Saudi Arabia | Rare photos and special details about the year of destruction and the great flood of Najd in 1376 AH

The weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - rare pictures of the great flood of Najd, or what is known as the year of destruction in 1376 AH, pictures that immortalized a painful memory that the residents of Najd lived through in days that had passed and passed in their condition, so they remained in the memory of the sheikhs and the elderly who remember them and tell us about them in detail.

A simple life and mud houses housed the residents of Najd, who could not stand the continuation of the rains that lasted for 58 days of continuous rain in the year of destruction that raided many regions of the Arabian Peninsula, so the regions of Qassim, Sudir and Buraidah were the most affected, as the rain left nothing of the houses Or shops or mosques, but their mud walls were shaken, so that the destruction occurred on a large scale that was not erased from memory.

This forced people to flee to the deserts and mountains, terrified of what was happening after their homes were demolished, spreading the earth, covering the sky amidst a great uproar in which the screams of children mixed with the wailing of women.

The days passed, and the rains stopped only for hours, then came again for two consecutive months, during which the sun was seen only in two days, which increased the sense of cold and increased rain and destruction.

The result was that three thousand houses were destroyed in Buraidah alone as a result of the torrential rains, and from here it was called the year of destruction.

The following photos were documented by parents for their children to remain an eternal memory and a permanent testimony to the year of destruction.