I Live In Hell (Iraq)

We are living in a real hell now; for the past three days there is a severe sandstorm, the sky is red and the air is suffocating.

The heat is unbearable; it reaches 60s and 70s C° in the sun and high 40s in the shade, and since we have a sandstorm we can't open the windows. You can imagine how nice the weather is in a closed room in these temperatures.

Well, I bet you are thinking to yourselves, 'What is the problem? Just turn on the air conditioner or the air cooler!' Well, those are electrical devices, and they need something really rare to operate: the holy electricity. It has been four days without electricity! Well, we had it for two hours during the past 100 hours.

Yes, believe me, in Iraq electricity is holy. I think soon enough there will be a group of people that worship electricity…why not? People used to worship fire, and electricity is more important than fire! I'm not crazy or getting close to be, but read until the end, and you would know what the situation is.

It has been five days and there is no fuel in the gas stations! Yes, five days without a single drop of fuel. That means I can't operate my home generator, and once the fuel in the car is finished, I'll have to stay at home and screw working. The queue for the gas station is about six kilometers long with two rows, and that means everything in Iraq will stop working pretty soon. Even food will disappear from the markets if this continues.