As an Emirati (citizen of the country where Dubai exists who experienced the floods), our country annual rain is about 3.5 inches, we already passed this benchmark mark about a couple months ago, the day before yesterday we experienced 8 inches in one day which is more than our yearly rain amount for two years! So yes we didn’t account for drainage that can handle the amount of more than two years in one night
Second thing is that we are in the middle of the desert, our cars and buildings are made to withstand the immense heat that we struggle with 75% of the time as cooling houses is our main priorities when building them. Our whole life style is about being hot all of the time not the opposite.
Third thing is infrastructure, we have one of the best infrastructure in the whole world, that’s what we thought until those couple of days were it showed up clearly that the our infrastructure had many issues with rain, that we are currently addressing, I blame this one on the companies that had probably millions of dollars to build roads yet fully failed us
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