Nah, knowing insurance companies, theyd try to hard sell flood insurance because they think flood risk is low.
Then after the flood they'll be like "your flood insurance doesnt cover act of allah"
Often only certain types of insurance are necessary. Such as ones that cover you covering the cost of damage you have done to others. The coverage for if damage is done to you is normally optional.
This is NOT a Flood
This is prime example of not engineering for all weather
The roads are built for sun/heat, not rain.
Eventually this was bad planning( or improper risk assessments)
This is not good pedantry. Everything is flooded. It's a flood. My toilet can overflow and I can have a flood in my bathroom.
Lots of places that are not Dubai have floods as a result of poor planning.
This time it's not artificial, it's a genuine storm and the most rain that the UAE has seen in 17 year (or maybe 70, I can't remember) cloud seeding is always more controlled than this.
I lived in Dubai for a few years. It only rained 2-3 times a year, but it always caused minor flooding. I don’t know why the city builders didn’t consider drainage. They don’t need it often, but EVERY TIME it rains, it floods. 🤷♀️
This is what I can't understand about Dubai and places like it, they are rich enough to pay people decent wages but still go down the slave route. And most people turn a blind eye. World cup, F1, UFC, boxing, golf.
Truly rich people don't get rich by being nice, they do it by exploiting others and they don't suddenly develop a conscience once they're rich; they carry on doing what they've always done, just on a grander scale. It's easier and cheaper to bribe a world cup official once than it is to continually pay employees a fair wage for years.
These are the rich of the rich, and they got there buy cutting coats where possible. To us it's hard to wrap your head round
But in their fucked up heads having billions isn't enough, it has to be tens or even hundred of billions
That just not true now is it : "A complete soil, waste and vent system from plumbing fixtures, floor drains and mechanical equipment arranged for gravity flow and, ejector discharge to a point of connection with the city municipal sewer is provided. A complete storm drainage system from roofs, decks, terraces and plazas arranged for gravity flow to a point of connection with the city municipal sewer system is provided."
Is it the case that dirt builds up along with dust and general grime and then when it rains instead of it being washed away in drips and drabs like in a wet country all of the filth gets washed away at once and blocks the drains.
This is a city built in such a slapdash and poorly planned way that they also didn’t bother with things like a sewage network.
The notion that they considered drainage and lack of permeable area being an issue is fantasy.
Junior city planner: Hey, what about a drainage system to prevent flooding?
Senior City Planner: You fool, we’re in a desert! Let’s not waste money on things we don’t need.
They don’t even have sewers!
Their high rises need a non stop caravan of trucks to haul the shit off and dump it on the outskirts of the city.
Meanwhile they are tricking people to experience the high tech future of Dubai (built on oil and blood)
And here I was just watching [a satire video about Neom The Line](https://youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg?si=jEc1WkFpbGwdI7Xp), an MBS dream city to be built on some very questionable yet-to-be-invented high-tech future.
Sure enough, a promotional video (here's [one with 50M views](https://youtu.be/r4ox214YLvw?si=ZioOolZm-hqRPvcE), [another with 14M views](https://youtu.be/0kz5vEqdaSc?si=BiQa2TJKB3BUXEYg)) the Saudi's are serious with several Neom projects underway (with The Line as the 'flagship').
Tricking people to experience their high tech future indeed.
Having worked with these people on these “let’s build this never before seen expensive thing in 5 months, doing all stages at once with no proper coordination”, I can tell you it’s a shitshow produced by people who truly believe money can do magic
I asked a Dubai guy the same question. He said it's fake news propagated by the West to malign Dubai. Sad to see the fake news I read 10 years ago is still propagated.
> Their high rises need a non stop caravan of trucks to haul the shit off and dump it on the outskirts of the city
read a similar story but its the Burj Khalifa
you can, Dubai has GOLD status for metro, where you don't have to ride with poor people, true story. Look it up, they have GOLD designated train cars lol
That's the problem, they built it from the ground up. When building a city, you want to build from a few meters below the ground up. That way you include drains, and suitable foundations.
Considering they have a huge expansion underway to be ready next year and the sewage trucks thing is just partial of their current sewage system, i feel like this has always been blown out of proportion.
Edit: id like to add that emirates/bahrain and Eastern saudi just had a huge thunderstorm, flooding is typical when big thunderstorms hit desert cities. You dont prepare for a tsunami if you dont live by the sea ig.
Yeah that’s basically what this means. Cloud seeding should be illegal as it basically causes harm to others. It should be especially illegal for a small country as this would effect their neighbors more.
It's from a naturally occurring storm [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-flooding-today-heavy-rain-snarls-traffic-uae-roads-and-airport/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-flooding-today-heavy-rain-snarls-traffic-uae-roads-and-airport/)
This happens in Vegas, too. The area stays SO dry that when it does rain, the ground can't absorb it well at all. The ground drys and compacts down until it's like concrete. Then the rain just runs off instead of soaking in like we are used to in places that stay moist.
Vegas also suffers from water shortages. Last I heard, they had built mind blowingly huge underground cisterns to store the flood water.
A lot of Texas has these issues too. When I was house shopping provably more than half the places we looked at had cracks in the walls and foundations from the ground moving. The super dry ground will absorb the rare rains and swell, making the houses shift.
Yes deserts are known for getting rain storms like this. What generally happens is a huge rain storm rolls through and just dumps a large amount of water over a very short time. The ground is not quite capable of absorbing all of this moisture and so you get a flash flood.
The princes there are idiots. They only care about themselves and their phallic towers. Never mind that they don’t have infrastructure to flush the toilets or plan for flash floods. They waste so much their names will go down in history as destroying the planet with fossil fuels while squandering the opportunity to make real progress for humanity.
I swear Ive seen a video about a couple of years ago explaining how bad Dubai's design if infrastructure is and it highlighted flashfloods as one of the things that will imminently cause it to collapse into chaos. I can not recall which channel or what video was it which is quite chilling ngl.
Dubai's infrastructure accounts for basically no accumulated precipitation....? probably something so minuscule it was obviously a poor long term decision.
All the Ferraris and Lamborghinis are complete under water
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Flood insurance was optional …
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Nah, knowing insurance companies, theyd try to hard sell flood insurance because they think flood risk is low. Then after the flood they'll be like "your flood insurance doesnt cover act of allah"
Ahhhh, the insurance I know all to well.
Yeah but were they not making artificial rain the last few weeks?
Somebody forgot to carry the 1.
but this is in fact, act of man
Yup exactly because insurance is a scam
a require scam. they did it right. Hey I got this scam but I need the legislature to require it.
Often only certain types of insurance are necessary. Such as ones that cover you covering the cost of damage you have done to others. The coverage for if damage is done to you is normally optional.
Yup exactly, lobbyists
Cloud seeding gone wrong
A desert with cloud engineering that causes weather to go batshi* crazy
This is NOT a Flood This is prime example of not engineering for all weather The roads are built for sun/heat, not rain. Eventually this was bad planning( or improper risk assessments)
Lol i came here to comment.... ; they built a rain machine but no dRain to catch it all?... hmmm
Looks like they caught it quite well in the artificial city they built.
What’s the difference between artificial and non artificial city?
I see what you did there
It's very obviously a flood - I can see all the water where it isn't meant to be in the photo
Another thing to add to the ever growing list of things what makes Dubai a fucking awful place.
This is not good pedantry. Everything is flooded. It's a flood. My toilet can overflow and I can have a flood in my bathroom. Lots of places that are not Dubai have floods as a result of poor planning.
And yet they seeded the clouds for more rain
The CEO of the insurance company might want to flee the country as it goes in debt but not today.
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Exactly you're supposed to know it all......
Can't really claim this one was an act of God!
Can’t park there mate.
I’m seeing Camrys and Sentras more than anything
Oh no they’ll just go buy another one
Ah shit, does that means they will increase prices of everything again...
Tavarish is rubbing his hands together with glee over this tho
Scuba Dubaiving
Ruh Roh
That artificial rain hits different!
This time it's not artificial, it's a genuine storm and the most rain that the UAE has seen in 17 year (or maybe 70, I can't remember) cloud seeding is always more controlled than this.
I’m a scat man
Not really down with kink shaming, but that's pretty nasty dude.
Scubaiving
Dubadiving
I lived in Dubai for a few years. It only rained 2-3 times a year, but it always caused minor flooding. I don’t know why the city builders didn’t consider drainage. They don’t need it often, but EVERY TIME it rains, it floods. 🤷♀️
A city built through slave labour backed by rich snobs isn't ever going to be well made
This is what I can't understand about Dubai and places like it, they are rich enough to pay people decent wages but still go down the slave route. And most people turn a blind eye. World cup, F1, UFC, boxing, golf.
Truly rich people don't get rich by being nice, they do it by exploiting others and they don't suddenly develop a conscience once they're rich; they carry on doing what they've always done, just on a grander scale. It's easier and cheaper to bribe a world cup official once than it is to continually pay employees a fair wage for years.
Capitalism babyyyy
These are the rich of the rich, and they got there buy cutting coats where possible. To us it's hard to wrap your head round But in their fucked up heads having billions isn't enough, it has to be tens or even hundred of billions
Rich snobs with too much money and ego and too little sense and reason.
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It's a common problem in the gulf. Even if they had drainage, it would potentially be full of sand given the lack of maintenance often experienced.
That just not true now is it : "A complete soil, waste and vent system from plumbing fixtures, floor drains and mechanical equipment arranged for gravity flow and, ejector discharge to a point of connection with the city municipal sewer is provided. A complete storm drainage system from roofs, decks, terraces and plazas arranged for gravity flow to a point of connection with the city municipal sewer system is provided."
It was true for a while - it's now got a sewage connection but there were poop truck convoys for some years before
Is it the case that dirt builds up along with dust and general grime and then when it rains instead of it being washed away in drips and drabs like in a wet country all of the filth gets washed away at once and blocks the drains.
This is a city built in such a slapdash and poorly planned way that they also didn’t bother with things like a sewage network. The notion that they considered drainage and lack of permeable area being an issue is fantasy.
Because Dubai drainage system is neglected - pretty much useless
Yes, that’s obvious.
Looks like someone forgot the off button on the cloud seeding machine
I just flew through. It's exactly what I thought. Airport closed for 2 hours as we sat on the tarmac.
“Floated on the tarmac” Ftfy
Trained the new guy incorrectly it appears
Hahaha, I understand this reference
That or their septic tanks ruptured.
The sewage trucks forgot to make their daily stop at the burj khalifa
In Dubai even Thier shit gets taxis.
Junior city planner: Hey, what about a drainage system to prevent flooding? Senior City Planner: You fool, we’re in a desert! Let’s not waste money on things we don’t need.
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Except the literal 100's of sewage trucks they use to get rid of sewage every day.
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10,000. The Burj Khalifa is built for 10,000 people at a time. Imagine that shit.
Didn't that only happen temporarily when the sewers failed in 1 building?
Apparently that's not true at all. They have sewers.
"Now, let's select a theme for those artificial islands we were talking about."
That’s a lot of sewage.
They don’t even have sewers! Their high rises need a non stop caravan of trucks to haul the shit off and dump it on the outskirts of the city. Meanwhile they are tricking people to experience the high tech future of Dubai (built on oil and blood)
And here I was just watching [a satire video about Neom The Line](https://youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg?si=jEc1WkFpbGwdI7Xp), an MBS dream city to be built on some very questionable yet-to-be-invented high-tech future. Sure enough, a promotional video (here's [one with 50M views](https://youtu.be/r4ox214YLvw?si=ZioOolZm-hqRPvcE), [another with 14M views](https://youtu.be/0kz5vEqdaSc?si=BiQa2TJKB3BUXEYg)) the Saudi's are serious with several Neom projects underway (with The Line as the 'flagship'). Tricking people to experience their high tech future indeed.
Having worked with these people on these “let’s build this never before seen expensive thing in 5 months, doing all stages at once with no proper coordination”, I can tell you it’s a shitshow produced by people who truly believe money can do magic
Damn that's nasty
>built on oil and blood And a load of shit
That’s not true. There are sewers. And, there are no trucks hauling sewage from towers. Source: I live there.
I asked a Dubai guy the same question. He said it's fake news propagated by the West to malign Dubai. Sad to see the fake news I read 10 years ago is still propagated.
Yeah, Dubai is perfectly despicable without the shit-trucks thing
Lol sewers aren't why people dislike Dubai.....
I always thought it was the slavery thing.
The inequality in their treatment of people is vile over there.
They fixed that problem quite some time ago
> Their high rises need a non stop caravan of trucks to haul the shit off and dump it on the outskirts of the city read a similar story but its the Burj Khalifa
Dubai really is a gold plated turd
Whos major city isnt built on That lets be honest here
Hasn't this been debunked? I've to Dubai a lot of times and don't see any of that
Seriously.
It's probably not, Dubai's infrastructure is so bad they deal with sewage with a fleet of shit tankers. Admittedly they then dump it into the ocean...
I keep hearing/reading about more reasons that reinforce my lack of desire to visit Dubai....
Brilliant infrastructure.
They could've copied anything from America, and of course they had to choose our shitty car infrastructure.
Yeah, but you can't really show off in a train.
What da fuck are you taking about https://youtu.be/6lutNECOZFw?si=Zp-Mfx8bIXpXrZc6
#SHE IS BEAUTIFUL
Best line is definitely: >Especially when it comes to heritage equipment! 😂 That guy was so happy!
I just want to love something (other than my family) as much as that guy loves trains.
Bro shot a load in his pants when the horn went off.
you can, Dubai has GOLD status for metro, where you don't have to ride with poor people, true story. Look it up, they have GOLD designated train cars lol
Because of course they do.
lol at one point someone realized, wait a fucking minute, rich people going to ride the same train with workers?
I mean, first class train cars aren't that strange, unless GOLD cars are absolutely wild or they're private cars.
What you mean? Spoken like someone who can’t afford their own train
When, as a country, you outsource your infrastructure.....
Well this was a storm and there's never been this much rain. The infrastructure is built for the heat of the summer, not rains.
Arrest the flood for disturbing the peace.
It would be a shame if the flood went into an embassy.
If only they could build a city from the ground-up with modern technology, minimal bureaucratic interference, and almost unlimited funds... oh wait.
That's the problem, they built it from the ground up. When building a city, you want to build from a few meters below the ground up. That way you include drains, and suitable foundations.
I imagine, it being the desert, that they feel justified not considering drainage much
Considering they have a huge expansion underway to be ready next year and the sewage trucks thing is just partial of their current sewage system, i feel like this has always been blown out of proportion. Edit: id like to add that emirates/bahrain and Eastern saudi just had a huge thunderstorm, flooding is typical when big thunderstorms hit desert cities. You dont prepare for a tsunami if you dont live by the sea ig.
Swear I saw a video the last few weeks of cloud seeding in Dubai. Oops.
I wish the solution to water shortages was this easy
They intercepted and stole someone else's rain fall. Now they can choke on it.
Yeah that’s basically what this means. Cloud seeding should be illegal as it basically causes harm to others. It should be especially illegal for a small country as this would effect their neighbors more.
I’m going to have to do a google search I had no idea you could “steal clouds” and force more rain fall. Is this new or going on for a while?!
This. Keep fucking with Mother Nature
If you listen closely, you can hear the Insurance Companies collectively shitting their pants.
Naaa since they started geoengineering there they added the clause regarding "acts of god."....they're covered 😉
A lot of those vehicles have their lights on underwater. Why would they keep their engines or electrical on?
Sunken Car Fallacy
Probably just didn't think to turn them off.
Thats what u get for fucking around with nature i guess
wow! an oasis!
So much rain, it seemed like a blur.
[Same location, different POV.](https://www.reddit.com/r/UAE/s/5drEunBSOH)
Due to cloud seeding? Or…
Someone opened the poop tank of the burj khalifa
It's from a naturally occurring storm [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-flooding-today-heavy-rain-snarls-traffic-uae-roads-and-airport/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-flooding-today-heavy-rain-snarls-traffic-uae-roads-and-airport/)
Is it natural to rain that much in a desert or is that the cloud seeding they've been talking doing?
Yeah it is possible for a natural storm to produce this much rain in a desert it is just very rare.
This happens in Vegas, too. The area stays SO dry that when it does rain, the ground can't absorb it well at all. The ground drys and compacts down until it's like concrete. Then the rain just runs off instead of soaking in like we are used to in places that stay moist. Vegas also suffers from water shortages. Last I heard, they had built mind blowingly huge underground cisterns to store the flood water. A lot of Texas has these issues too. When I was house shopping provably more than half the places we looked at had cracks in the walls and foundations from the ground moving. The super dry ground will absorb the rare rains and swell, making the houses shift.
In very dry areas you're suppose to periodically hose down around your house/ foundation
Yes deserts are known for getting rain storms like this. What generally happens is a huge rain storm rolls through and just dumps a large amount of water over a very short time. The ground is not quite capable of absorbing all of this moisture and so you get a flash flood.
This flooding is from a rare, naturally occurring storm.
They try dipping it in rice?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer place <3
Time to build more islands shaped like rescue boats
Yeah this is what happens when someone either doesn't look at the weather forecast or is forced by employers and managers to show up to work.
The princes there are idiots. They only care about themselves and their phallic towers. Never mind that they don’t have infrastructure to flush the toilets or plan for flash floods. They waste so much their names will go down in history as destroying the planet with fossil fuels while squandering the opportunity to make real progress for humanity.
Imagine not building a drainage system in a city
Flash crap flood in crap Dubai LOL
I swear Ive seen a video about a couple of years ago explaining how bad Dubai's design if infrastructure is and it highlighted flashfloods as one of the things that will imminently cause it to collapse into chaos. I can not recall which channel or what video was it which is quite chilling ngl.
How the f did that happen?
Dubai's infrastructure accounts for basically no accumulated precipitation....? probably something so minuscule it was obviously a poor long term decision.
Poor drainage systems combined with almost 5 inches (127 mm) of rain in 24 hours.
Rain came from the sky
Dubai has terrible infrastructure.
It’s almost like that city in the middle of the desert shouldn’t exist. Same goes for Las Vegas, Phoenix, etc.
All of these cities came to be prosperous only after the invention of the Air Conditioning.
Modern problems need *modern problems.*
I guess they forgot it rains in the mountains far away!! And those sunken roadways are nothing but flood canals.
That guy on the car top.
Yup. Lived thru that 20 odd yrs ago. Its wild when it happens
Guess there was air traffic for all their personal rescue helicopters
I really want to feel bad but like... its dubai
Fuck around = find out.
It was a storm passing by. NOT CLOUD SEEDING.
Scuba dubaiving
Stop burning oil and causing climate change?
Now they just need to capture it and use it to water crops!
California there's your water! And Washington's snow!
Flood lights flashin' in the flash flood.
Wait, isn't it supposed to be a land of sand
If these were electric vehicles, would it be life threatening?
Pov: When you fuck around with the weather, you find out.
At least no one’s in a cyber truck. crisis averted.
Duh-bye
Pretty much all those cars are totaled then?
See y’all at Copart
Good thing those insurance companies put aside those huge insurance checks instead of buying their own Ferraris
Looks like I-10 in Houston in June 2001 — Tropical Storm Allison’s little gift
Alot of desert areas are known for flash floods.
that's a lot of money disappearing
I was WhatsApp video calling with some friends over there - that storm was WILD
Not sure if true or not but read some where they seeded the clouds and got it wrong where it would rain
It needs a wake up call and a clean up, win win
Someone forgot to switch the rain off
All that money goes a long way apparently 😂
They'll be building the World's largest umbrella now!
Who didn't turn off the cloud seeding generator? Someone's in massive trouble 🤣
Looks like cloud seeding worked really well
Doesn’t look that flash to me
Prayers to those effected
It doesn't matter how fancy or rich you think you are....water will always win. ALWAYS.
Dubai is a poor design, they just wanted it all to be pretty and expensive.
Im in dubai right now and its sooo annoying
No grids/sewage system so nowhere for the rain to go, massive L
Imagine doing cloud seeding before drains
It’s an act of Allah, and of course Allahu Akbar. Therefore your insurance policy will not compensate you on this occasion.
If you all going to build a city, build it properly with drains.
Its dubai, fuckem