Dubai flooding: Dozens of cars and buses abandoned

Torrential rain flooded roads, homes and malls and briefly halted operations at Dubai's airport as storms lashed the Gulf on Tuesday, after leaving at least 18 dead in Oman.

Dubai, the Middle East's financial centre, was paralysed by the heavy storms that caused widespread flooding around the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Flagship shopping centres Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates both suffered flooding and water was ankle-deep at at least one Dubai Metro station.

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[diDaN]

They can now start planting more trees

[applepicker]

They forgot to construct one of the basic requirements in housing and building construction, drainage systems.

[Liza.Wharton]

lmao the richest place on earth has no proper drain system? 😭

[moonshadowrising]

It's a well known fact that for many years, Dubai have been using cloud seeding to produce large quantities of rain..

[strucksoon]

That place is an uninspiring concrete dump even when the sun is shining…in this weather it is just a miserable hell.

[Fester_]

" I see Moses is at it again. "

[rv]

Theres no better place like Europe to live, thx and goodbye

[trickydicky]

Just came back a few days ago from there after a 10 day break. It was great, no problems. Freak weather can happen anywhere, chill people and relax. That's why we have insurnace.

[themindset]

It rarely rains in the desert, but when it does...

[Xvics]

They cloud seeded too much this time. 😂

[momomomo]

Global weather reshuffles - drought in Panama, one of the wettest places on earth, and floods in Australia and UAE.

[Propaineva]

Those who watched Alabasta know what’s coming

Oda foreshadowing = 🐐

[igorbukovy]

They should be happy for the rain because rain is rare in desert.

[ASBS]

They did not plan for this amount of rain. Scary!

[Ajax]

this is extremely frustrating to deal with kinda glad im not there atm

[missstpm]

I don’t understand one thing. Why the “news” in Dubai are based only in amateur videos footages and no reporters making any comments at all?
Say something!!! So how is the government going to fix all of this? How long it will take for the roads to be back to normal? How many people died or got injured? Which roads are blocked now? Which roads should we avoid? What should we be cautious about and what are the dangerous for the days ahead?
Oh my god, say something important “news

[trapmusic]

Its unbelievable to see rain in desert

[Greenpoloboy]

We had hailstones today twice in my part of England.

[Qalb-E-Momin.]

God is all knowing, inshallah one day justice will be in hand of God ! Allah is sufficient for us

[cecilnjau]

That cloud seeding has gone out of hand