Making a camera rain cover

So the past few days have been "difficult"

1. George W made a visit to the UAE and was set to travel to Dubai by road. As such there was a total block on many of the roads throwing Dubai into chaos. The upside was that the Government declared a national holiday to ease the pain!!! Who said Mr Bush has never had a positive impact on Middle East foreign policy?

2. Downside was that it rained...and rained and rained. Not really an issue if you live in the UK or Amazon rain forest but in January, and it total, we expect ~14mm of rain and we got that with a bit to spare over the past few days. Now as we usually get so little rain

• Its a complete shock to the majority of the population and signals "The Day after Tomorrow" and other Armageddon type predictions
  
• Not all of the roads have drains or sufficient capacity to take away flood water so I was effectively living on island today
  
• Roofing that is tested for sun cover is suddenly found inadequate for water

I wanted to capture some of the "disaster" on camera as I stuck my head out of the door. Buying a proper rain cover for a camera in Dubai is like buying a raincoat...you only need it once a year and for trips abroad. So time to improvise...go to http://www.mediafire.com/?8egteviboii to download my instructions on making a quick, cheap, but effective rain cover to protect your precious electronics.

I didn't have much time to take many shots - but you can see a few at http://wardyuae.zenfolio.com/ under the "Dubai Winter" folder. You'll also find versions of the images used to make the PDF in the "Protector" folder.