The military installation in my neighbourhood in Sana'a has been hit three times in less than three weeks, but last night they (Saudi coalition planes) put on a special 2 hour show. I thought they must have really totalled the joint but this morning when I left the house to go to work, I looked up at the artillery battery on the hill and it is fine, even the little huts remain. What on earth were they bombing?
When the bombing starts you get no warning. The planes are up high so you don't hear them, and all of a sudden you are floored as the windows blow open and all dust comes in. The noise shocks you and even if you don't feel scared, your heart rate does race and the adrenaline starts to pump. Last night I was cooking eggs when the first explosion blew open the kitchen window and gave me quite a start. I took my eggs, determined to eat them (such a waste to leave them to burn or go hard) and went into the other room thinking it would be safer, then those windows blew open with dust and an unnerving hot burst of air, so I went into my bedroom, and same again. Screw you bombs I am going to eat my eggs! I ate them but every time an explosion when off my stomach seemed to squeeze and I ended up with a punched in the guts feeling.
I sat there and made dua, listened and repeated the words coming out of the loudspeaker of the masjid - SubhanAllahi wa atoobu ilaik (Glory to Allah and I repent to You). After a while my ears and nose hurt from the pressure of the blasts and I wondered how the neighbours up the street, much closer to the blasts were fairing.
The bombing finally stopped, and everything was silent. I fell into a deep sleep and woke up to more bombs, alhamdulillah they woke me up for qiyam al-lail. My head ached - adrenaline hangover.
The whole neighbourhood was covered with black gritty powder and a few houses sustained damage and a few goats and sheep miscarried, but everyone was fine.
We all went about our daily chores today, kids were back in the street playing - no school! We all are calm, and continuing on as normal. The prices of food skyrocketing. A bag of rice costs me a weeks salary, and we aren't working at the moment because some of the workplaces have closed. Yemenis are very patient but deep down we are all worried what will happen next once the bombing stops.
When the bombing starts you get no warning. The planes are up high so you don't hear them, and all of a sudden you are floored as the windows blow open and all dust comes in. The noise shocks you and even if you don't feel scared, your heart rate does race and the adrenaline starts to pump. Last night I was cooking eggs when the first explosion blew open the kitchen window and gave me quite a start. I took my eggs, determined to eat them (such a waste to leave them to burn or go hard) and went into the other room thinking it would be safer, then those windows blew open with dust and an unnerving hot burst of air, so I went into my bedroom, and same again. Screw you bombs I am going to eat my eggs! I ate them but every time an explosion when off my stomach seemed to squeeze and I ended up with a punched in the guts feeling.
I sat there and made dua, listened and repeated the words coming out of the loudspeaker of the masjid - SubhanAllahi wa atoobu ilaik (Glory to Allah and I repent to You). After a while my ears and nose hurt from the pressure of the blasts and I wondered how the neighbours up the street, much closer to the blasts were fairing.
The bombing finally stopped, and everything was silent. I fell into a deep sleep and woke up to more bombs, alhamdulillah they woke me up for qiyam al-lail. My head ached - adrenaline hangover.
The whole neighbourhood was covered with black gritty powder and a few houses sustained damage and a few goats and sheep miscarried, but everyone was fine.
We all went about our daily chores today, kids were back in the street playing - no school! We all are calm, and continuing on as normal. The prices of food skyrocketing. A bag of rice costs me a weeks salary, and we aren't working at the moment because some of the workplaces have closed. Yemenis are very patient but deep down we are all worried what will happen next once the bombing stops.