Haaretz.com - 1/08/13, Yaniv Kubovich
Latest updates: Ayalon, Highway 1 shut down in parts; power outages reported across Tel Aviv; three killed, one seriously injured in accident on Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway; Ayalon River, usually a dry bed, floods beyond capacity.
Israel has been battered this week by its stormiest winter in a decade, with flooding and injuries reported across the country. Tel Aviv saw the climax of this on Tuesday, when floods paralyzed traffic in the city and its environs and sent the municipality into near emergency mode.
The Ayalon River near Tel Aviv, usually a dry bed, flooded beyond capacity as storms overtook central Israel overnight Tuesday. The nearby Ayalon Highway was closed between Glilot Junction and Hashalom Street in both directions over the course of the morning, opening up from Hahalakha Junction northbound just before noon. Highway 1 was closed between Shapirim and Kibbutz Galuyot junctions in the early afternoon, and traffic was halted or congested across Tel Aviv through the morning and afternoon hours.
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