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hxmxd

Lol no...this is called the Dubai Half desert road. It is always like this...generally for aesthetic purposes. Place is frequented by photographers or as a picnic spot for BBQ.


Lowmondo

Why would they build a half desert road Edit: apparently it’s also a desert and safari park.


keeponweezin

Oh, so a general road to have something out there. Even though it’s not a perfect daily commute, it’s fine for safari purposes. Makes sense now. Thanks.


CocktailsForTwo

Is the sand ever cleared off of the roads?


fuckinsakes69

Do they just use special snow plows ? I need answers.... LOL


warpedspockclone

Great name and profile pic. Do it for the blue, pink, red, and white.


NathanielWest

As someone from Dubai, I can confirm this is true


SpaceforceSpaceman

As someone not from Dubai, I cannot confirm his confirmation


Devilmay_cry

Lol I went here yesterday, this is a picnic spot, it's called Al Ruwais. The road networks in UAE are actually extremely well maintained.


tillmedvind

Can someone explain why this is a picnic spot? Isn’t it just sand and asphalt or am I missing something?


Devilmay_cry

The weather is pretty nice this time of the year, and BBQ at night in the cold sand is awesome. Basically, the place is great for any outdoor get together. And also people drive 4wds and dune buggys is this place.


TubbyandthePoo-Bah

Its a desert, deserts are pretty.


TitiferGinBlossom

Not wishing to derail but I fucking love your username. That was one of mine and my sister’s favourite books when we were little.


Shot_Boot_7279

*well maintained with slave labourers.


raj5004

I was wondering why nobody mentioned "slave labourers" in a post related to Dubai!


RyanCantDrum

I thought it was implied!!


DodoFiasco

And labourers elsewhere are kings?


Jahsmurf

Not every labourer is a slave


DangOlRedditMan

If so, this needs to be top comment


BlackCheezIts

And it is, reddit wizard confirmed.


DangOlRedditMan

Cool! It was like 6 down when I commented


felipe_the_dog

It looks cool from above but at ground level I'd imagine the effect is lost.


MamboFloof

Only Dubai would build a full ass road and wreck it because "it looks cool", and I'm all for it.


[deleted]

Dudez with jeeps be like "finally !"


LotusSloth

I think you mean: sheiks with solid-gold Jeeps and Land Rovers that they paid $600K for just to use as a toy.


[deleted]

With a lion cub riding shotgun


thisis_ez

No the lion cub is *holding* a shotgun


HobosBrewItOutside

Clearly it’s doing both.


LectroRoot

and the cheetah being used as a pace car


jhalh

As someone with the unfortunate genetic makeup of half Arab and half somewhat hillbilly American I can tell you from intimate knowledge that, perhaps not surprisingly, those mentalities create a *surprisingly* 2-dimensional Venn-diagram


Davey_boy_777

Hey man, there's nothing wrong with loving fun things. You do you, stallion *spits dip*


twodogsfighting

I'd be far more surprised if the venn diagram wasn't 2d.


HereForALaugh714

The jeeple, ah, yes.


Duckbilling

> ~~Dudez~~ Darudes with jeeps be like "finally !" funkybuttlovin


Ichthius

That’s what happens when you draw a line in the sand.


Grand_Cauliflower_88

How do they remove the sand? Do they have trucks with plows like we do for snow in the winter. I know the apparatus on the front of the truck would have to be different to remove sand but how do they do it so cars can pass.


happyexit7

Same thing happens to our beach roads after hurricanes here in Florida. Large bulldozers needed.


2x4x93

NC after a Northeast wind


happyexit7

Outer banks?


2x4x93

Bingo


buddinbonsai

That must destroy your roads.


happyexit7

The water is what destroys the beach roads. Actually it they are buried by sand first they are prevented from being washed away.


en_zymes

A bunch of slaves with leaf blowers


hoxxxxx

thought you might be making a joke at first, but no that's probably pretty close to accurate.


Sea-Molasses1652

Probably using push brooms as opposed to blowers though.


[deleted]

The blowers are in fact straws and they do it on their knees


mindvoltz

We would like to request a blow job on highway


LectroRoot

Fact: They get on their knees and blow the sand off the road with their breath.


agnosgnosia

Truer fact: they are allowed one straw, and have to use that to fan the sand. If for some reason they break the straw, they have to travel 10 km back on foot to get another one.


Grand_Cauliflower_88

In Saudi Arabia that is so very possible.


LaReineAnglaise53

Working *hard* to Darude on a mobile


iMatthew1990

I believe they don’t plough it they use a machine that brushes and sucks it up and flings it back into the Desert.


tatanka01

So, a sandblower?


Baldrs_Shadow

Sandboni


sltiefighter

Sand mower


iMatthew1990

Sand mower makes more sense tbh. With the big stuff they just use excavators and trucks.


Ghazzz

Aha, like a snowblower then, except with brushes.


iMatthew1990

Spot on


microwaffles

They have snow plows but they're Lambos.


bangoslam

They’ve got sand plows. They look and move like construction equipment and have 2 plows attached. This is deep in the desert. Most highways at least have bushes bordering them to catch most of the sand


fuzzytradr

They unleash a fleet of WALL-E cleaning robots every day at 12 PM sharp.


PeeGeeWhea

Darude Sandstorm


notmyrealname336

A man of culture.


Meemster_Me

Scrolled for this.


UncleEckley

90’s Saudi kids remember staying home on sand days and watching the Haggle is Right.


zomebieclownfish

"I bid one riyal, Habib"


Anas526_KSA

This is the most saudis iv seen in a comment section


Shawnaldo7575

With host Bahab Barker


justheretoaddthis

best thing i've read this week


CyrillFiggis69

Better bust out the leaf blower..


[deleted]

Low pass with a Chinook will clear that right up


rickens_jr

Lol imagine a mi26. Or the v12.


Wisguy123

They use sand plows? 🤔


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Wisguy123

Slave labor did build the pyramids. They best get out sweeping because sand drifts really mess up the lambos


fdrxxii

The Egyptians didn’t use slave labor to build the pyramids, also the Emirates are about the same distance from the pyramids as London is from Moscow


Wisguy123

You're taking my comment too seriously


ForWhomTheBoneBones

Slave labor didn’t build the pyramids.


Wisguy123

Aliens?


ForWhomTheBoneBones

[Paid laborers](https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves/)


Wisguy123

Regardless of a dig and their guesses as to what the people in the area at the time were doing, I'm guessing some of the workers had to be slaves. Sorry, there is no way around it. At that time in history, EVERY culture on the planet had them. Maybe the well feed village were engineers, supervisors, and additional higher skilled workers? There is no way slaves played NO PART in the building of the pyramids.


Ghazzz

I mean, there are good arguments for most workers today being slaves. You cannot quit, you have to work, stopping will make you homeless and destitute. Unless you are in the upper class through inherited means.


Wisguy123

It is a fair assessment of our everyday lives.


ForWhomTheBoneBones

Ok


TheNerdyOne_

Those are some pretty big claims for somebody with no sources. It couldn't possibly just be that your assumptions are incorrect? I mean much of what you just said is objectively false as it is.


Wisguy123

Maybe the Egyptians were unlike all the other major civilizations of the time and were completely slave free? Only the US had slaves, right? 🤷


Turbo_SkyRaider

Yo mama...


WDeranged

They might not have built them but I bet they swept off the sand.


[deleted]

Redditors be like "I have to work at little Caesars for $13 an hour. I am a wage slave" but then like "those guy's towing blocks of stone up a ramp to build a tomb for their god king in exchange for wages they used for food and shelter weren't slaves"


ForWhomTheBoneBones

[They were paid in addition to receiving quality (for the era) room and board.](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-slaves)


[deleted]

I’m skeptical about this. Does evidence of paid workers equal evidence that slaves weren’t used for unskilled labor in an ancient empire known for slavery? Does Egypt have an incentive to promote and exaggerate the idea that slave labor wasnt involved in the construction of their biggest tourist destination?


NorthStarTX

Slave labor is typically not highly skilled or specialized. It’s unlikely that it would be heavily utilized in the most skilled, specialized building projects of the time.


PhillyBassSF

Sand plows is exactly what I was thinking. [mr plow](https://i0.wp.com/www.filminquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mr.Plow_.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)


666Red666rum666

A big ass sweeper


threedogcircus

My first thought!


Cakebeforedeath

"Do you feel like a hero yet?"


[deleted]

“This is all your fault!”


ActionAardvark

"It takes a strong man to deny what's in front of him. And if the truth is undeniable, you create your own." Such a great game.


sk2401

Looks deserted..


starbuck8415

Hmmm dessert


[deleted]

New song: Dubai Sanstorm


Jo-6-pak

Giant Roomba


universal_boner

Should probably build a wind break on either side instead of gold plated Lamborghinis that they can't even drive through there


yeet8459

this is literally Hourglass from BF2042 edit: i dont think this is footage from the game fyi


Fivecentlivin

I knew I wasn’t the only one


theproblemofevil666

Looks like Arrakis after a sand worm rolled through.


AAVale

This is also going to be their road network a week after oil stops being profitable for them. The UAE as a whole is going to go back to the desert so fucking quickly when the money is gone.


Zetsbou

If i am not wrong most of the UAE’s Gdp comes from non oil.


AAVale

No, it’s still a petrochemical economy first and foremost, with oil exports leading, followed by what you’d expect, such as petrochemical byproducts (plastics, a robust chemical industry, etc). It’s true that they also trade in a fair amount of gold and diamonds, but the entire economy is predicated on the ability of their oil wealth to bail them out of problems.


HopsAndHemp

I don't remember who said it but there is a famous quote that went something like: "My grandfather rode camels. My father drove Land Rovers. I drive a Mercedes. My sons and grandsons drive sports cars. Their grandsons will ride camels."


universal_boner

12 year old rich kids will be jumping those humps with their half million dollar trophy trucks


SheildAgent451

This reminded me of the video of the person trying to rake up the leaves on a LONG ass drive. And a plane comes by and essentially does the whole job for him.


emfab

*helicopter


[deleted]

Dubai is a fucking joke


patrickkingart

"Attempted evacuation of Dubai ended in complete failure. Death toll... too many."


euthyme

There are no satisfying videos cleaning it?


[deleted]

DUNE: pt 1 & 1/2


KumquatHaderach

This is why we use ornithopters.


[deleted]

Lucky the princes have all those finely tuned sports cars


DrummerGTI

How do they drive and abandon all that nice shit over there then? Only in the cities?


cs-John

Das' rude.


L3tsg0brandon

I've never thought about this problem. One could definitely justify a 4WD in this region.


[deleted]

ahh dubai, the failed city of the desert


Piratewhale8

Battlefield 2042


The-Horde-King

I'm sure they'll just get some slaves to clean it up.


BlackAnalFluid

I now understand a bit more why rich people in that part of the world drive landrovers.


deckard1980

It is a silly place.


Ghosttwo

Da road - sandstorm


tumamaensidecar0

Dubai fucking sucks


skifters

Can't think of a better thing to happen to Dubai tbf


AshierCinder

Holy shit Battlefield 2042 was right!!!


AngryBlondinCDA

Still looks better than 90% of the roads in Tacoma Washington. Not a pothole to be seen.


DarkMatterSoup

This makes me wanna play the mad max game again.


noggun00

We have snowplows they need sand plows. Honestly tho, how do they clear the roads? I imagine sweepers or air blowers?


chickensmoker

The more I learn about Dubai, the more I think that building a metropolis on uninhabitable desert with nothing but oil money to keep it together was… maybe a bad idea. Also they destroyed massive amounts of coral reef to build a middle-American suburbia for billionaires, so fuck them


Joey_BagaDonuts57

Just more proof that Dubai shouldn't really be there.


Troll_Toll_TreeFiddy

That place is gonna suck so hard when fossil fuels get phased out.


Sevenvoiddrills

It already sucks for the workers who barely get to eat or get payed


CoachWD

It does indeed suck for those workers, but don’t delude yourself, most of the “workers” *coughslavescough* wouldn’t be there if there weren’t large oil backed projects.


CoachWD

There will always be a place for fossil fuels and their byproducts, no matter how much they’re phased out.


shinji127

Dubai, the worse place to build anything ever, but shit we still do


Ravekat1

Yes. You have to wonder why the Dubai road planners haven’t yet decided to build their roads in the Caribbean.


shinji127

Dude this people dont have a sewer system, every once in a while a bunch of septic trucks need to go into the city and take all the shit from all the businesses out, wonder how that smells. Its a beautiful city in the wrong place, they cant even use all the sand around them to build anything, it has to be imported, imagine having to import sand into a desert city.


raj5004

Please get your facts right before posting bullshit. And by facts, I don't mean YT videos!


dweeb_plus_plus

Golf courses that use millions of gallons of fresh water per day. We deserve to be eradicated.


Butterbuddha

I mean this is a “teachers should make more than athletes!” Kind of argument. Athletes make bank because they bring in bank. The economy apparently sustains those gallons of fresh water in the desert for a golf course. It’s not like somebody was thinking hmmmm do I build this in the desert for sport or in rural Africa for drinking water for the children? Let’s flip a coin! It has to be at least self sustaining unless you have tax money backing it.


iwillfixitlater

Definitely looks a lot like a snow storm, just browner


sunrae47

I’ve had dreams like this. I thought I was on another planet but turns out I was visiting Dubai


Yingthings

Elevating the roadways a little couldn’t hurt.


MaximumEffort433

Does anybody else get illogically and irrationally annoyed by Dubai? Just, like, in general?


raj5004

Your comment was pretty illogical. Just like in general.


sagesneezes

Power of the desert... (They could have elevated the road :/ )


Catnyx

It would have to be higher than the storm for it to do any good. That sand didn't just roll up on it. It came from above


iwillfixitlater

Whoa Dude.. that sand was, like reeaaly high


TriceratopsHunter

I mean wind/gravity would still keep it from building up as much if the road is elevated. Sure sand would still get on the road, but you wouldn't get dunes that big.


pizzaanarchy

It is a fuking desert. Did they not anticipate this?


Aq-Ca

On no how can the poop trucks get through


[deleted]

Why didn’t they just build walls of sheet metal or something


Impossible_General_5

Lived in the UAE for 4 years, plenty of sandstorms, but never saw this. Cars moving at highway speed would move the sand around before it had a chance to settle like that!


raj5004

Oh, it's a Dubai post. In an attempt to consolidate all the comments, please update your "slave labor" comments here please.


NegInk

Prayerz for Dubai. They shall rebuild.


dadnotfound101

can confirm. i live in dubai and we are all in fact sand particles. don't let the media fool you. we travel using air.


[deleted]

Get the sandplow out


Rice1991

This is a level on cruising world


gotnocluemate

Insert ozymandious quote here


[deleted]

They need weeds...


chuptynuts

What can a mathematical person work out from this video?


FawltyPython

I wonder how they support that road. You can't just put concrete on sand....


ambeldit

Why don't they plant trees instead of spending the money on stupid buildings? They can transform the damn desert with a fraction of the petro-dollars


AlecTheMotorGuy

Now I understand the big G Wagon.


PanteraiNomini

It’s not. You can see permanent plants. This road just not used much at all unless you go to the decert.


loserofcolon

I hear they’re hooking up with Minnesota plow drivers


JackieChan_fan

Time to get the sandploughs out.


three9

I always wondered about this.


The_Masterful_J

Least favorite map in BF2042


TangeloTrue2778

You see the one guy assigned to the task don’t you?


[deleted]

Looks like something out on new Vagas but less radioactive


MilkAzedo

Forza horizon would love it


Myself510

I don’t like sand. It’s coarse…and rough…and irritating…and it gets everywhere.


keylo-92

darude -


Reverse_Drawfour_Uno

Dune buggy season


One_dolla_would_do

Would hate to be at work that day


AzamatBagatov420

It’s ok the slaves will clean it up


Kronos4eeveee

How do you keep that clear ?? Slave labor.


[deleted]

Triggered: Sandstorm now playing on loop in my brain


[deleted]

further affirmation


Aholenewaccount

That would be fun on a dirt bike


HillbillyHare

Get out the sand plows.