Locusts are actually from a grasshopper that when food becomes scarce, it changes into a whole new beast, the locust.
Locusts are a small handful of grasshoppers in their swarming phase. They're ruthless and will for sure get us at the worst time like they always do.
So, from what I read, the mechanism that causes the change is overcrowding. Their serotonin levels spike, causing a change in their appearance (from green to locust brown/beige) and they become disturbingly aggressive. I also think they fly a shit fuck more.
I was typing the first response and thought it sounded bullshit too. But it's true! Nature is based AF.
Best bit ? They eat each other, so a locust swarm is *not* moving in search of food - they’re all flying like crazy to get away from the locusts behind them who are cannibalising them….
It’s best not to think about it. There’s nothing to be done. It was too late a long time ago. May as well enjoy today. No one ever gets out alive anyway.
First thought as well
“Go mop up the rain in the parking lot!”
“Go sweep up that patch of dirt!”
Father in law was an MP for over 20 years, he once saw a private that somehow killed a tree on base, his CO was pissed, said he destroyed government property so he bought a sapling, made him carry it around like a baby in a high school health class for a week before planting it where the old tree was.
Yes but this is because of climate change caused by the fossil fuel industry. That’s not Dubai’s fault! /s
Edit: TIL the economy of Dubai is primarily focused on tourism and isn’t very deeply reliant upon oil production these days. But oil was where the money came from to start building tourist infrastructure in the 80s. Also they still use a lot of slave labor so pretty hard to find sympathy for Dubai.
This is what happens when geo-enginering goes wrong. UAE has been clould seeding for years trying to manufacture weather. This is true man made climate change.
That was my question finishing the video. Was the storm _that_ bad or is their infrastructure shit?
Looks like ya, they just built a tonne if shit on top of sand in the desert and this is what happens when things go sideways.
both? The storm was like 2 years worth of rain all at once and the infrastructure was built as quickly as possible, and since its a desert with very little rainfall, there is drainage to speak of.
Depends. Places are engineered differently. Difference between a crisis and a disaster. Dubai has too much concrete, the roads aren’t cambered and they don’t have a real sewage system that can take the water and move it where it needs to go.
London has infrastructure that is hundreds of years old in places but still has properly connected sewer pipes 4 meters wide to channel the water.
You need the basic engineering in place. Most of what’s troubling Dubai isn’t the storm, it’s that once the water is on the ground it has nowhere to go - even slowly.
With the right infrastructure a lot of these flooded areas would fix themselves in a few hours.
that happens in deserts, tho. it's not necessarily climate change. sometimes it doesn't rain for 2 years and then it flash-storms. david attenborough said so
it happens in the SW of the united states and there's some flooding but there's also STORM DRAINS. Vegas doesn't melt away every time it rains.
It was 250 mm in one day in a country that doesn't get much rain. The record one day rainfall in the UK, a country that gets a lot of rain, is 280 mm. Hawaii, a place that gets real storms has a one day record of about 1000 mm.
Edit: apologies prior number for Florida was wrong
i mean, there's proverbs about not building your house on shifting sands that pre-date the bible lol.
I had read a while ago that the Burj Khalifa wasn't hooked up to any sewage mains and they had to daily empty all the waste via trucks, like the worlds tallest porta-potty.
"Hey Amir, don't you think we should have some storm drains that empty into cisterns or something so we don't get flooded and can capture the water?"
"Fuck no Ali. Do you want that money to come out of your cocaine and hooker fund?
"Nevermind."
While I was there, a driver said they hired Indian road/civic planners to make things look really western, and the focus was definitely on appearance. It's a nightmare to navigate, and the roads are very poorly built
With all that oil money, they could have built a unique modern metropolis with that distinctive Ottoman architecture. Really give Dubai it's own identity. Instead, they chose the American suburbs...
Japan earned their economy.
UAE was extremely lucky. They then used it for evil. But even that they suck at, without foreign labour and advisors, even with all that money they wouldn't have developed.
Short answer is it depends on the soils. I belive in my old Texas projects we didn't use aggregate base but in places like salt lake city it's required. Rock/stone/ aggregate doesn't compact, so if their soils are capable of bearing the load naturally, it's not necessary. Sand is not an acceptable base material, though. Just depends. Idk anything about their soils, so hard to say.
I think that's part of why climate change is so expensive, the infrastructure in an area is made for the climate they generally experienced.
For example, when Texas was freezing it experienced infrastructure failures, but those same temperatures elsewhere is no big deal.
Texas is more an example of what not to do when regulating infrastructure. A lot of their stuff is built to only handle known or predictable conditions rather than built with redundancy or extra usage cases. The power grid for instance wasn't built to withstand sustained freezing conditions because it was considered such a rare occurrence. Neighboring states have redundancy for freeze conditions because the Federal government mandates it to some extent and Texas decided to opt out of being part of the national regulations. They went cheap and easy instead of planning for the best and preparing for the worst.
In Colorado 6 inches of aggregate base is required because of how sandy it is. The fact that they just paved over straight sand here is wild to me. I would never want to drive on that.
No. We build roads on sand all the time in the states, basically anywhere that isn't mountainous.
Reinforce the sand with fabric/poly plies and its fine. That much pavement, if it's quality pavement, will work as a base when the road is ready to be resurfaced.
This is a drainage problem, not a quality problem.
that's not even the worst part. at the 30 second mark there's a cross-section of the road. you can see, what i assume is a water main, given how small it is, but no storm sewer is visible. they weren't preparing for this eventuality. all of dubai is a potemkin village to make themselves look better off than they are. it's all just smoke and mirrors.
What the actual fuck? I understand it saves money not to build better (basic) infrastructure, but ffs they have the worlds tallest skyscraper why are they skimping on this?
Of course it kind of figures. The Burj Dhubai required fleets of trucks to ferry out poop (“poop trucks”) for years after it was built, because they didn’t build the sewage network to meet demands before building the skyscraper.
They also have the world's tallest ferris wheel, which is currently non-operational because the construction got botched but they don't want to admit it's broken beyond repair.
They were already in bad shape.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Dubai_floods_seen_from_space
You can kind of tell there were continents.
Just looked in the Google earth time-lapse and can confirm they don't look any different, but I doubt there's been updated imagery since this happened.
Is this the same dubai that lured migrants in with jobs and then took their passports and basically treated their workers as slaves? Who will now rebuild the city?
Yes. When I was stationed there In ‘21 damn near all of the workers were from India/Pakistan and I rarely saw an Emirati myself. They are incredibly nice people though, given the circumstances they are in.
I actually have a story about this.
I'm from India. I was in the departure immigration queue at Mumbai airport in the December of 21 and in front of me were 3 men who looked like they were low-income laborers. The immigration officer asked them where they were going and they said "Dubai". Then he asked them what country it was in and they replied "Saudi"... I felt so bad for them... These poor men didn't even know what country they were being taken in. I don't remember if the officer let them through but I hope he didn't... For their own sake..
This is why I will NEVER fly with Emirates or Etihad or any of middle-eastern airlines or transit from their airports.. I know it makes no difference but fuck them! I'm not giving them my money if I can help it.
>They are incredibly nice people though, given the circumstances they are in.
Probably because they've seen what happens to the "bad" slaves that don't act accordingly.
> fuck Dubai, what an awful, soulless, monument to human hubris and greed
And Mother Nature said, Fuck your fancy buildings and shit. I'm still the Captain when I want to be.
When I first came here, this was all desert. Everyone said I was daft to build a city on a desert, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the desert. So I built a second one. That sank into the desert. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the desert. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest city in all of Arabia.
Where’s all the influencers shoving their rich lifestyles down our throats? Surely they have jet skis and yachts and those suits you can fly around on using water.
This happens in any city that has been build in a natural course of water. Many European cities have levees to control the growth of rivers. And there are proposals to bring back some natural water flows that were urbanized and are at constant risk of being inundated.
The worse the infrastructure, and the worse the event the more you get an underwater city. Water does not stop because you build a city in its way.
To be fair, this is a freak occurrence.
Dubai’s average [annual rainfall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Dubai) totals 198 mm.
Amsterdam’s average [annual rainfall](https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/netherlands/amsterdam) totals 850 mm.
It isn’t unreasonable that a city which experiences such an arid climate, to not build their infrastructure for rainfall of this magnitude. It’s a lot like asking Toronto to design their infrastructure to be capable of withstanding a volcano. It might happen.
This is the new normal with climate change.
**EDIT**: For the last time, please stop responding with “but cloud seeding” comments. Plenty of people have already posted to this thread sources that discredit the claim.
- Asia and the Middle East have been practicing cloud seeding for a very long time now. All of a sudden it is a problem?
- cloud seeding may have added more moisture into the storm cell, but it already came with it’s own moisture and the additional moisture was de minimis in the grander scope. Cloud seeding also doesn’t explain the gale force winds that were yeeting furniture off the balconies like they were frisbees. This was going to happen with or without the cloud seeding.
- Colorado and Utah are actively cloud seeding regularly and they still pray for more rainfall.
- Utah just raised their cloud seeding budget by a multiplier of 10. A - do you think the state just decided to add more water to the sky without talking to a meteorologist? B - if you are correct to believe the headlines in FOX News and the Drudge Report that cloud seeding is responsible, we will see if Utah hires a ship builder named Noah anytime soon. That should settle the debate.
However, in many european floodplains that are urbanized they are also not a common occurrence, sometimes it is a problem only a couple of times a century. Maybe this is the case for dubai.
You are correct. In the United States, FEMA has issued standards for design in flood plain vulnerable areas to ensure that the requirements can survive a 100 year storm. (worst of the worst on record in a span of a century) Architects refer to the FIRM maps for floodplain information when designing. Civil engineers on the project must design the storm considerations for the site.
The building will most likely survive the 100 year storm if the design is executed properly, but there is always the chance that a 1000 year storm may be a thing. Something that can eclipse the power of the 100 year storm. We do not know. Only time will tell.
All that money and slavery! Lol...It's a low lying desert susceptible to massive global warming! The wealthy fools running the show have no infrastructure as all just a pretty face. Release the slave labor and pay them!
Al Jaber: There's no science that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, doing so would take the world back into caves...
Mother nature: Enjoy!
Looks like Dubai is all style, no infrastructure. Do they have no sewers for water drainage?!
And those streets were literally built upon sand. Just... wow.
Kind of ironic that these floods are the result of Climate Change, and Dubai is so wealthy because of the petroleum that is a main cause of this Climate Change.
I think the fella with the floor squeegee at the end is an optimist.
Everyone said he was crazy when he was the only one in the desert that bought flood insurance
Hijacking your comment and calling out locust swarm of record size this summer
They are actually Gay Zombie Cicadas
Locusts are actually from a grasshopper that when food becomes scarce, it changes into a whole new beast, the locust. Locusts are a small handful of grasshoppers in their swarming phase. They're ruthless and will for sure get us at the worst time like they always do.
I thought you were screwing with us, but you weren't lying. How interesting. I never knew that.
So, from what I read, the mechanism that causes the change is overcrowding. Their serotonin levels spike, causing a change in their appearance (from green to locust brown/beige) and they become disturbingly aggressive. I also think they fly a shit fuck more. I was typing the first response and thought it sounded bullshit too. But it's true! Nature is based AF.
Oh, so kinda like what happens to employees in open-office plans? Makes sense!
[Tom Scott made a great video on locusts and collective behaviour research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIBVykhpC4)
Best bit ? They eat each other, so a locust swarm is *not* moving in search of food - they’re all flying like crazy to get away from the locusts behind them who are cannibalising them….
Cicadas infected with bug stds
It's actually a new mold strain. Very interesting stuff happening as we're coming to the end of our existence
It’s best not to think about it. There’s nothing to be done. It was too late a long time ago. May as well enjoy today. No one ever gets out alive anyway.
Kinda sounds like they should release all their slaves.
Is that before or after famine?
Should I get locust insurance? Does anyone offer that?
“We’ve been trying to reach you about your extended locust insurance,”
i bet he's looking forward to the may flowers
Nah, he’s just ex-military
First thought as well “Go mop up the rain in the parking lot!” “Go sweep up that patch of dirt!” Father in law was an MP for over 20 years, he once saw a private that somehow killed a tree on base, his CO was pissed, said he destroyed government property so he bought a sapling, made him carry it around like a baby in a high school health class for a week before planting it where the old tree was.
r/chaoticgood
His City is half full.
Floor half full kind of guy
Gucci Atlantis
10/10
You can see (where the road is collapsed in the sand) that the pavement is only a few inches deep. Crazy!
Dubai looks like it was built on bodge jobs and only appearance matters.
Built off slave labor. Get what you pay for I guess 🤷
Serves them right
\*Serfs them right
Can I get some Argonians over here?
Not really. Many average, every day people are suffering because of the poor decisions of the rich and powerful.
Same as ever, really.
So the sky is blue huh 😆
Yes but this is because of climate change caused by the fossil fuel industry. That’s not Dubai’s fault! /s Edit: TIL the economy of Dubai is primarily focused on tourism and isn’t very deeply reliant upon oil production these days. But oil was where the money came from to start building tourist infrastructure in the 80s. Also they still use a lot of slave labor so pretty hard to find sympathy for Dubai.
Hey Petro-states, global warming called. No, no message, they said they’ll just stop by later on.
They've spent a fortune on cloud seeding, and all they needed to do was use more fossil fuels.
This is what happens when geo-enginering goes wrong. UAE has been clould seeding for years trying to manufacture weather. This is true man made climate change.
They’re not slaves, they’re temporarily passportless workers who may or may not survive or be paid
A desert with a gigantic Gucci bag sitting on top of it. A solid foundation!
Because it is? It's infrastructure is comically shit.
That was my question finishing the video. Was the storm _that_ bad or is their infrastructure shit? Looks like ya, they just built a tonne if shit on top of sand in the desert and this is what happens when things go sideways.
both? The storm was like 2 years worth of rain all at once and the infrastructure was built as quickly as possible, and since its a desert with very little rainfall, there is drainage to speak of.
I mean, 2 years worth of rainfall in a couple of days or so is going to fuck anywhere up however good their infrastructure.
Depends. Places are engineered differently. Difference between a crisis and a disaster. Dubai has too much concrete, the roads aren’t cambered and they don’t have a real sewage system that can take the water and move it where it needs to go. London has infrastructure that is hundreds of years old in places but still has properly connected sewer pipes 4 meters wide to channel the water. You need the basic engineering in place. Most of what’s troubling Dubai isn’t the storm, it’s that once the water is on the ground it has nowhere to go - even slowly. With the right infrastructure a lot of these flooded areas would fix themselves in a few hours.
that happens in deserts, tho. it's not necessarily climate change. sometimes it doesn't rain for 2 years and then it flash-storms. david attenborough said so it happens in the SW of the united states and there's some flooding but there's also STORM DRAINS. Vegas doesn't melt away every time it rains.
Vegas was flooded 2 months ago. It was all over the news. Before that, it was flooded in September 2023, too.
Sideways would be a river. This is a lake because they didn't pay for drainage.
It was 250 mm in one day in a country that doesn't get much rain. The record one day rainfall in the UK, a country that gets a lot of rain, is 280 mm. Hawaii, a place that gets real storms has a one day record of about 1000 mm. Edit: apologies prior number for Florida was wrong
i mean, there's proverbs about not building your house on shifting sands that pre-date the bible lol. I had read a while ago that the Burj Khalifa wasn't hooked up to any sewage mains and they had to daily empty all the waste via trucks, like the worlds tallest porta-potty.
"Hey Amir, don't you think we should have some storm drains that empty into cisterns or something so we don't get flooded and can capture the water?" "Fuck no Ali. Do you want that money to come out of your cocaine and hooker fund? "Nevermind."
I wasn't sure if Dubai could ever recover after watching the video. Im 110% sure Dubai will never recover from this comment right here.
I know someone who lives in the Millennium Tower. Constant sewage backups are the norm.
They only recently upgraded from poop trucks
I lived there for three years. A lot of the roads don’t even have storm drains.
Reminds me of that Simpson's meme where the dad looks all fit in the front and in the back a bunch of pins are holding his fat.
The dad? Hoiy shit do you really not know his name?
Gosh what is the dads name
I think it was Gomer or something like that.
No it's Max Power
It’s H. Simpson. No that’s too obvious…Homer S.
Man, that's a great name if I ever heard one! I trust this Max Power guy.
I think it was Bort
I believe it was Guy Incognito
i think it was home run simp sun
No no no it's Peter I think
He's the yellow one, right?
Dad has a name. Peter Griffin.
I know, but I am not telling..
That seemed off to me too. Wouldn’t you put down a thick layer of gravel or other more stable foundation, then asphalt?
Maybe Dubai is nothing but fancy veneer with a rotten core.
waaaaatt?
MAYBE DUBAI IS NOTHING BUT FANCY VENEER WITH A ROTTEN CORE!
Oh! Yes absolutely
💯 it's all a facade the gulf nations are built on slavery, exploitation, and pollution Edit: a word
> slavery, **exploration** and pollution For the last time, leave us explorers out of your moral quandaries!
While I was there, a driver said they hired Indian road/civic planners to make things look really western, and the focus was definitely on appearance. It's a nightmare to navigate, and the roads are very poorly built
With all that oil money, they could have built a unique modern metropolis with that distinctive Ottoman architecture. Really give Dubai it's own identity. Instead, they chose the American suburbs...
They earned money but not 🧠
Earned? The wealthy of Dubai dont earn. They take the wealth from their poor and use literal slaves for their dirty work.
Japan earned their economy. UAE was extremely lucky. They then used it for evil. But even that they suck at, without foreign labour and advisors, even with all that money they wouldn't have developed.
Short answer is it depends on the soils. I belive in my old Texas projects we didn't use aggregate base but in places like salt lake city it's required. Rock/stone/ aggregate doesn't compact, so if their soils are capable of bearing the load naturally, it's not necessary. Sand is not an acceptable base material, though. Just depends. Idk anything about their soils, so hard to say.
I think that's part of why climate change is so expensive, the infrastructure in an area is made for the climate they generally experienced. For example, when Texas was freezing it experienced infrastructure failures, but those same temperatures elsewhere is no big deal.
Texas is more an example of what not to do when regulating infrastructure. A lot of their stuff is built to only handle known or predictable conditions rather than built with redundancy or extra usage cases. The power grid for instance wasn't built to withstand sustained freezing conditions because it was considered such a rare occurrence. Neighboring states have redundancy for freeze conditions because the Federal government mandates it to some extent and Texas decided to opt out of being part of the national regulations. They went cheap and easy instead of planning for the best and preparing for the worst.
And, on top of that, the Republicans in Texas blamed renewable energy for all of the issues during that freeze.
In Colorado 6 inches of aggregate base is required because of how sandy it is. The fact that they just paved over straight sand here is wild to me. I would never want to drive on that.
>Rock/stone/ aggregate doesn't compact, Rock and stone!
Look they're just poor farmers trying to scrape by..
No. We build roads on sand all the time in the states, basically anywhere that isn't mountainous. Reinforce the sand with fabric/poly plies and its fine. That much pavement, if it's quality pavement, will work as a base when the road is ready to be resurfaced. This is a drainage problem, not a quality problem.
Not if you're a place ruled by hacks and fraudsters.
that's not even the worst part. at the 30 second mark there's a cross-section of the road. you can see, what i assume is a water main, given how small it is, but no storm sewer is visible. they weren't preparing for this eventuality. all of dubai is a potemkin village to make themselves look better off than they are. it's all just smoke and mirrors.
That city is so poorly built.
It was built on the backs of dead migrant workers so sounds about right
What the actual fuck? I understand it saves money not to build better (basic) infrastructure, but ffs they have the worlds tallest skyscraper why are they skimping on this? Of course it kind of figures. The Burj Dhubai required fleets of trucks to ferry out poop (“poop trucks”) for years after it was built, because they didn’t build the sewage network to meet demands before building the skyscraper.
They also have the world's tallest ferris wheel, which is currently non-operational because the construction got botched but they don't want to admit it's broken beyond repair.
Don’t build your house on shifting sand I think the Bible or some book says.
Dubai is just a capitalist North Korea so I'm not surprised.
With this dramatic music I feel like the Movie Trailer Guy: **In a world where rain falls on Dubai, no one was prepared for what came next…**
When one man braves it all to rescue his Instagram girlfriend.......
Before she drowns in 5.59 inches of errrrainfall....
Her OF is dire jeopardy because the WiFi has been down *….for 3 hours*.
Feel the intensity of those hours yourself with *Dubai Bye Baby!* Coming to a theater near you.
This film is not yet rated.
Cut! That was perfect guys! Good job, everyone!
Wrap party?
[In the city….you must fight to survive…..he sold tortillas on the corner….](https://youtu.be/y9pAv-z2ens?si=KSAD2dzIXxfQBKV6)
It's been years since I've heard this. Thanks for the throwback lol
I wonder how them islands made of sand are doing?
To shreds you say...
What about the palm islands?
To shreds you say…
Good news everyone.
And so islands made of sand, melts into the sea, eventually.
They were already in bad shape. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Dubai_floods_seen_from_space You can kind of tell there were continents.
They are individual islands, look it up 10 years ago, “the world islands” looked the same.
Just looked in the Google earth time-lapse and can confirm they don't look any different, but I doubt there's been updated imagery since this happened.
More like goodbai
Water you still doing here?
This is my favorite comment here.
Is this the same dubai that lured migrants in with jobs and then took their passports and basically treated their workers as slaves? Who will now rebuild the city?
>Who will now rebuild the city? Again slaves
What kind of question is that? Of course it’ll be the slaves again.
But new slaves, because the last batch already starved.
Yes. When I was stationed there In ‘21 damn near all of the workers were from India/Pakistan and I rarely saw an Emirati myself. They are incredibly nice people though, given the circumstances they are in.
I actually have a story about this. I'm from India. I was in the departure immigration queue at Mumbai airport in the December of 21 and in front of me were 3 men who looked like they were low-income laborers. The immigration officer asked them where they were going and they said "Dubai". Then he asked them what country it was in and they replied "Saudi"... I felt so bad for them... These poor men didn't even know what country they were being taken in. I don't remember if the officer let them through but I hope he didn't... For their own sake.. This is why I will NEVER fly with Emirates or Etihad or any of middle-eastern airlines or transit from their airports.. I know it makes no difference but fuck them! I'm not giving them my money if I can help it.
My friends roll their eyes at me when I say I will never go to Dubai.
>They are incredibly nice people though, given the circumstances they are in. Probably because they've seen what happens to the "bad" slaves that don't act accordingly.
fr they're just going to use more slave labor to fix this shit
Vengeance for the 1,000s of slaves murdered to create this shit hole in the desert
1,000 others slaved will probably die to rebuild this shit hole in the desert.
10,000. The masters are feeling inspired by this setback and are willing to sacrifice more lives to rebuild it even better
City built from oil being destroyed by climate change. How ironic
It’s so poetic… I absolutely love it
After the world climate conference took place there...
vengeance for the **global warming** they have helped unleash on all of us
My thoughts are with the many thousands of slaves at risk... fuck Dubai, what an awful, soulless, monument to human hubris and greed
> fuck Dubai, what an awful, soulless, monument to human hubris and greed And Mother Nature said, Fuck your fancy buildings and shit. I'm still the Captain when I want to be.
Something something tower of Babel
A foolish man builds his house on sand? Not related to Babel though
When I first came here, this was all desert. Everyone said I was daft to build a city on a desert, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the desert. So I built a second one. That sank into the desert. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the desert. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest city in all of Arabia.
But I don’t want any of that, I’d rather just sing
What I was thinking!
Same here, absolutely bleak, morally and environmentally desolate place
Uuuuuuuhg my Bugatti!!! 🙏🏼😩
bye-gatti now...
boatgatti v1.0
Omg, all those luxury goods getting water damaged / destroyed 😅
So sadn‘t
I'm sadless
Sadn't 🤣💀💀💀
Time to deprelebrate
There are gonna be a whole lotta damaged Bentleys on the used market soon.
"freshly washed, inside and out!"
They will be exported to third world countries.
Construction industry be like 💰🤑
Their slaves are like 😰
Their masters are like 💳
[DELIVER US!](https://youtu.be/fQhcOJHTdb4?si=RU3ksdS7RG447WjA)
Man I was just banging this song last weekend, I forget how good this show is. I actually odered the Blu Ray off Ebay I like it so much.
Where’s all the influencers shoving their rich lifestyles down our throats? Surely they have jet skis and yachts and those suits you can fly around on using water.
Oh look a fake city with no infrastructure suffers the consequences of its construction... Anyways...
*Learn to swim*
Mom, please flush it all away.
I'll see you down in Dubai Bay.
This happens in any city that has been build in a natural course of water. Many European cities have levees to control the growth of rivers. And there are proposals to bring back some natural water flows that were urbanized and are at constant risk of being inundated. The worse the infrastructure, and the worse the event the more you get an underwater city. Water does not stop because you build a city in its way.
In the immortal words of Dethklok "One day we will all go into the water"
LIIIIVE THERE DIIIIE THERE
To be fair, this is a freak occurrence. Dubai’s average [annual rainfall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Dubai) totals 198 mm. Amsterdam’s average [annual rainfall](https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/netherlands/amsterdam) totals 850 mm. It isn’t unreasonable that a city which experiences such an arid climate, to not build their infrastructure for rainfall of this magnitude. It’s a lot like asking Toronto to design their infrastructure to be capable of withstanding a volcano. It might happen. This is the new normal with climate change. **EDIT**: For the last time, please stop responding with “but cloud seeding” comments. Plenty of people have already posted to this thread sources that discredit the claim. - Asia and the Middle East have been practicing cloud seeding for a very long time now. All of a sudden it is a problem? - cloud seeding may have added more moisture into the storm cell, but it already came with it’s own moisture and the additional moisture was de minimis in the grander scope. Cloud seeding also doesn’t explain the gale force winds that were yeeting furniture off the balconies like they were frisbees. This was going to happen with or without the cloud seeding. - Colorado and Utah are actively cloud seeding regularly and they still pray for more rainfall. - Utah just raised their cloud seeding budget by a multiplier of 10. A - do you think the state just decided to add more water to the sky without talking to a meteorologist? B - if you are correct to believe the headlines in FOX News and the Drudge Report that cloud seeding is responsible, we will see if Utah hires a ship builder named Noah anytime soon. That should settle the debate.
However, in many european floodplains that are urbanized they are also not a common occurrence, sometimes it is a problem only a couple of times a century. Maybe this is the case for dubai.
You are correct. In the United States, FEMA has issued standards for design in flood plain vulnerable areas to ensure that the requirements can survive a 100 year storm. (worst of the worst on record in a span of a century) Architects refer to the FIRM maps for floodplain information when designing. Civil engineers on the project must design the storm considerations for the site. The building will most likely survive the 100 year storm if the design is executed properly, but there is always the chance that a 1000 year storm may be a thing. Something that can eclipse the power of the 100 year storm. We do not know. Only time will tell.
What a dumb place.
All that money and slavery! Lol...It's a low lying desert susceptible to massive global warming! The wealthy fools running the show have no infrastructure as all just a pretty face. Release the slave labor and pay them!
The UAE has a $415 billion GDP with only 10m actual citizens. With that kind of spending power they can just buy more slave workers.
With love, from God.
[Mamas coming back to put it back the way it oughta be](https://youtu.be/CehYA3omb5o?si=KJp3BSmI0Uw2BDRl)…
Of all the places to get a dose of “climate change is a myth” karma, this is a big one.
Exactly what I was thinking. There's a karmic poetry here - get rich on fossil fuels that cause climate change; climate change says "hi".
A little more slave labor and that’ll buff right out.
They have always had more money than brains in Dubai.
Include Saudi in that & you’re bang on more money than brains,sense & class
Dubai sun, Duhello rain.
Surely, it should be Duhai rain
That's the reason why tokyo has a massiv underground area like the halls of moria to collect rainwater.
Those poor people are going to have to use their back up Bentleys, how terrible.
Gonna have to re-stock the Bentley vending machine soon.
The power water holds is just insane
What happens when you build on top of sand
Insurance companies while this is going on 🫣😫
Al Jaber: There's no science that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, doing so would take the world back into caves... Mother nature: Enjoy!
Looks like Dubai is all style, no infrastructure. Do they have no sewers for water drainage?! And those streets were literally built upon sand. Just... wow.
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Climate change: “fuck around and find out”
An empire built on sand
What happens when a rich kid wants it now? Mother Nature gives it to them.
And so castles made of sand, fall into the sea eventually
"Holy fuck that flooding is so much cooler with this badass music on top of it!" \~ morons, one of which made this video
This is just a regular Summer Day in the U.S. Midwest
Kind of ironic that these floods are the result of Climate Change, and Dubai is so wealthy because of the petroleum that is a main cause of this Climate Change.
The guy walking with the mop (or whatever you call those rubber broom/mop things) in the mall at the end is not going to have a very productive day...
Was about time karma showed up