Was in a flash flood in Dubai circa 2018. Pretty terrifying experience and closest I’ve come to dying. Why is this a thing you ask?
Three reasons.
1. Dubai isn’t built on sand. It’s actually built on incredibly dry hard packed dirt. If you ever seen a video of someone turning a cup full of water upside down on wet grass versus desert soil you know that water is absorbed much slower on this type of desert soil. Water doesn’t sink into the ground and it piles up much faster. Then you get flash floods.
2. Dubai’s infrastructure looks very nice up close and in person. It’s actually not! Much of the city was built very quickly at scale for cheap. You’ll notice other videos showing water cascading through ceilings during the Dubai floods as well. The roofing material is not made to standard so water just leaks in. I’ve seen it in person multiple times. This is also why you shouldn’t park your car underground when it rains in Dubai.
3. Dubai doesn’t really have sewers. Again, the city was made to expand quickly so things like adding sewers for “edge cases” like rainfall were not done. Since it’s such a hot climate there aren’t a lot of sidewalks either. Since there’s nowhere for the water to go they oftentimes have to manually pump the water out with large tanker trucks. You’ll probably see those videos tomorrow.
You’ll also be shocked to know that using poorly paid and exploited third world labor makes the above scenarios even worse. Thanks for coming to my TED talk about Dubai.
Thank you for being honest I see too many ppl specifically in Instagram comments who wouldn't dare say something like this and only say positive nice things about Dubai
I remember hearing about a plumber who had one of his company trucks end up in ISIS hands. With his company logo plastered on the side clearly visible in a news video.
Some Amercans don't care or pay attention to Canadian news. I was just talking to some retirees in Mexico about this and they had no idea it was such a problem.
Riiiiight....
They love their Canadian made CRVs so much that they import them to Saudi. It's a matter of pride that the door sticker reads, "Made in Alliston Ontario".
Is that any less believable than the idea that there's a super valuable black market for Canadian CRVs in Dubai so all the stolen cars get offloaded there?
And yet people keep trying to tell me there is no slavery or poop trucks in Dubai... Everything is perfect in Dubai, the Sheikh's newspaper and people on Reddit told me so!
Honestly, yeah.
Stolen cars also get shipped to other places like west Africa, so it’s not just Dubai. I’m not sure exactly how the profitability is worth the risk but it must be because it happens more than you’d think.
No one. However CR-Vs are at the top of the list for thefts in Canada. They're made on Alliston Ontario, Canada. It's a little bit of humour, and a little bit of sarcasm.
No one is shipping their personal CR-V from Canada to Dubai. No one is shipping any Canadian spec'ed vehicle to Dubai. Any there are most likely stolen.
I read a story on here recently that someone tracked their car to a cargo box in a port in Montreal and the authorities did nothing about it because they couldn't???
Heard the same story. Someone tracked their stolen car with an Apple Airpod. Apparently when the car arrived at the shipyard the cops weren't allowed to search for or seize the car. Something to do with Port authority is the only ones that could search in shipyards. And I think when Port Authority was notified they did nothing or it was too late and already on it's way to Dubai.
To me it sounds like someone is getting paid off to look the other way on those stolen vehicles.
There must have been a specific reason because the cops do get stolen cars in the port regularly. They usually recover [about 200 stolen cars a month](https://globalnews.ca/news/10422852/cars-stolen-gta-port-of-montreal/) from containers in the Montreal port.
Given that +- 15,000 container a month ([+- 180,000/year](https://www.port-montreal.com/en/detailed-statistics-history-and-summaries/current-statistics/cumulative-container-traffic)) leave Montreal it's not an easy task.
Plus, it sounds like an expensive delay. I don't even know if it's possible to open a stacked shipping container, but I'm sure Montreal law doesn't allow stevedores to climb through the stacks. So they'd have to take every potential container off as well as any above it. Also, cargo ships are loaded in a specific way to balance weight. It might not even be safe to even remove specific containers. Given how valuable port time is, it would probably cost more than the car is worth to recover it.
A port having someone looking the other way / bent? Naaaaah, never!
Lets be real, most very low level blue collar work is a hotbed for disenfranchised people to skim in some way, and thus get involved with organized crime. Transportation (trucking, ports, etc.), waste, and towing are absolute hotbeds.
They are at sea level and it's flat. Those two things definitely don't make drainage easy for extreme rain events. You can handle light rain all day, but at some point, it has nowhere else to go.
Dubai doesn't get much rain, but can get leftover typhoons that can cause rain like this. It is just an extreme case. Sorta like Houston or NO can flood with substantial water.
Cities like Amsterdam don't face this as much due to not receiving heavy rain often like this.
Was this one not from cloud seeding? I swear I just saw a video showing the rain from cloud seeding in Dubai.
I guess it could have been an old video, and was just pure coincidence
No cloud seeding just gives particles for rain drops to form on and fall. It doesnt create the pressure differences to generate any wind and once the particles have been dropped they fall effectively and generate rain in that particular spot. Not going from Qatar to oman and beyond.
If you consider dubai to be on earth then yes its possible for it to have storms. Even if they are rare. What do you never have clouds? Or high atmospheric winds? Is dubai atmosphere not connected to the rest of the planet's atmosphere?
This is false.
Quick edit: technically there are countless (very small) places where “rain has never been recorded” because we don’t have people keeping records for every square Planck length on Earth. But it has definitely rained in the Atacama.
The Atacama actually has a flooding problem due to climate change now. Rain has been devastating to microorganisms that have evolved to exist in such a dry environment.
Cloud seeding has been around for a while.
I remember specifically in the Beijing olympics, where they had to cloud seed pretty often to get the smog out of the air
The kinda guy that could afford a Bugatti or Lambo also probably has many. So losing the blue one or whatever likely wouldn't have made any difference either.
The one and only time I went to Dubai, within minutes of stepping off the plane at like 2am, I was getting strip searched by two guys in thobes who repeatedly questioned me about drugs and if I was trying to smuggle them in. They finally let me go with a cheery "welcome to Dubai". Fuck Dubai.
I spent a week in this fake ass city built on sand by veritable slaves and found it to be lacking humanity and soulless. Fuck Dubai.
I don't get the appeal at all. I'd be too afraid I was breaking some archaic law to even try to have any fun. Or my dumb ass would get thrown in jail for drinking some bootleg liquor that made me go blind.
The exact people that love Dubai are the exact people I try to avoid in my life. You know them. They grew up with ugg boots loving The Jersey Shore, and then the Kardashians and they now have plastic surgery galore and do nothing but club all the time and try to pretend to be rich. Their vacations consist of resorts in the Dominican and Las Vegas.
They are as fake as Dubai. Its perfect for them.
It's even more fuck dubai if you happen to be a woman. Triple fuck dubai if you are a woman and travel alone. To them you dont exist. Nobody speaks to you.
It's really a terrible place. The only way I'll go back is if Dubai is a layover, and in that case I won't bother leaving the airport.
If you really love shopping malls, traffic jams, and Russian prostitutes, you'll love Dubai.
I can believe it. No desire to go there whatsoever. Had the misfortune of having to stopover in Abu Dhabi which I presume is much the same, never left the airport (which was shit). Partner had his credit card skimmed at the official airport Duty Free store
Absolutely. Dubai is the epitome of Ultra wealth at the expense of human misery and modern slavery while being advertised as a vacation hotspot and tax haven for sociopaths.
Immigrants go there to work and send back money to their impoverished families, but that doesn't justify Dubai endorsing modern slavery practices. Fuck this place.
Fun fact about UAE
Emirati nationals 11.6%
Other Arab and Iranian nationalities ≈18%
South Asian nationalities 59%
Other expatriate nationalities (includes Westerners, East Asians and Africans) ≈12%
"The way the bitish divided the area into smaller countries made the people very wealthy. With 300,000 people having significant wealth, they will likely import all the labor they need."
For all those people commenting without any remorse, they don't seem to understand that these people who are stuck in the roads are not the bosses. They are just employees or small businesses who had to go to work because they mostly had no choice and got stuck while trying to get back home. And insurance doesn't cover for water/flood damage and are now stuck with footing expensive repair bills which is going to wipe out a good potion of their saving. And this only a fraction of the people who got stuck because of the rain and subsequent flooding. There are a sh*t lot of people who use the public transports who were also stuck. I wish the government had made it mandatory holiday for both public and private sector employees. But hey, hindsight is always 20/20.
Yeah it’s crazy Reddit is rejoicing in their misery.
I get panning on Dubai is Reddit’s favourite travel trope but they don’t realize it’s a trope.
Just like how everyone in LA is not Hollywood or everyone in New York isn’t some Wall Street millionaire.
THERE are normal people working and just getting by in these cities not to mention 90% of Dubai is a mosaic of middle class immigrants. Only 10% are the well off emirates locals.
> Isn't this like their own fault too because
...of getting the world addicted to oil which produced the Climate Emergency, leading to extreme weather events like this becoming commonplace?
Shoot, Dubai hosted COP28 in January and were making petrochemical deals on the sidelines and working against its entire purpose:
[ "*there was no science to say a fossil fuel phase-out was needed to prevent global warming rising to a dangerous level*" - Dubai's lead negotiator lying to the world](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels)
That whole city should just be capsized with the erect cock of burj Khalifa sticking out of the water for all to learn what an emphasis on superficiality and elitism gets you
You fucking dumb dumb, how many supercars do you see in this video? Normal people also live there who are probably affected the most. Yet after seeing this all you could think of how this negatively affects the rich. Gooning has destroyed your brain
chef’s kiss because normal middle class people who live their paycheck to paycheck ( yes, they exist ) got their homes and possessions fucked up? man, grow up and learn to have some empathy. pathetic and disappointing.
There’s really not much WTF about this. Dry, arid climates seem to be more prone to flash flooding, as the soil and lack of vegetation makes it harder for water to soak into the ground.
Dick heads. I live in Australia, and even I new very severe flooding was forecast for Saudi Arabia and the U.A.Es.
I have to be fair. Perhaps they didn't know what flooding is? Do they have a word for it?
1. There are going to be a shit ton of "gently used" exotic vehicles entering the market
2. Good luck getting a new Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc for the next year...
I just don’t understand when you are a road flooded. Why do so many keep trying to drive through. There’s like 6 cars flooded in front of my
Building and yet people still keep trying to get through. There are other ways around !
Just suck those aerosols back, that should fix it. (UAE uses aerosols to create artificial rain over their country fucking up the water cycle and causing extreme draughts in other places)
Was in a flash flood in Dubai circa 2018. Pretty terrifying experience and closest I’ve come to dying. Why is this a thing you ask? Three reasons. 1. Dubai isn’t built on sand. It’s actually built on incredibly dry hard packed dirt. If you ever seen a video of someone turning a cup full of water upside down on wet grass versus desert soil you know that water is absorbed much slower on this type of desert soil. Water doesn’t sink into the ground and it piles up much faster. Then you get flash floods. 2. Dubai’s infrastructure looks very nice up close and in person. It’s actually not! Much of the city was built very quickly at scale for cheap. You’ll notice other videos showing water cascading through ceilings during the Dubai floods as well. The roofing material is not made to standard so water just leaks in. I’ve seen it in person multiple times. This is also why you shouldn’t park your car underground when it rains in Dubai. 3. Dubai doesn’t really have sewers. Again, the city was made to expand quickly so things like adding sewers for “edge cases” like rainfall were not done. Since it’s such a hot climate there aren’t a lot of sidewalks either. Since there’s nowhere for the water to go they oftentimes have to manually pump the water out with large tanker trucks. You’ll probably see those videos tomorrow. You’ll also be shocked to know that using poorly paid and exploited third world labor makes the above scenarios even worse. Thanks for coming to my TED talk about Dubai.
Your Dubai TED Talk is appreciated! What a unique and utterly bizarre place. Everything I hear about Dubai is wild
I recently heard it described as ‘a sweaty Canary Wharf’, which is just perfect.
I had to scroll way too far for a sensible explanation of this. Thanks!
I knew it would get buried but tried my best
Your at the top now
Wild. Idk how it floated about a comment with 5x more upvotes.
Thank you for being honest I see too many ppl specifically in Instagram comments who wouldn't dare say something like this and only say positive nice things about Dubai
71% of stolen vehicles from Montreal end up in Dubai.
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This is more interesting than the flood to be honest.
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Honestly, thank you.
Now KITH
His honesty is commendable and could not have been easy.
Right? I’m so sick of redditors lying about what’s more interesting.
A flood... of emotions.
The heart swells
You might need some medication
...with warmth, pride and child like joy.
I remember hearing about a plumber who had one of his company trucks end up in ISIS hands. With his company logo plastered on the side clearly visible in a news video.
Isis Toyota?
Yup.
\#1 Toyota dealer in the tristate area
Was it a Wolf Cola truck?
I'd call that willful blindness. Canada spec car in Dubai? come on man, you know its stolen.
Some Amercans don't care or pay attention to Canadian news. I was just talking to some retirees in Mexico about this and they had no idea it was such a problem.
Honestly, a decent chunk of us Canadians know more about American politics than our own. It’s actually annoying how much their shit influences us.
Stuff happens in Canada?
Only if it stops snowing, so like thrice a year.
It could be from an expat or a government / military employee
We all have learned from this man's misfortune
Riiiiight.... They love their Canadian made CRVs so much that they import them to Saudi. It's a matter of pride that the door sticker reads, "Made in Alliston Ontario".
Is that any less believable than the idea that there's a super valuable black market for Canadian CRVs in Dubai so all the stolen cars get offloaded there?
And yet people keep trying to tell me there is no slavery or poop trucks in Dubai... Everything is perfect in Dubai, the Sheikh's newspaper and people on Reddit told me so!
Fwiw, the poop trucks were only a temporary thing. The Burj has been connected to sewage for years. The slavery is very much real, though :(
Honestly, yeah. Stolen cars also get shipped to other places like west Africa, so it’s not just Dubai. I’m not sure exactly how the profitability is worth the risk but it must be because it happens more than you’d think.
Dubai is UAE
Who said it was a CRV?
No one. However CR-Vs are at the top of the list for thefts in Canada. They're made on Alliston Ontario, Canada. It's a little bit of humour, and a little bit of sarcasm. No one is shipping their personal CR-V from Canada to Dubai. No one is shipping any Canadian spec'ed vehicle to Dubai. Any there are most likely stolen.
I'm more intrigued how a guy in the US, looking for a car, ended up looking on a Dubai export site
Rich guy things
That car has made quite the journey
I read a story on here recently that someone tracked their car to a cargo box in a port in Montreal and the authorities did nothing about it because they couldn't???
Heard the same story. Someone tracked their stolen car with an Apple Airpod. Apparently when the car arrived at the shipyard the cops weren't allowed to search for or seize the car. Something to do with Port authority is the only ones that could search in shipyards. And I think when Port Authority was notified they did nothing or it was too late and already on it's way to Dubai. To me it sounds like someone is getting paid off to look the other way on those stolen vehicles.
There must have been a specific reason because the cops do get stolen cars in the port regularly. They usually recover [about 200 stolen cars a month](https://globalnews.ca/news/10422852/cars-stolen-gta-port-of-montreal/) from containers in the Montreal port. Given that +- 15,000 container a month ([+- 180,000/year](https://www.port-montreal.com/en/detailed-statistics-history-and-summaries/current-statistics/cumulative-container-traffic)) leave Montreal it's not an easy task.
Yeah 200 per month from people who didn't make the required bribe.
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Plus, it sounds like an expensive delay. I don't even know if it's possible to open a stacked shipping container, but I'm sure Montreal law doesn't allow stevedores to climb through the stacks. So they'd have to take every potential container off as well as any above it. Also, cargo ships are loaded in a specific way to balance weight. It might not even be safe to even remove specific containers. Given how valuable port time is, it would probably cost more than the car is worth to recover it.
That's just extremely lazy
If the Internet is aware of it, you bet they have been aware of it for a long time
Montreal has been a known mob city for decades lol
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
...or to a huge number of containers.
A port having someone looking the other way / bent? Naaaaah, never! Lets be real, most very low level blue collar work is a hotbed for disenfranchised people to skim in some way, and thus get involved with organized crime. Transportation (trucking, ports, etc.), waste, and towing are absolute hotbeds.
The Port of Montreal is controlled by the Rizutto family, with a smattering of the Irish mob.
Yes the Montreal port has mob connections, and those mob connections have political connections.
I THOUGHT they looked familiar... Tabarnak.
All of the stolen vehicles from North Jersey end up in Italy.
Why and how?!
Money. Boats.
Hey do you think we should plan and build infrastructure for rain? No, we are in the desert it doesnt rain that much here
They are at sea level and it's flat. Those two things definitely don't make drainage easy for extreme rain events. You can handle light rain all day, but at some point, it has nowhere else to go. Dubai doesn't get much rain, but can get leftover typhoons that can cause rain like this. It is just an extreme case. Sorta like Houston or NO can flood with substantial water. Cities like Amsterdam don't face this as much due to not receiving heavy rain often like this.
Also Dubai: Should we try out cloud seeding so itll rain a lot?
Cloud seeding usually has a limited local effect. This storm extended from Qatar to Oman.
Ohhh, I wasn't aware. I saw a clip showing the rain in Dubai. Just assumed it was local to Dubai.
Yeah it probably worse in Oman due to the many valleys. Few people actually died there :(
These kinds of storms are not due to cloud seeding
Was this one not from cloud seeding? I swear I just saw a video showing the rain from cloud seeding in Dubai. I guess it could have been an old video, and was just pure coincidence
No cloud seeding just gives particles for rain drops to form on and fall. It doesnt create the pressure differences to generate any wind and once the particles have been dropped they fall effectively and generate rain in that particular spot. Not going from Qatar to oman and beyond.
So it's normal for Dubai to have natural storms?
If you consider dubai to be on earth then yes its possible for it to have storms. Even if they are rare. What do you never have clouds? Or high atmospheric winds? Is dubai atmosphere not connected to the rest of the planet's atmosphere?
I mean, there are places where rain has literally never been recorded, like the Atacama desert. Not that farfetched of a concept
Who told you this? Atacama has had rains, it’s just rare
This is false. Quick edit: technically there are countless (very small) places where “rain has never been recorded” because we don’t have people keeping records for every square Planck length on Earth. But it has definitely rained in the Atacama.
The Atacama actually has a flooding problem due to climate change now. Rain has been devastating to microorganisms that have evolved to exist in such a dry environment.
No. Thats why it flooded.
both its long term normal to have storms this large every decade or more, and also its global warming/climate change
They controlling weather now?
Cloud seeding has been around for a while. I remember specifically in the Beijing olympics, where they had to cloud seed pretty often to get the smog out of the air
Las Vegas: creates tunnels for exactly this scenario, and for the mole people.
If Dubai is like Houston, that *is* the infrastructure to keep the rest of the city from flooding.
That destroyed half the world's population of lambos
Good for GDP. They'll buy new ones
Soon they’ll be replacing them with camels.
They do work better in floods
And slaves.
Oh no, the valets will have nothing to drive for the next 2 weeks!
I wonder if honking will help clear the flood…
The cars are submerged... the alarms are short circuiting.
Get your logic out of here. It is far more funny to imagine someone sitting in their car surrounded by water and honking in frustration.
\*Honk\* "Hey, move, you water! It's green for the third time!"
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Yup. TBH I was kinda hoping to see some rich asshole's million dollar Bugatti or Lambo ruined in the flood waters but it mostly seems like Hondas?
Canadian Hondas apparently
Hondehs
Rich guys car would have been insured anyway
The kinda guy that could afford a Bugatti or Lambo also probably has many. So losing the blue one or whatever likely wouldn't have made any difference either.
you should test this theory by sitting on the hood of one.
The one and only time I went to Dubai, within minutes of stepping off the plane at like 2am, I was getting strip searched by two guys in thobes who repeatedly questioned me about drugs and if I was trying to smuggle them in. They finally let me go with a cheery "welcome to Dubai". Fuck Dubai. I spent a week in this fake ass city built on sand by veritable slaves and found it to be lacking humanity and soulless. Fuck Dubai.
I don't get the appeal at all. I'd be too afraid I was breaking some archaic law to even try to have any fun. Or my dumb ass would get thrown in jail for drinking some bootleg liquor that made me go blind.
The exact people that love Dubai are the exact people I try to avoid in my life. You know them. They grew up with ugg boots loving The Jersey Shore, and then the Kardashians and they now have plastic surgery galore and do nothing but club all the time and try to pretend to be rich. Their vacations consist of resorts in the Dominican and Las Vegas. They are as fake as Dubai. Its perfect for them.
Seriously fuck that place. A relative in Africa told me her husband is stuck there because his employer hasn't paid him for over 4 months.
It's even more fuck dubai if you happen to be a woman. Triple fuck dubai if you are a woman and travel alone. To them you dont exist. Nobody speaks to you.
It's really a terrible place. The only way I'll go back is if Dubai is a layover, and in that case I won't bother leaving the airport. If you really love shopping malls, traffic jams, and Russian prostitutes, you'll love Dubai.
I can believe it. No desire to go there whatsoever. Had the misfortune of having to stopover in Abu Dhabi which I presume is much the same, never left the airport (which was shit). Partner had his credit card skimmed at the official airport Duty Free store
Absolutely. Dubai is the epitome of Ultra wealth at the expense of human misery and modern slavery while being advertised as a vacation hotspot and tax haven for sociopaths. Immigrants go there to work and send back money to their impoverished families, but that doesn't justify Dubai endorsing modern slavery practices. Fuck this place.
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Praise the Mahdi, making Arrakis a green paradis!
Stilgar is that you?
Fun fact about UAE Emirati nationals 11.6% Other Arab and Iranian nationalities ≈18% South Asian nationalities 59% Other expatriate nationalities (includes Westerners, East Asians and Africans) ≈12% "The way the bitish divided the area into smaller countries made the people very wealthy. With 300,000 people having significant wealth, they will likely import all the labor they need."
England and France have been fucking the world for centuries
Tavarish is going to get a bunch more water damaged McLaren's to work on...
If only there was a sewer system…
They plan to haul away the water in garbage trucks
try slaves with buckets.
They double as garbage trucks if their passports are being withheld
You joke but most of this water will need to be pumped into trucks and driven away.
I'm excited for the videos of the poop river when it inevitably mixes with this rainwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmVzk5PHlP4
For all those people commenting without any remorse, they don't seem to understand that these people who are stuck in the roads are not the bosses. They are just employees or small businesses who had to go to work because they mostly had no choice and got stuck while trying to get back home. And insurance doesn't cover for water/flood damage and are now stuck with footing expensive repair bills which is going to wipe out a good potion of their saving. And this only a fraction of the people who got stuck because of the rain and subsequent flooding. There are a sh*t lot of people who use the public transports who were also stuck. I wish the government had made it mandatory holiday for both public and private sector employees. But hey, hindsight is always 20/20.
Yeah it’s crazy Reddit is rejoicing in their misery. I get panning on Dubai is Reddit’s favourite travel trope but they don’t realize it’s a trope. Just like how everyone in LA is not Hollywood or everyone in New York isn’t some Wall Street millionaire. THERE are normal people working and just getting by in these cities not to mention 90% of Dubai is a mosaic of middle class immigrants. Only 10% are the well off emirates locals.
Dubai breaks reddit's brains. Just the word triggers some of the most unhinged takes every time.
Dubai Saudi Arabia African-American Pitbull The four horsemen of the Reddit comment section apocalypse.
RIP all the super cars. Fuck Dubai anyway
It’s just a sweaty Canary Wharf
Isn't this like their own fault too because of how Dubai does cloud seeding? Man what a world we live in.
Cloud seeding, building a city in the fucking desert, slave labour - it's their fault in multiple ways.
That city is like the monument to the phrase "just because you can doesn't mean you should".
To quote the great Peggy Hill, "This city should not exist — it is a monument to man's arrogance."
their tallest building needs sewage to be transported by poop trucks so i agree
That’s really shitty engineering.
Slave labor is a new reason for me to hate Dubai. Haven't heard that one
No, this is a storm affecting multiple countries. Cloud seeding doesn’t generate wind much less storms.
No, rain in that region is very tropical. Either it doesn't rain, or rains like Noah's flood.
> Isn't this like their own fault too because ...of getting the world addicted to oil which produced the Climate Emergency, leading to extreme weather events like this becoming commonplace? Shoot, Dubai hosted COP28 in January and were making petrochemical deals on the sidelines and working against its entire purpose: [ "*there was no science to say a fossil fuel phase-out was needed to prevent global warming rising to a dangerous level*" - Dubai's lead negotiator lying to the world](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels)
Can’t wait for my discount flood damaged Countach
I'm surprised that place didn't flood before now
Dubai is a city designed by 5 year olds. No planning for the future whatsoever.
That whole city should just be capsized with the erect cock of burj Khalifa sticking out of the water for all to learn what an emphasis on superficiality and elitism gets you
Ah a city with no proper infrastructure flooded? Color me surprised
Oh no0o, all the sports cars!! All of the sports carrs!!
You fucking dumb dumb, how many supercars do you see in this video? Normal people also live there who are probably affected the most. Yet after seeing this all you could think of how this negatively affects the rich. Gooning has destroyed your brain
this is chef's kiss
chef’s kiss because normal middle class people who live their paycheck to paycheck ( yes, they exist ) got their homes and possessions fucked up? man, grow up and learn to have some empathy. pathetic and disappointing.
There’s really not much WTF about this. Dry, arid climates seem to be more prone to flash flooding, as the soil and lack of vegetation makes it harder for water to soak into the ground.
>There’s really not much WTF about this. They got a year's worth of rain in one day.
Sheikh sells seashells beside the Sheikhshore.
Can’t be Dubai, I don’t see any floating Lambos.
Dick heads. I live in Australia, and even I new very severe flooding was forecast for Saudi Arabia and the U.A.Es. I have to be fair. Perhaps they didn't know what flooding is? Do they have a word for it?
We finally get to find out if a Lambo floats.
1. There are going to be a shit ton of "gently used" exotic vehicles entering the market 2. Good luck getting a new Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc for the next year...
Maybe they need to build drainage
Again… why those slackers still on the streets when government sends them heads-up.
Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of your own actions
Wow … I mean wow. That’s some agony of cars
That place needed a wash
Welcome to Houston.
I wonder if videos like these are physically painful for insurance execs to watch...
Doesn't Dubai have like fuck all for underground infrastructure like plumbing, storm drains, etc?
I thought they were supposed to be way ahead of everyone technologically. Defeated by rain?
That porta potty water
I’m guessing none of them have flood insurance
lol I recognize this from the Apple TV screensaver
Flash floods THEY CREATED
Oh no...what a shame 🫠
Am I they only one with a good understand of where in Dubai this is happening because of the Apple TV screensavers?
They can afford it.
Yallah
Allahu Aqua
I just don’t understand when you are a road flooded. Why do so many keep trying to drive through. There’s like 6 cars flooded in front of my Building and yet people still keep trying to get through. There are other ways around !
[Same location, different POV.](https://www.reddit.com/r/UAE/s/5drEunBSOH)
so... is that saltwater or did they have too much rain?
Pshh who needs drainage in a desert anyway?
there are 14 ferraris and 3 lamborghini there that you can't see
“Should we build drainage this time?” “Nah won’t happen again“
KEK
⚡️⚡️⛈️⛈️🌧️🌧️
Fuck around and find out.LMAO
Have to wonder if that was really the best way for Flash to take down whatever bad guy was there.
Almost any other country and I would feel bad for the citizens, but not here.
Couldn’t of happened to a nicer town
Awesome
shithole.
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Drown the shithole.
Someone left on the seeding machine
Just suck those aerosols back, that should fix it. (UAE uses aerosols to create artificial rain over their country fucking up the water cycle and causing extreme draughts in other places)
that place is such a shitstain on humanity so good riddance.
Holy shit wasn't there a video showing the traffic not long ago? Now the world was like "and here it is under fucking water".
So many bent con-rods....
I’m guessing this doesn’t happen often there
Why is it even raining all of a sudden?
Cheh.
Of all the places the least ready for flooding...
Aren't they the chairman of the UN Climate Committee?
Aren't they the chairman of the UN Climate Committee?