Kabul Skyline Kabul Afghanistan, November 5, 2015 At first glance this is like any other third world city: noisy, dirty, chaotic. The traffic is a moving amalgam of cars, people, and pack animals, a high-speed game of bumper cars where anything goes as long as you honk first. It makes rush hour traffic in most modern cities seem a veritable oasis of calm and serenity. Power outages are the norm. Flashlights always at the ready since you never know when you might be plunged into darkness. Kabul has no underground sewer system. Waste drains in the open, concrete lined ditches alongside the roads. It only rains about 12 inches here, mostly in the winter. In the summer and fall the drainage...
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