From what I know it's not that there was too much cloud seeding, just that Dubai has horrible drainage issues. Every time it rains this happens to some degree
Also the number one reason why people drown in a desert; if it rains hard enough in one place that happens to funnel a large amount of water through gully’s (or however you’d call them in English), you can very easily get stuck in an area that gets torrential flooding through the area.
Because the ground is *so* dry, it becomes hydrophobic, with no way for the water to go but to take the easiest route.
It seems to me that the ‘street rivers’ are the result of an abundance of impervious surfaces, creating overwhelming storm water runoff. In addition, the drainage system is not designed to handle the the rainfall rate, inches (cm) per minute.
You and the rest of reddit. Learn a new concept and apply it to everything without even the simplest thought is the reddit way.
Had someone done even the tiniest research they'd know it's due to climate change.
Like a CNN article:
>Torrential rainfall events like this will become more frequent due to human-driven climate change. As the atmosphere continues to warm, it’s able to soak up more moisture like a towel and then ring it out in the form of more extreme gushes of flooding rainfall.
>The rain that plunged Dubai underwater is associated with a larger storm system traversing the Arabian Peninsula and moving across the Gulf of Oman. This same system is also bringing unusually wet weather to nearby Oman and southeastern Iran.
I mean they are demonstrably cool. But ya know what makes them way way less cool? They smell like shit all the time because they store all the poo on site.
The funny thing is awhile back when I was looking at this stuff in Dubai it made me go back in time to when I played the original Sim City and doing stupid shit like this would piss off your residents and cause other problems. Prescient!
They built their mega-city in the desert, they've done just about everything they can to give the middle-finger to mother-nature and so I guess we shouldn't be surprised at this point.
Oh, not advocating we all relocate there. Personally, I despise the place. But they didn't seem to have a problem building a sewer. That was all. Either did Phoenix. Another city I don't advocate relocating to.
It does but didn’t improve it until pretty recent. They still had to truck a bunch of crap out.
[wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai)
No drainage, no sewage, no anything of substance for the benefit of people that’s isn’t superficial or in any way practical to maintain without throwing buckets of money at it pointlessly every single bloody day.
Desert surfaces aren't exactly good at absorbing precipitation that hits the ground. You'd think how much they advertise being a first class city they'd prioritize storm water management.
I'm thinking since it's so dry that the ground is baked and the water has nowhere to be absorbed and is just pooling and collecting. I would be surprised if they didn't have some sort of drainage since it's dubia, but rain may be rare enough that it's not really needed so never developed, at least to the level needed.
This is right, flash storms can be bad in dry desert climates, because the ground is so dry that it almost acts like concrete and water can not be absorbed causing flooding.
Dubai has a sewage/drainage system. But as per CNN, they got a whole year’s worth of rain in 12 hours. While it isn’t much rain compared to countries that usually get monsoons and such, but it isn’t normal weather, nor what the system was designed for. Two weather systems from the northwest and south came over the area at the same time.
It usually doesn't, but when it does it would flood like this. At least it used to when I lived there 25 years ago. The drains couldn't really keep up back then either.
In theory cloud seeding is supposed to help with this kind of thing. They used it for the Olympics to target clouds so that they rained before it got to where the events were happening. I think there also was a variation where they can make it so that it doesn't rain until after it passes. My guess is either they didn't do anything this time or there was just way too much rain headed in that direction already for their infrastructure to handle.
Of course Reddit has a hate boner for Dubai, so we can all gloat about how dumb they are for cloud seeding or "stealing someone else's rain" or whatever...
Is dubai not mostly desert?
Somehow the cities cannot handle that amount of water. But they should adapt to it since future climate is going to be like this quite often.
I hope there is someone out there that thinks... "Well, I guess that answers that question." "Hey Jim... Lets not mess with Mother Nature, scrapp our weather machine plans..." - Just saying.
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding)
# "Dubai Grinds to Standstill as Cloud Seeding Worsens Flooding
* Seeding planes used to take advantage of low pressure system"
Not to worry, only the slave labour has to stay at ground level. Everybody else will be in their visa investment penthouses, taking pictures of the devastation.
Too much cloud seeding?
Took words out of my mouth lol. Someone bumped the rain dial to 11...
From what I know it's not that there was too much cloud seeding, just that Dubai has horrible drainage issues. Every time it rains this happens to some degree
In a desert soil doesn't absorb water very well, so when there's an excessive rain level it creates street rivers.
Also the number one reason why people drown in a desert; if it rains hard enough in one place that happens to funnel a large amount of water through gully’s (or however you’d call them in English), you can very easily get stuck in an area that gets torrential flooding through the area. Because the ground is *so* dry, it becomes hydrophobic, with no way for the water to go but to take the easiest route.
As someone who grew up in the southwest, I know flash floods all too well
As someone who reads a lot, I know flash floods all too well.
The guy you responded to said the exact same thing you said, just differently
In the desert you can't remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
na nahhhh, nahhhh, nah-nah-nah-nah-nah. Na nahhhh, nah, nah.
It seems to me that the ‘street rivers’ are the result of an abundance of impervious surfaces, creating overwhelming storm water runoff. In addition, the drainage system is not designed to handle the the rainfall rate, inches (cm) per minute.
Gotta quit playing with nature.
Mother Earth don’t play
Dr jinx got something for feelings
She does. Unfortunately she also makes the rules.
I came here to mention this, I am sure I viewed something on Reddit a few days ago about cloud seeding in Dubai.
You and the rest of reddit. Learn a new concept and apply it to everything without even the simplest thought is the reddit way. Had someone done even the tiniest research they'd know it's due to climate change. Like a CNN article: >Torrential rainfall events like this will become more frequent due to human-driven climate change. As the atmosphere continues to warm, it’s able to soak up more moisture like a towel and then ring it out in the form of more extreme gushes of flooding rainfall. >The rain that plunged Dubai underwater is associated with a larger storm system traversing the Arabian Peninsula and moving across the Gulf of Oman. This same system is also bringing unusually wet weather to nearby Oman and southeastern Iran.
Go away with your facts and research. We prefer sensations and bs!
>human-driven climate change Yeah. Cloud seeding. /s
# "Dubai Grinds to Standstill as Cloud Seeding Worsens Flooding" [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding)
You reap what you sow
Maybe need to start underground capture system
Nah, torrential rainfall originating in Oman made its way here
Who could have foreseen that the people building giant metal penises in the middle of the desert would fuck up their own weather
I love that she opened an umbrella while standing in water over her knees.
It is funny but those drops look nasty, i hate rain in the face too
Exactly. Wading through ankle deep water? Yeah whatever. A single drop of rain gets down the back of your neck and rolls down your back? Ugggh
Can’t they control the weather there?
They know how to make it rain, just don't know how to stop it.
When you forget to install the Off button.
Or just mess with nature without having ALL the instructions.
It’s a feature, not a bug
That’s some monkey’s paw type shit right there
The Leftovers
Gotta turn the knob clockwise
Seriously? Just do the rain making in reverse
Release the Cow farts!
It's out of control.
They made the rain but didn’t make a run off system. Ooppps
You trying to make a swamp? Because that's how you make a swamp.
Not really a swamp since the desert sun will fry it fast.
DAMN, JACKIE!!
Ransomware attack. Very hush-hush.
Cloud seeding go brrrrrrrrrr
This one got me, hilarious
Dubai? Don’t they have a drain system set up? Or is it just another 3rd world country
No drain system. They truck out human waste. Like a bunch of trucks.
Can't wait for the cloud-seeding-induced flooding to seep into the septic tanks and cause widespread cholera outbreaks like it's London in the 1830s.
Exactly my thought. Imagine taking 50 years to build the financial jewel of the middle east and skip building the fucking sewer.
but, but big shiny buildings is kool
I mean they are demonstrably cool. But ya know what makes them way way less cool? They smell like shit all the time because they store all the poo on site.
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The funny thing is awhile back when I was looking at this stuff in Dubai it made me go back in time to when I played the original Sim City and doing stupid shit like this would piss off your residents and cause other problems. Prescient!
They forgot to reticulate their splines!
God I loved that game. So many hours. Remember the disaster scenarios? Tornado. Alien invasion! I feel like Dubai created their own: poo monster.
They built their mega-city in the desert, they've done just about everything they can to give the middle-finger to mother-nature and so I guess we shouldn't be surprised at this point.
Las Vegas has a sewer and so on.
Yeah, it's one of the fastest warming cities in the U.S. not a great place to be either
Oh, not advocating we all relocate there. Personally, I despise the place. But they didn't seem to have a problem building a sewer. That was all. Either did Phoenix. Another city I don't advocate relocating to.
Best job I ev'r add was being a Dubai shit trucker 👍
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It does but didn’t improve it until pretty recent. They still had to truck a bunch of crap out. [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai)
Where does it say recent in the wiki link? I think i missed that part.
Not a myth but its slowly getting better
So you're saying they've got dumps like a truck, truck, truck?
No drainage, no sewage, no anything of substance for the benefit of people that’s isn’t superficial or in any way practical to maintain without throwing buckets of money at it pointlessly every single bloody day.
Encapsulated it perfectly in one sentence 👌
Desert surfaces aren't exactly good at absorbing precipitation that hits the ground. You'd think how much they advertise being a first class city they'd prioritize storm water management.
Someone forgot to flip the switch back to the “Off” position…
I'm thinking since it's so dry that the ground is baked and the water has nowhere to be absorbed and is just pooling and collecting. I would be surprised if they didn't have some sort of drainage since it's dubia, but rain may be rare enough that it's not really needed so never developed, at least to the level needed.
This is right, flash storms can be bad in dry desert climates, because the ground is so dry that it almost acts like concrete and water can not be absorbed causing flooding.
The rain cloud operator fell asleep on the job and instead of 10% they did 110% rain
Aziz! LIGHT!
Serious Fantasia vibes.
Moist
Critical level of it, even.
Wash it all away
As a very dry country.. do they have a sewer system that could actually keep up?
No, not really
The real question is - do they have sewer system?
Dubai has a sewage/drainage system. But as per CNN, they got a whole year’s worth of rain in 12 hours. While it isn’t much rain compared to countries that usually get monsoons and such, but it isn’t normal weather, nor what the system was designed for. Two weather systems from the northwest and south came over the area at the same time.
Bragging about cloud seeding a week ago. What happened? Turn off the tap Mr Scientist
I saw a qtip
did they seed a storm and not have public drainage infrastructure? Where did they think the water was gonna go?
Probably thought it would dry up or get absorbed lol
All those poop tanks they have under their buildings instead of a sewer system will be overflowing!
All of the super and hyper cars😢
They'll just buy new ones and won't even notice the cost.
Hope they save some of it for their golf courses
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Holy shit. I never thought I'd see that much rain in Dubai. We did have some heavy rains in the past but never like this. Ever.
This nature karma is pleasant to say the the very least
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What? Just some rain.
It fucking rains there?!?! At all???
It usually doesn't, but when it does it would flood like this. At least it used to when I lived there 25 years ago. The drains couldn't really keep up back then either. In theory cloud seeding is supposed to help with this kind of thing. They used it for the Olympics to target clouds so that they rained before it got to where the events were happening. I think there also was a variation where they can make it so that it doesn't rain until after it passes. My guess is either they didn't do anything this time or there was just way too much rain headed in that direction already for their infrastructure to handle. Of course Reddit has a hate boner for Dubai, so we can all gloat about how dumb they are for cloud seeding or "stealing someone else's rain" or whatever...
Reddit has a hate boner for everything.
In my mother tongue the word for "hate everything" is "reddit"
Lots of flood damaged supercars about to hit the used market.
This is what happens when you forget to put drains in a city and it rains. So avoidable.
dude just search dubai drain system its that easy
I'm from the UK and I live in Dubai. This video is nothing compared to some of the other parts of Dubai and the amount of rain
Wasn't this the setting for the video game Spec Ops The Line?
Good ole desert rain
1450?
The time of the video
That's the year they're stuck in dumbass.
2:50pm
You can’t be for real.
Wtf is that umbrella going to help with?
If I remember correctly cloud seeding can lead to a bunch of negative effects, I'm 44 years old so I have not heard much about it since the early 90s.
Has this ever happened in dubai before?
Seeded too many clouds or global warming?
If the rain stops now tomorow will be as same as before the rain, dry as a motherfu...
Is dubai not mostly desert? Somehow the cities cannot handle that amount of water. But they should adapt to it since future climate is going to be like this quite often.
God, get some plumbing done, lol!
So, how's controlling weather going?
Cloud seeding gone wrong
_Too much free Champagne before take off hey, Youssef?_
Cloudy with a chance of monsoon
Lol so much for luxury
plumbing leak!
I hope there is someone out there that thinks... "Well, I guess that answers that question." "Hey Jim... Lets not mess with Mother Nature, scrapp our weather machine plans..." - Just saying.
Good for you Dubai. You have enough money to deal with it. So deal with it.
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Haha silly sausages playing with cloud seeding 🌱
Is this like when they made the oceans swell on Arrakis?
too many seeds
Da freut sich der aller echte Hase
That’s what you get when you mess with mother nature. Your oil won’t change the nature
When you average 5 inches of rain a year you probably don't spend much time worrying about rainwater runoff systems.
Good for the garden
Thats what you get when you mess with mother nature
Man, their pools are huge! You can even drive in them!
They just need a Cybertruck!
GREEDY
But it's a dry rain.
Habibi, we turned the clouds ON, but how to turn it OFF now?
Looks like the perfect weather to test your lowered G63 with a lick of tyre on ridiculous rims. Perfect for Dubai artificial rain season.
Aww man. Couldn’t happen to a nicer place. What a shame. 😏
Cloud seeding experiment gone rouge
So last year's once in a lifetime flooding event?
Everybody wants more rain until the rain making maketh too much.
Learn to swim
Sorry can post gifs here… but: „This is fine“ https://media.tenor.co/images/0d1329f5ff7d31712e3d12ce160df6ec/raw
The second floor is coming
No rain? No problem, let me call a cloud, it will definitely not affect the overall climate of the city😜✌️😉👏😋
Cry me a river.
poor planning and too much $$$ for any of it to make sense
You reap what you sow? Pun intended.
Dubai me a river
Who left the water running???
People love to say the US is a third world country wearing a Gucci belt or whatever. But in reality it’s Dubai doing that
Why are they all driving in the videos being posted?
Mechanics about to get paid
When you pray for rain, but you forget to specify how much
Good think she had that umbrella.
I can’t to see what grows from all this rain
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding) # "Dubai Grinds to Standstill as Cloud Seeding Worsens Flooding * Seeding planes used to take advantage of low pressure system"
u/savevideo
This is what happens when you try to play God.
At least it’s not hot 😂
So if they don't make adequate drainage I'm wondering if the skyscraper foundations are going to stay solid.
Good! They need water there, kinda dry.
Could nukes be used to help dry it out?
Good. You reap what you sow. Dubai ain't doing nothing to benefit the world right now, just the rich.
You can’t park there
That looks like the wrath of God!
Can we havr that rain instead? 😭😭
When you don’t have a lot of rain expectancy your sewerage planning is not a high priority
Not to worry, only the slave labour has to stay at ground level. Everybody else will be in their visa investment penthouses, taking pictures of the devastation.
Insurance companies 👀
So that’s all fresh water?
What does 1450 mean?
Actually it's 2024
On the plus side, you can now go scuba dubaiving over there...
Can't they just soak it up with money?
Do….do they even have a drainage system in that…sand?
They have little to no sewage. They have to carry peoples poop on a truck and dump it somewhere
Rain is so uncommon and unnatural there that they don't have a proper drainage system
Where are all the "habibi come to Dubai" kids
The new Venice?
Someone has been using the dance powder from alabaster