Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 years
Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 years

Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 years | CNN

Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Wednesday.
The rainfall, which flooded streets, uprooted palm trees and shattered building facades, has never been seen in the Middle Eastern nation since records began in 1949. In the popular tourist destination Dubai, flights were canceled, traffic came to a halt and schools closed.
One-hundred millimeters (nearly 4 inches) of rain fell over the course of just 12 hours on Tuesday, according to weather observations at the airport – around what Dubai usually records in an entire year, according to United Nations data.
The rain fell so heavily and so quickly that some motorists were forced to abandon their vehicles as the floodwater rose and roads turned into rivers.
The only good thing about climate change is that nations like the UAE that essentially only exist because of their oil are reaping some of what they have sown.
If you were otherwise dirt poor and you had the opportunity to become rich beyond your dreams selling something that to you is essentially free you wouldn't do it?
It's really easy to be moral from your armchair at home.
I'm not saying that makes it OK, but it's a real moral dilemma and we live in the real world. The UAE not selling oil wouldn't lower the demand for it, they'd still have been flooded, just with no oil money to help fix anything afterwards.
If they didn't sell oil, there wouldn't be a giant, pseudo-city in the desert. Those people would probably build elsewhere, if at all.
Agreed. I dislike these countries because of who they are, not how they got rich.
What makes you think the Sheikhs were dirt poor before the British started pumping oil?
Not like there is unsavoury alliances ad tendencies associated with this story. It is not just them making money.
Don't forget 'offering a tax haven to drug- and other money'
That's like someone with drug addiction blaming his pusher.
No, it's more like someone with a drug addiction blaming Purdue Pharma.
Western civilization only exists because of oil.
Oh good, well we better keep pumping it out of the ground then. It's not like that could spell the end of Western civilization or anything.
Uuuuuh...
I think western civilization and its dominamce may have existed for a little while before crude oil.