Inside Dubai's major cleanup operation after city left underwater by freak rainfall
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Published 2024-04-21
The torrential downpours left an airport submerged underwater, roads at a standstill and homes and businesses filled up with water as the cost of the damages begin to ramp up.
For Dubai, a years worth of rain fell in just 24-hours leaving the city woefully unprepared in infrastructure and flood prevention systems.
With the water only just beginning to clear up, Dubai is finally getting on the move again.
Billionaire businesses are desperate to reopen and recoup their losses from almost 100-hours worth of disruption but the clean up is going to continue to take its toll for a while longer, according to experts.
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All Comments (21)
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Maybe consider investing in some drains and a sewage system rather than just buying cars
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Moral of this story dont mess with nature doh .
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What is the point of havng the biggest, the longest, the highest, the tallest etc etc when you have the lousiest drainage system in the world…
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That water is actually a blessing if they could collect, store it, and purify it like they do with salt water. FRESH water.
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There is nothing freak about this. They “seeded” the cloud for rain. The government should compensate the people for all the damages that the rain caused which came from their negligences.
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Not just storm drainage, Dubai is famous for not having adequate sewerage collection and treatment. Spending 80% of investment for showoff! Further more, the city is located along ocean shoreline with a river flowing thru!!
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Who builds a super city with no emergency drainage system to support it?
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Thanks to the emergency services of Dubai for their quick response and elimination of the flood of the city from heavy rains! Well done just! Thanks to everyone who tried so hard!
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Cloud seeding gone wrong?
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All the money in the World but nowhere for the rain to go unbelievable.
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A city that is RICH.but no drainage?? OMG
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Dubai is a very. Modern Country expensive country Beautiful country but there is no Big River in the the Meddle of the City Can't make Beautiful Country if don't have a Canal BIG River once the Typon Comes the are Floating. Good Experience to Dubai
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No matter what mankind things about their establishments, we all are diminish with respect to the nature.
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In western countries they built Infrastructures first before the buildings while in Dubai they built buildings first before the infrastructures. Infrastructure is more important than the beatiful buildings.
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My mum always told me that “if you haven’t got anything good to say then don’t say anything at all”. 😂😂😂
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Thank you Lord Jesus for the gift of life and blessings to me and my family $18,500 weekly profit Our lord Jesus have lifted up my Life!!!🙏❤️❤️
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Those skyscrapers will soon have structural damage big time.
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‘Centre of now’ drowned in 24 hours by the Almighty. A wake up call!
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I feel for these people. They are obviously not the multibillionaires in fancy high rise penthouses, etc. Hope they're helping out the people who lost so much.❤
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Dubai is prime example of a rich city who fail at urban planning for climate emergency in the future. A lots of city now are preparing for an unexpected future from Arizona to Singapore . We must be prepare as we won't be able to reverse global warming due to human greed
