<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jeddah_floods" id="mwAas" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2009 Jeddah floods">Jeddah floods</a>: Freak rains swamp the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah" id="mwAaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jeddah">Jeddah</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" id="mwAa0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.