Changelog

The town page now opens with a colored-pencil drawing of the two Pigeon Rocks standing in the sea off the Corniche at Raouché.

Earthquakes recorded near Beirut lately, from the US Geological Survey's global feed, with the fault story behind them — Beirut sits on the Dead Sea Transform, which has shaken and once drowned the city. It is a record of what already happened, never a prediction. It also carries the one thing that matters most on a coast with no siren: if the shaking is long or strong near the sea, move to higher ground.

A neighbour-reported board of what the private basics cost right now — trucked water by the 1,000 litres, a drinking-water jug, a cooking-gas cylinder. Sign in and add what you last paid; the board shows the going median once a few reports arrive, so no single number can throw it off. These prices have no official source, so this is residents keeping each other informed.

A calculator for the real cost of a month in Beirut. Enter what you actually pay — rent, the generator, trucked and drinking water, gas, internet, school, food — and it adds them up in fresh dollars. It also totals separately the part that goes to replacing what the state should provide: the generator, the water, the school fees. Your numbers stay in your browser; nothing is saved or sent, and each typical range is sourced.

Enter your monthly generator bill to see whether rooftop solar could beat it — the rough size, cost, yearly saving and how long until it pays for itself. Plain arithmetic, no sales pitch.

The Generator Bill Checker was showing a tariff that turned out to be about a year out of date. It now uses the Ministry of Energy and Water's most recent published monthly ceiling (May 2026); the fixed monthly fees are unchanged. The ministry resets the tariff every month, so always check the latest before you compare.

Emergency, water, power and phone numbers in one place, with tappable numbers.

Enter your amperage and the kilowatt-hours you used to see what the bill should be at this month's official maximum — and check whether your operator is charging over it.

Beirut is now live, starting with two tools built around the city's loudest daily costs.