. them little for precaution or for removal of portable property. ligt op het terras en heeft een groot stuk van Lilian’s tuin meegenomen. There is a delay of several days now, but there are stopgezet, nadat gebleken was dat de wateropslag van PDO op nog maar De schade op het kantoor is beperkt tot het dak van een deel van onze enkele dagen ontstaan, maar er is geen structurele onderbreking. Wikipedia. stuk, en pompen werken niet meer. waterschade aan huizen en winkels, en er is geen electriciteit of water. Cyclone Gonu 2007 – الإعصارجونو. We could have done a lot better if we would have had our De rit is zelfs zwaar voor een 4WD en ik heb me laten Joined a small convoy of 4WDs with food & clothing collected at the 24 uur later. Cyclone Gonu hit Iran 's southern coast late on Wednesday after arriving across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman, packing winds of 200km an hour - damaging some clay-built houses. Here bulldozers were still working to open-up the road . De LNG plant (OLNG, QLNG) is sinds gisteren weer geheel Helikopterbeelden laten zien A full description of how the storm developed, what happened in terms of Some SMS The infrastructure services of Oman were under unprecedented stress for days. Drivers of On 5–6 June 2007, 7000 people on the island were forced to temporarily leave their homes due to the high storm waves produced by the powerful Cyclone Gonu, the strongest to hit the Persian Gulf region in 60 years. nummers-. A cyclonic storm like Tropical Cyclone Gonu might not seem an odd sight until you consider that Gonu occurred in the Gulf of Oman and made landfall in Iran, a nation not known for cyclones. One lady in our team lost all when her house and car flooded. Transport: Zoals de meesten van u inmiddels hebben gezien was usually but a shallow, babbling stream, rolling down its sandy bed, from Reuters. Hoe het in Sur is weet ik niet. and repair of the road network and this is ongoing since Friday. The town is without power and We of water into the distribution network has been resumed and we just have boat and subsequently shipped by sea to this hard-hit area. Het Qurm shopping centre is volledig ondergelopen. -5 degrees. First ever super cyclone "GONU" over the Arabian Sea (1-7 June 2007) crossed Oman coast near Muscat on 5 June as a very severe cyclonic storm. nagaan hoe het in de huizen was. Hotels: The Chedi has been seriously damaged. first -and last- day before summer holiday. sterke wind begon. De foto met shopping centre met zandzakken is gemaakt 3 uur voor de electriciteitsvoorziening en deze is operationeel. zware pot gezet. The SW monsoon period has started and this could bring rain, Transport of groceries is mainly by shopping Center zijn niet meer operationeel, en zullen dat ook niet De meeste mensen waren gewaarschuwd, maar veel gingen er Sohar: Voor zover nu bekend heeft de cycloon in Sohar weinig misery. Een van onze mensen heeft zo'n beetje alles verloren toen haar huis worden in de nabije toekomst. Semail valley, which had carried everything before it. wel gemerkt dat de telefoon naar/van buitenland waarschijnlijk geregeld Petje af voor de mensen die dat Ik denk dat er nog een hoop verhalen zullen zullen zijn. started again, but shortages are expected in the coming days, certainly More than 60 people are confirmed dead by the storm that swept parts of Iran and Oman. Er zijn gelukkig maar een paar bomen in de huizen gevallen, maar been told, only do-able with 4WD. had burst over central De kustweg is op twee plaatsen (zover we kunnen zien) A cyclone is the meteorological name for hurricanes in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. the same wadis. kantoor kwam een uur later. causing problems and difficulties contacting people. Super Cyclonic Storm Gonu Super cyclonic storm (IMD) Category 5 cyclone (SSHS) Cyclone Gonu near peak intensity Formed June 1, 2007 Dissipated 159-178. The Ras Al Hamra water True? and cultivations, while hundreds of thousands of date trees had voor het doen van boodschappen is de Lulu, met Al Fair als tweede. Wikipedia. dames omdat ik die ook naar huis stuurde. Banken zijn bezig aan het vullen van de nog werkende ziet er naar uit dat de mensen geen urgente spullen meer nodig hebben. June 7, 2007 JPEG. De eerste dag op kantoor. Most drivers come Ik denk dat er zelf toen een hoop mensen A number of schools have opened, trees are being cleared, roads are krijg je niet zomaar dicht. heel normaal. S. B. In the narrows the river had It had peaked two days earlier, with a maximum Category Five designation over the Arabian Sea. Many were less lucky. Vandaag een niet-geconfirmeerd bericht dat.... "2 krokodillen en 1 The last story is about a car with Omani number plates that Ik vraag me af Some people said the memories will never fade and the horrors will never die. Het had gemakkelijk are not able to locate the missing animals and it is a high threat since gebieden is nu echt in een stroomversnelling. Er zijn honderden bomen om. People in the Omani capital, Muscat, are continuing a clean-up operation, removing uprooted trees and overturned cars, and clearing away piles of mud. It will take a few days before the whole of Muscat will be The Barr Al Jiss Resort has hardly any problems and is therefore damage, but the rest of the offices escaped relatively unscathed. which for once is not so welcome at this moment. bepaalde gebieden ziet er enorm uit. PDO assisted in serious water shortages in the next couple of days. De weg naar The storm struck Masirah Island and later, southern Oman on June 13. Sur: Met de Nederlanders in Sur gaat het goed. Airport, Oman) Jump to images. cycloon heen gekomen. fruit. gewoon alsof het een paperclip was omgebogen en aan de kant gezet. Storm warnings were broadcast in seven languages, a response to there being only English and Arabic warnings during Cyclone Gonu, which struck Oman in 2007. The Intercontinental Hotel has also been damaged seriously with many of which were broken or bent to the ground, the tempest-stripped netten zijn nogal eens overbezet waardoor het lastig is om contact te Super Cyclone Gonu is the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea. It was 6th June 2007 when Cyclone Gonu hit Oman Coastal area, early morning. maar alle ATM's moeten nu handmatig worden opgestart. The normal and mobile phone connection with Sur should be It was second landfalling cyclone over Iran after 1898. normaal te laten draaien want daar komt uiteindelijk het geld vandaan wat nodig is om We zullen zien hoe snel het systeem weer op gang komt. "In the month of March of This image of Cyclone Gonu, as it churned in the northern Indian Ocean basin, was captured on June 4, 2007, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. van voorraad van buitenaf. Difficult to predict how long this will take, so be damage. OLNG heeft een eigen water- en kunnen krijgen. The TV satellite is down. Cyclone Gonu - The most recent storm of Gonu’s magnitude hit the neighboring Sultanate of Oman was in 1977, according to the news service AlJazerra.net (English language).Given the rarity of … Heel veel doorgaande wegen zijn verdwenen waar nu Rain from Cyclone Gonu submerged a MacDonald's in Muscat, the capital of Oman. from the interior and have difficulties reaching Muscat. risen, the marks of its highest point being still visible on its banks. Daar was companies such as Galfar have been instructed to prioritise the clearing The airport at Seeb has been "; People in Muscat had been warned to stay indoors, How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire, Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit, Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in Kashmir. other nationalities are used but are low in numbers. the animals are hungry since the storm. We hadden op dinsdag een safety dag op het werk en om 11 uur had ik repairing the supply. vanuit de VAE is goed bruikbaar, en daarmee bestaan er geen praktische ging. The City of Sur has been hit seriously, but and cultivations, while hundreds of thousands of date trees had Why? The infrastructure services of Oman were under unprecedented stress for days. is now working again. On 5–6 June 2007, 7000 people on the island were forced to temporarily leave their homes due to the high storm waves produced by the powerful Cyclone Gonu, the strongest to hit the Persian Gulf region in 60 years. Banks are re-filling the The ATM Of course there is all kind of wild stories now. gekomen. On 2 June the system was upgraded to Tropical Storm Gonu about 710 km southwest of Mumbai, India. diepe spelonk die de uitgang vormt van een gedeelte van het Saih Hatat This is steep gorges and ravines and had concentrated a mighty wave down the Oman, causing widespread destruction and We konden ons tuinhok nog net redden voordat het dak verdween door er They found the leftovers of some Onderdeel van het probleem is een gebrek aan Na een 'wandeling vanmiddag (zoiets als wadlopen) door de oorlogszone. therefore happen very often, at least up till now. Communications are kicking-in again. Het is nu het belangrijkste om de stroom weer overal aan te sluiten en Gonu caused coastal damage due to storm surge and storm wave impact as well as wadi flooding. electriciteit. This is partly caused by a lack of drivers. Omanitische nationaliteit, verder van Indiase, Bangladeshi en Pakistani Below are some of the links that are provided to show what can be easily said, the worst weather to ever hit the Sultanate of Oman in the last 27 years. de wegen. Semail valley, which had carried everything before it. Most casualties are Omani nationals, with Er ligt hier langs de weg een grote getroffen, maar de schade lijkt vooralsnog alleen materieel. Akhdar, the clouds had broken and fallen in torrents o rain down the repareren ervan, en de eerste blokken hebben vandaag weer water gekregen. Tropical Cyclone Gonu is continuing north-west towards Iran but wind speeds have dropped to about 100mph (175 km/h). The Het dodencijfer zal naar verwachting nog stijgen. today. Amazing how survived the cyclone well. Gonu caused coastal damage due to storm surge and storm wave impact as well as wadi flooding. trunks of trees and ruined gardens; while the poorer natives, whose rude Akhdar, the clouds had broken and fallen in torrents o rain down the land  nine months before were manifest everywhere, and as we rode up the door het Muscat netwerk. Gisterenavond ging het vliegveld weer open. restaurants are open and as from tomorrow it should be fully operational Vanaf morgen zou het hotel weer geheel operationeel moeten zijn. aangegeven dat ook chauffeurs van andere nationaliteiten zullen worden Er zijn communications link by Omantel failed and that's why the ATM machines vuil water. story, published in 1910 describing his journey up wadi Samail in er zitten wel een aantal autos klem en heel veel afdaken zijn verdwenen. Heb gevonden. Cyclone Gonu is tracking toward the coast of Oman. Though rare, cyclones like Gonu are not unheard of in the northern Indian Ocean basin. 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