I’ve seen people saying its due to cloud seeding is this true?
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There was no cloud seeding going on, trust me. At one point it got so dark with clouds that it felt like the middle of the night. An American on a group chat I’m on said it felt like an Oklahoma tornado, except nobody has tornado shelters here so we got to watch it all happen outside our windows.
No airplanes could land for hours at DXB. There’s no way some plucky Cessna pilot was pootling around chucking silver iodide out the window.
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
You’d be surprised. There are cities in the US that have been around for 100+ years that grind to a halt after a large amount of rainfall such as Midland, TX or Clovis, NM where the streets are designed to ferry rainfall to crops or grazing land nearby. They don’t have storm drains, they have streets meant to act as aqueducts because of the lack of normal rainfall. Newer cities built for commerce don’t have that issue and don’t care that half the city would shut down for rainfall that rarely happens.
As for Dubai, they’re getting a higher rainfall than they’ve seen in a while. As a (relatively) brand new city, it makes sense that they didn’t think about it.
It is isn’t that bad in a lot of places. In my area, by the next morning, all the water on the road was gone and I heard the same about other areas as well. Only some areas were affected badly
It’s not cloud seeding, the National Centre of Meteorology released all flight records showing that no cloud seeding missions were done by their pilots.
Infrastructure is bad, the UAE has really only existed for like 60 years or something so they didn’t really create full proof infrastructure.
Dubai isnt built for heavy rains. ie, they simply do not have enough drainage. I remember living in Riyadh a few years back, 3 days or so of rain and underpasses were already looking like rivers.
They’re in the desert so they don’t have drainage. That same rain in Miami wouldn’t have come close to flooding.
Weather of any kind requires care put into construction. It’s expensive to make a building that can handle literally every kind of weather and for the most part it’s utterly pointless. For example, if you’re building a house in Moscow you don’t need to design it for 35+ degree weather, much like how in Cairo you don’t need to design for -20 degree weather. All that you’d accomplish by swinging for such unreasonable extremes would be wasting a lot of money.
Dubai is in a desert. The key thing that defines a desert is that it has extremely low amounts of rain. There’s no way that they would have invested in the infrastructure to handle the rain they just got, because why would they? They’re *in a desert*.
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