Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates (UAE), dumping more than a year and a half’s rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in just a few hours and flooding major highways and its international airport.
The rains began late on Monday, soaking the sands and roads of Dubai with some 20mm (0.79 inches) of rain, according to meteorological data collected at Dubai International Airport. The storms intensified at about 9am (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday and continued throughout the day, dumping more rain and hail onto the overwhelmed city.
Mother nature is planning to switch off Dubai it seems.
Funny thing about that, wider variability is what we can expect in the weather. So watch now as they don’t get any rain at all for the next two years. I keep a garden, and have a Stratus rain gauge. Last year we were darned close to the historic average, of 12 inches precip. The year before it was 15, well above. The two years prior it was 6 inches each, half the historic average. smh. There’s only so much adaptation we can manage.
And, I wonder if this will convince petrostates that maybe they should do something about this.
They burn fuel like it’s going out of style so good job Earth for shitting back on them.
As the petrocos literally set the world on fire, my one solace is that they still have to live in the world they’ve fucked over.
Floods this time but I hear ya.
Not a lot of sympathy for them about is there?
I get the tone of the conversation here (i.e. “hah, good”), but Dubai is a metaphor-made-real for the future world at this point. The wealthy elite in their glittering towers who gorged on a burning planet are fine. They’re far above the water and their biggest inconvenience is the damp wheels of their nine-litre civilian tanks at the water laps on the twenty-lane highways, and that’s the photo that is being splashed across every page. But their wealth and prosperity was built on the backs of the millions of slaves living in shanties and slums living under those highways and on unpaved wastelands. They’re dead but they’d already been marginalized by the elites to the extent that they were legally not really people anyway. They’re disposable and replaceable, they will be disposed of and replaced.
Any hardship experienced by the elite minority will be borne a thousand times over by the proletariat majority. We really need to be careful what we wish for.
I don’t usually wish drowning on anybody
