I did not get much sleep last night. I’m up pretty high in the building, so you might think that’s safe, but above me is a hill, and the road coming down from that hill is pretty much at the same level as my bedroom. Maybe a little higher. And although they wouldn’t have any reason in particular to aim at my bedroom window (windows are all the way to the floor), I won’t hold it against them that they probably had very little training with RPG’s.
There was heavy fighting from 10:00 to 2:00 An immense thunderstorm then emptied its rage right above this city part, and sent them all home. Divine intervention. maybe? :)
Unfortunately, at 7 o’clock sharp they were back at it again. As I write this (8:40 A.M. Beirut time), there's heavy shooting in all the streets around me. M16’s, RPG’s and B7’s. A Dutch friend, living next door, used to live in Gaza. She’s more used to the F16 bombs. Infinitely louder of course, but "at least they’d stop after a while. This morning I thought at 7, ‘this is enough.”
It seems Hezbollah is taking over neighborhood after neighborhood. Once they are in charge, the army takes over, moves in, and then the fighting is over. Hamra seems one of the last neighborhoods still ‘resisting the resistance’.
I’m trying to upload an audio clip of last nights shooting, but cannot get it to work. Maybe later.
There was heavy fighting from 10:00 to 2:00 An immense thunderstorm then emptied its rage right above this city part, and sent them all home. Divine intervention. maybe? :)
Unfortunately, at 7 o’clock sharp they were back at it again. As I write this (8:40 A.M. Beirut time), there's heavy shooting in all the streets around me. M16’s, RPG’s and B7’s. A Dutch friend, living next door, used to live in Gaza. She’s more used to the F16 bombs. Infinitely louder of course, but "at least they’d stop after a while. This morning I thought at 7, ‘this is enough.”
It seems Hezbollah is taking over neighborhood after neighborhood. Once they are in charge, the army takes over, moves in, and then the fighting is over. Hamra seems one of the last neighborhoods still ‘resisting the resistance’.
I’m trying to upload an audio clip of last nights shooting, but cannot get it to work. Maybe later.
Jeha's got a good map of the fighting .
4 comments:
Hope you don't need the 3M stuff again Sietske. Keep safe!! Gieneke
Just got a scare... My neighborhood has been very quiet... too quiet. Just now, we heard gunshots, yelling to go inside, and more shooting. Not as bad as what you have had to deal with but the stillness is scary (my dogs are all quiet and hiding under the beds.
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My dog's so deaf, he's been sleeping through everything, doesn't even hear the RPG's anymore.
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i hate it when you dont get enuff sleep because when you wake up you still feel really sleepy and half like a zombie and you really dont feel like getting up
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