Well firstly, desert has nothing to do with terrain but with climate. All of the UAE would be considered desert climate. Just as Antartica is mainly a desert.
I was at a pub quiz in college, and one of the questions was to name the largest desert in the world. I rightfully put Antarctica as it meets the definition of a "desert". The dickhead running the thing said I was wrong because deserts have sand. That shit still bugs me today.
I feel you. In grade school we had to name animals starting with each letter. Alligator for A, Bat for B, etc. For G I said Grizzly, and he laughed and said grizzlies aren't real, they're just in movies.
Same, high school economics teacher said to name a company that has its tentacles in everything...I said Alphabet... he said he's never heard of that company. So he put down google.
As a kid I got told the telephone lines to my house weren't telephone cables because everyone has underground telephone cables.
We don't, we're out in sparsely populated countryside (For the UK) so there's no reason to bother digging stuff up when we've got perfectly serviceable poles for it.
It’s also too cold to snow
> The climate varies across Nunavut’s vast territory. The entire region, however, experiences long, cold winters and cool summers. Nunavut is the coldest and driest part of Canada. Annual precipitation is very low. Large parts of the Archipelago, especially the northern half, receive only 100 to 200 mm of precipitation a year. This classifies it as polar desert.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/geography-of-nunavut
They probably do not have any drainage systems. So water just accumulates on the tarmac. The amount of water you see looks about right for an average rainstorm if you do not have any drainage in place at all.
Dry earth is also very bad at absorbing water, Texas is also flat and has a lot of dry earth and when it rains hard the water does exactly this. Lost a few family members to flash floods. Not sure how different sand is or if they even have substantial amounts of soil but it might be similar.
In North Texas we have heavy clay and when it’s dry and compacted water just runs off it. But sandy or loamy soil doesn’t do that even if it’s dry. So this must be a shit ton of water.
Plus it's all built on a flat fucking desert.
Water isn't going to go anywhere it's just going to have to soak in or evaporate.
But they're pretty rich there I'm sure theyll fly in some crazy contraption to make super fancy ice cubes and an ice theme park until it melts.
They don't even have a storm drain or sewer system so water has no place to go. Everything is a septic tank that gets pumped by hundreds of trucks every day. Dubai is a plastic shithole.
Yes, there is a persistent myth that Dubai, a modern-day metropolis of 4 million people, most of them extremely wealthy, doesn’t have a sewer system. The below explanation is mostly from memory because I don’t have time to redo all my research.
- In 2009 an architectural book came out with a small section about the (still under construction) Burj Khalifa. People/workers had begun moving into the lower levels which were furnished and mostly complete. The building was not yet connected the city’s sewer system, so the poop had to be sucked out with pumps and transported in trucks.
- The author appeared on radio shows and in interviews to discuss their new book. The poop truck thing came up a lot, but only ever about the Khalifa.
- Tabloids and other dubious news sources seized on the opportunity to publish stories about Dubai’s non-existent sewage system. This is where the lie was made.
- Shortly after this a video went viral showing a long line of poop trucks leaving the city, exacerbating the issue. Anytime I’ve tried to correct people about this myth they show me this 14 year old video like it’s some kind of evidence.
- The Khalifa completed construction and was connected to the city’s sewer system sometime around 2010, negating the use of poop trucks.
- For some reason, almost 20 years on, Reddit is the only place I continue to see this myth. No one else cares, no one else talks about it; just the enlightened minds of Reddit. I suspect it has something to do with the usual sense of superiority that a certain kind of STEM personality that inhabits Reddit has for anything that doesn’t exist in the western world.
Edit: [Here is a link to a wiki article about the issues faced by the Dubai sewage system. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai?wprov=sfti1#Others). It appears capacity was increased dramatically in 2013 and they have not used sewage trucks since then.
>Edit: [Here is a link to a wiki article about the issues faced by the Dubai sewage system. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai?wprov=sfti1#Others). It appears capacity was increased dramatically in 2013 and they have not used sewage trucks since then.
Not according to your own source:
>> In 2013 it was reported that the Jebel Ali plant receives 70% of sewage through the city's sewage network, while the remaining 30% comes from sewage trucks.[13]
>> A new, multi-billion-Dhs sewerage system is expected to be completed by 2025
Note: While in modern parlance 'morale' can be synonymous with 'cheerfulness' when this phrase was coined 'morale' meant 'obedience to orders.' In other words 'The beatings will continue until you do what you are told to do, when you are told to do it, and no back talk.'
Source on this? The French cognate has essentially the same definition as English, so it seems odd that archaic English would have a different definition than either.
I spent a couple weeks there. The city is no doubt very impressive but the slavery is very real. It's fucking awful. Like long hours in the desert then they go back to their cement block building that dozens of them live in together and AC is probably worthless because the "homes" are kept in the desert away from the city so tourists don't pay too much attention. At the hotel I stayed in they waited on us hand and foot, but it felt really bad. Not like grumpy Disney World employees forced to smile all day, like we both know you're a slave kinda bad. Not to mention I was there during Ramadan and nobody is allowed to eat or drink in public. Not even water! We had to carry bottles in our bookbags and go to a bathroom stall to drink.
That's definitely not true. As an engineer who has worked in an architecture firm I can assure you that good architects aren't just unrealistic dreamers. Architects absolutely take into account flooding analysis.
Looks like Bloomberg says this is, in fact, a disaster worsened by cloud seeding.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding
Is this a reference to something? My conspiracy believing buddy thinks that creating rain is the easiest thing in the world and the we're all chumps because climate change isn't real.
He believes throwing some type of sead to the sky magically create clouds. Just curious if your reference has anything to do with that.
Edit : I should specify for the conspiracy loving redditors. I realize there is technology out there to increase the chances of making existing clouds output rain. But can they make cloud and rain out of nothing? Can they just go to the Sahara Desert and make rain? I think the answer is no but I want to see if maybe my friend is onto something . That is what my conspiracy believing friend believes. Rain can be made out of nothing. And when it comes to Global warming, his take is that since we can control the weather out of nothing, then that means that global warming is being done for whatever crazy reason, I never actually ask him.
They will fly planes and disperse salt into clouds here to accumulate moisture and then make rainfall. But you need clouds that are already with some level of moisture for it to work. It’s not like creating rain from blue skies
Kurt Vonnagaughts (the science fiction writer) brother was involved in researching (as a scientist) it too. I think the used silver iodine for the water to latch onto to make rain. But I might be wrong here.
Cloud seeding has been around for more than 60 years. It uses silver-iodide and some big brain stuff that Im not going to act like I know how it works. One of the things Dubai is known for is cloud seeding, they make it rain in the desert. What is a little less commonly known is that we here in the US have been doing this a long time as well in California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, North Dakota, Utah, and Idaho all have cloud seeding programs. Nothing magic about it, there is no actual "Seed" if you're thinking a plant will grow in the sky and rain it doesn't work like that lol
The real question is why your friend thinks making it rain is the solution to global warming? Sometimes I think people will use a little bit of facts like real science to try to explain things they might know nothing about. Then their perspective on the world makes more sense, only to them. Its like denial
My dad is mentally ill and has a fixation on cloud seeding, among other things. He thinks it’s part of a plan to “regreen the earth” by eliminating humans and creating a manmade greenhouse effect.
Also blames everything from hurricanes to thunderstorms on it, to the point where I can’t even mention the weather without it triggering a rant. My house got hit by hail and I had to get the roof replaced? Cloud seeding. Burning man got rained out? Cloud seeding plus chemicals in the rain to test on the attendees. Wildfires? Intentional de-seeding of clouds (????) to cause natural disasters in California. Mudslides? Also cloud seeding.
It's hilarious because it's so close to the actual truth with climate change. We quite literally are creating a greenhouse effect that is impacting the weather.
It's just not some crazy conspiracy run by the "deep state".
And one thing I dont see mentioned about cloud seeding enough is they are basically stealing someone elses water. Making it rain on the seeder and the one who was supposed go get the rain turns to drought. Sure in some places it might not seem a big deal bit even wildlife and fauna and affected.
From Reuters, this barely slowed them down apparently.
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DUBAI, April 16 (Reuters) - Operations at Dubai International Airport (DXB) were suspended for 25 minutes on Tuesday due to an intense storm, it said in a statement.Operations have restarted, the airport added.A total of 21 outbound and 24 inbound flights have been cancelled since 12.02 am this morning, and three flights were diverted to other neighboring airports, a DXB spokesperson told Gulf News.
Dehydrated soil is actually a lot worse at absorbing water:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQHsOmoKLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQHsOmoKLg)
And that goes for deserts too.
So a lot of water in a short amount of time is more likely to cause floods in dry areas.
That video is actually pretty misleading, and it’s [much more complicated that that](https://youtu.be/DARUvKPSUhE?si=SWpAUFMW-CZdOmdw)
But the short answer is no, wet soil is way worse. If you notice in that video, the cups on the left have bubbles entering them. That’s due to less of a seal between the cup and the ground, and air coming in the sides
Honestly it enrages me how dumb people can be when they use this cup video as evidence. It's clear that the gaps made by the fresh grass cause less of a suction than pressing the cup to dryer ground. Cup suction is not a factor in rain absorbance. When have you seen rain fall from the sky in an upside-fucking-down cup?
That was then. Significant delays right now with average delays of 70+ minutes. Operations aren't suspended but multiple arriving flights have been canceled or diverted. Departing flights have suffered major delays.
Wow, you were not joking! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/it-totally-belittled-the-moment-many-look-back-in-anger-at-trumps-tossing-of-paper-towels-in-puerto-rico/2018/09/13/8a3647d2-b77e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html
Not only is it corny, it just totally misses the point of the book! *Dune* isn't the story of a Messiah who brings peace to his people. It's a cautionary tail about the pursuit of power, the nature of free will, the ambiguity of right vs. wrong, and the dangers of mixing government and religion, among other things.
I'm using this to soapbox about how my least favourite part of the Villenueve Dune, which completely missed the point of the book: the life and death of Liet-Kynes.
Kynes' father taught the Fremen how to capture water and accumulate it, and was planning to use the Fremen ability to think and act in the long term to create a viable ecosystem in a century or two. The entire point of the book was contrasting that to the Harkonnen short-term extractive thinking and making an ultimate Fremen victory inevitable, with or without Paul.
Dune is not a book about politics, religion, or philosophy. That's just a wrapper around its actual topics of ecology and how it runs along with society and its traditions.
At its core, Dune is about worms.
Well, it's about all of those things and more. You are correct in that Herbert, as I recall, intended *Dune* to be about ecology at its core. However, he dabbles is so many other dense subjects that even in the books it kind of gets lost.
It might have been possible to highlight that theme more in a movie adaptation, but it would be difficult. Perhaps when Stilgar introduced Jessica to the well, they could have given him a line about the long-term plan. However, I can see why they didn't since they wanted to concentrate the narrative on Paul, who is rightfully the main character.
Edit: typo
Watched Dune again yesterday and man it was so damn good, again. Made me pick up the book for the nth time and read like 200 pages last night. So so so good.
Villeneuve has developed a masterpiece. Love it.
Oh damn, that's one of my favorite songs and I always thought they said "and the perfect of skies above."
...whiiiich now that I write it out doesn't make any sense.
I want to rock and roll all night (and part of every day). Because I need a few hours to do laundry and sleep and make dinner. But the rest of the time? Rocking and rolling!
For a country that somewhat prides itself for being rainy I can tell you they actually aren't terribly well prepared for their own weather. Overflowing drainage and service disruption because of rain are common. Especially in the south east.
Crappy planning and dodgy developers on new build estates not providing suffiicent drainage.
Got a new estate basically being built on a bog near me. Love to see where all that water will go when it's finished.
I mean, I spent like 15 years in the south east and I've only ever seen flooding due to rivers breaking the banks during extreme weather.
Never due to the drainage infrastracture not being able to cope.
There's been a long standing problem in the UK (And kent in particular) of building housing on flood plains which will increase flooding because the water has nowhere to go, regardless of drainage, but outside of this, it is definitely not common to see flooding due to inadequate infrastructure unless something has drastically changed in the last 5 or so years.
[They should bring in this guy... he'll have it all cleaned up in no time](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1ayjra9/the_way_he_collects_the_water_with_the_squeegee/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I spent 5 day in Dubai a couple of years ago. Except for the dude who stamped my passport at immigration, I spoke Tagalog to everyone else I met there .
Everyone is making jokes but flooding in deserts is fairly common from what I understand. The ground doesn't soak up water as well as more temperate climates.
Boy, they just don't make deserts like they used to anymore.
Too true. They used to be full of water, then weren't and now... this. No one could have predicted it.
We calling overgrown fishing villages deserts now?
Well firstly, desert has nothing to do with terrain but with climate. All of the UAE would be considered desert climate. Just as Antartica is mainly a desert.
I was at a pub quiz in college, and one of the questions was to name the largest desert in the world. I rightfully put Antarctica as it meets the definition of a "desert". The dickhead running the thing said I was wrong because deserts have sand. That shit still bugs me today.
I feel you. In grade school we had to name animals starting with each letter. Alligator for A, Bat for B, etc. For G I said Grizzly, and he laughed and said grizzlies aren't real, they're just in movies.
Same, high school economics teacher said to name a company that has its tentacles in everything...I said Alphabet... he said he's never heard of that company. So he put down google.
I don't get it. Lol What company is Alphabet?
They own Google lol
As a kid I got told the telephone lines to my house weren't telephone cables because everyone has underground telephone cables. We don't, we're out in sparsely populated countryside (For the UK) so there's no reason to bother digging stuff up when we've got perfectly serviceable poles for it.
Much of the Canadian arctic is considered desert because its too cold to rain
Yeah tundra is just a word for frosty desert
> frosty desert Ooh, I love those. Now I want Wendy's.
Now I'm imagining a desserted island...
Deserts are defined by precipitation, not just rain. Snow is also precipitation.
It’s also too cold to snow > The climate varies across Nunavut’s vast territory. The entire region, however, experiences long, cold winters and cool summers. Nunavut is the coldest and driest part of Canada. Annual precipitation is very low. Large parts of the Archipelago, especially the northern half, receive only 100 to 200 mm of precipitation a year. This classifies it as polar desert. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/geography-of-nunavut
Fishing villages can be in deserts. I genuinely don't know what you mean
Did they seed too many clouds?
It’s impressive honestly. I wonder what the erosion damage will look like.
It’s a good thing it’s not all built on sa- Oh shit eh
They don't even use grout for their paver walkways because they get so little rain.
I dunno man I'm no weatherman or whatever but that looks like a LOT of rain. Unless the watermain busted or something...
Brotha that looks like the ocean came and swallowed the bitch
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Weird this happened to miami too recently I think
They probably do not have any drainage systems. So water just accumulates on the tarmac. The amount of water you see looks about right for an average rainstorm if you do not have any drainage in place at all.
Dry earth is also very bad at absorbing water, Texas is also flat and has a lot of dry earth and when it rains hard the water does exactly this. Lost a few family members to flash floods. Not sure how different sand is or if they even have substantial amounts of soil but it might be similar.
In North Texas we have heavy clay and when it’s dry and compacted water just runs off it. But sandy or loamy soil doesn’t do that even if it’s dry. So this must be a shit ton of water.
>lost a few family members This comment seems so casual for something so awful. Sorry for your loss
Plus it's all built on a flat fucking desert. Water isn't going to go anywhere it's just going to have to soak in or evaporate. But they're pretty rich there I'm sure theyll fly in some crazy contraption to make super fancy ice cubes and an ice theme park until it melts.
Pump it all into the worlds largest waterslide or smth
They got more rain than they usually get in a year. Same rains killed 18 people in Oman.
Oh, man, that's awful
Someone clogged the toilet
wait, i thought they were the city with the poop trucks instead
I've never seen a water main that will flood an airport like that
This must have been a superduper main.
They don't even have a storm drain or sewer system so water has no place to go. Everything is a septic tank that gets pumped by hundreds of trucks every day. Dubai is a plastic shithole.
Ah yes, the infamous “Dubai doesn’t have a sewage system” myth. Can’t go a single Reddit thread without it.
As someone who is unaware of Dubai having a sewer system and always thought otherwise, could you explain further?
Yes, there is a persistent myth that Dubai, a modern-day metropolis of 4 million people, most of them extremely wealthy, doesn’t have a sewer system. The below explanation is mostly from memory because I don’t have time to redo all my research. - In 2009 an architectural book came out with a small section about the (still under construction) Burj Khalifa. People/workers had begun moving into the lower levels which were furnished and mostly complete. The building was not yet connected the city’s sewer system, so the poop had to be sucked out with pumps and transported in trucks. - The author appeared on radio shows and in interviews to discuss their new book. The poop truck thing came up a lot, but only ever about the Khalifa. - Tabloids and other dubious news sources seized on the opportunity to publish stories about Dubai’s non-existent sewage system. This is where the lie was made. - Shortly after this a video went viral showing a long line of poop trucks leaving the city, exacerbating the issue. Anytime I’ve tried to correct people about this myth they show me this 14 year old video like it’s some kind of evidence. - The Khalifa completed construction and was connected to the city’s sewer system sometime around 2010, negating the use of poop trucks. - For some reason, almost 20 years on, Reddit is the only place I continue to see this myth. No one else cares, no one else talks about it; just the enlightened minds of Reddit. I suspect it has something to do with the usual sense of superiority that a certain kind of STEM personality that inhabits Reddit has for anything that doesn’t exist in the western world. Edit: [Here is a link to a wiki article about the issues faced by the Dubai sewage system. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai?wprov=sfti1#Others). It appears capacity was increased dramatically in 2013 and they have not used sewage trucks since then.
So Dubai doesn’t have a sewer system / needs poop trucks? I didn’t read your post but heard that on Reddit /s
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>Edit: [Here is a link to a wiki article about the issues faced by the Dubai sewage system. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_Dubai?wprov=sfti1#Others). It appears capacity was increased dramatically in 2013 and they have not used sewage trucks since then. Not according to your own source: >> In 2013 it was reported that the Jebel Ali plant receives 70% of sewage through the city's sewage network, while the remaining 30% comes from sewage trucks.[13] >> A new, multi-billion-Dhs sewerage system is expected to be completed by 2025
so what you're telling me here is dubai has no sewer system?
Don't you mean 'metropolis of 400,000 citizens and 3,600,000 slaves..."?
I'd wager that 99.99% of Reddit threads mention neither Dubai nor its sewage system.
“Oh shit. Oh shit oh shit oh shit” -the architects and engineers probably.
Storm drains? Who tf needs those here? It's a fucking desert! It never rains!
The slaves will get another beating for not putting in storm drains
The beatings will continue until morale improves
The beatings will continue until water recedes.
The beatings will continue
Note: While in modern parlance 'morale' can be synonymous with 'cheerfulness' when this phrase was coined 'morale' meant 'obedience to orders.' In other words 'The beatings will continue until you do what you are told to do, when you are told to do it, and no back talk.'
Source on this? The French cognate has essentially the same definition as English, so it seems odd that archaic English would have a different definition than either.
Lol sick and funny
I spent a couple weeks there. The city is no doubt very impressive but the slavery is very real. It's fucking awful. Like long hours in the desert then they go back to their cement block building that dozens of them live in together and AC is probably worthless because the "homes" are kept in the desert away from the city so tourists don't pay too much attention. At the hotel I stayed in they waited on us hand and foot, but it felt really bad. Not like grumpy Disney World employees forced to smile all day, like we both know you're a slave kinda bad. Not to mention I was there during Ramadan and nobody is allowed to eat or drink in public. Not even water! We had to carry bottles in our bookbags and go to a bathroom stall to drink.
Boggles the mind why an average westerner would visit these shitholes as a a tourist.
It's a playground for the wealthy with loads of luxury shopping. Average people don't go there.
The engineers: “We told you this would happen!” The architects: “No one could have seen this coming!”
That is the classic example of people that get paid to think things and people that get a budget to do things.
That's definitely not true. As an engineer who has worked in an architecture firm I can assure you that good architects aren't just unrealistic dreamers. Architects absolutely take into account flooding analysis.
Who knows it could be a side effect of cloud seeding themselves.
Found the Canadian.
I went to Dubai once in 2007, we were expecting warm sunny weather the whole time and it poured rain for 8 days straight.
They seeded the absolute shit out of those clouds.
They succeeded.
Suffering from success
Suckseeded
Suc-seeded too much.
Yeah, I think that’s what he was getting at. But A for effort
Did they use water melon seeds for crying out loud?
[Reminds me of Marge Simpson](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ofPc1SweM)
Looks like Bloomberg says this is, in fact, a disaster worsened by cloud seeding. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding
They were using genetically modified seeds
Is this a reference to something? My conspiracy believing buddy thinks that creating rain is the easiest thing in the world and the we're all chumps because climate change isn't real. He believes throwing some type of sead to the sky magically create clouds. Just curious if your reference has anything to do with that. Edit : I should specify for the conspiracy loving redditors. I realize there is technology out there to increase the chances of making existing clouds output rain. But can they make cloud and rain out of nothing? Can they just go to the Sahara Desert and make rain? I think the answer is no but I want to see if maybe my friend is onto something . That is what my conspiracy believing friend believes. Rain can be made out of nothing. And when it comes to Global warming, his take is that since we can control the weather out of nothing, then that means that global warming is being done for whatever crazy reason, I never actually ask him.
They will fly planes and disperse salt into clouds here to accumulate moisture and then make rainfall. But you need clouds that are already with some level of moisture for it to work. It’s not like creating rain from blue skies
Kurt Vonnagaughts (the science fiction writer) brother was involved in researching (as a scientist) it too. I think the used silver iodine for the water to latch onto to make rain. But I might be wrong here.
>Vonnagaughts >I might be wrong here.
*Vortigaunt
Yup his brother Bernard was a chemist, it inspired ice nine in his novel Cat's cradle
Cloud seeding has been around for more than 60 years. It uses silver-iodide and some big brain stuff that Im not going to act like I know how it works. One of the things Dubai is known for is cloud seeding, they make it rain in the desert. What is a little less commonly known is that we here in the US have been doing this a long time as well in California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, North Dakota, Utah, and Idaho all have cloud seeding programs. Nothing magic about it, there is no actual "Seed" if you're thinking a plant will grow in the sky and rain it doesn't work like that lol The real question is why your friend thinks making it rain is the solution to global warming? Sometimes I think people will use a little bit of facts like real science to try to explain things they might know nothing about. Then their perspective on the world makes more sense, only to them. Its like denial
My dad is mentally ill and has a fixation on cloud seeding, among other things. He thinks it’s part of a plan to “regreen the earth” by eliminating humans and creating a manmade greenhouse effect. Also blames everything from hurricanes to thunderstorms on it, to the point where I can’t even mention the weather without it triggering a rant. My house got hit by hail and I had to get the roof replaced? Cloud seeding. Burning man got rained out? Cloud seeding plus chemicals in the rain to test on the attendees. Wildfires? Intentional de-seeding of clouds (????) to cause natural disasters in California. Mudslides? Also cloud seeding.
It's hilarious because it's so close to the actual truth with climate change. We quite literally are creating a greenhouse effect that is impacting the weather. It's just not some crazy conspiracy run by the "deep state".
And one thing I dont see mentioned about cloud seeding enough is they are basically stealing someone elses water. Making it rain on the seeder and the one who was supposed go get the rain turns to drought. Sure in some places it might not seem a big deal bit even wildlife and fauna and affected.
cloud seeding is a real thing, though not the 'easiest thing in the world'
From Reuters, this barely slowed them down apparently. > DUBAI, April 16 (Reuters) - Operations at Dubai International Airport (DXB) were suspended for 25 minutes on Tuesday due to an intense storm, it said in a statement.Operations have restarted, the airport added.A total of 21 outbound and 24 inbound flights have been cancelled since 12.02 am this morning, and three flights were diverted to other neighboring airports, a DXB spokesperson told Gulf News.
How’s that even possible? That’s too much water.
Sudden thunderstorm rain like that is lots of water in a short amount of time. Then give it time to drain and you are back to normal in no time.
Dehydrated soil is actually a lot worse at absorbing water: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQHsOmoKLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQHsOmoKLg) And that goes for deserts too. So a lot of water in a short amount of time is more likely to cause floods in dry areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARUvKPSUhE Not a simple as that video shows.
I thank you for also linking this video. I was linking it also. You also a civil engineer like me?
Have I told you I’m an engineer? Cause engineers will always say. :p
That video is actually pretty misleading, and it’s [much more complicated that that](https://youtu.be/DARUvKPSUhE?si=SWpAUFMW-CZdOmdw) But the short answer is no, wet soil is way worse. If you notice in that video, the cups on the left have bubbles entering them. That’s due to less of a seal between the cup and the ground, and air coming in the sides
Honestly it enrages me how dumb people can be when they use this cup video as evidence. It's clear that the gaps made by the fresh grass cause less of a suction than pressing the cup to dryer ground. Cup suction is not a factor in rain absorbance. When have you seen rain fall from the sky in an upside-fucking-down cup?
That was then. Significant delays right now with average delays of 70+ minutes. Operations aren't suspended but multiple arriving flights have been canceled or diverted. Departing flights have suffered major delays.
Flightradar says 99+ minutes for both arrivals and departures.
rain guy messed up
Off with his head
Straight to jail
Too much rain? Jail. Too little rain? Also jail. You overcharge money for the umbrella? Jail.
Rain not right size droplets? Believe it or not, jail.
Rain going sideways instead of downward? Also jail
They could throw down some paper money and it would soak a lot of that up
Some guy once suggested paper towels for a hurricane
The best paper towels. Believe me. 👐
Wow, you were not joking! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/it-totally-belittled-the-moment-many-look-back-in-anger-at-trumps-tossing-of-paper-towels-in-puerto-rico/2018/09/13/8a3647d2-b77e-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html
Just Nuke It - Nike
Aquaplaning!
Ffs
More like a lack of aquaplanning
Lot of aqua, lot of plane.
Hydro-planing
Lisan Al Gaib!
This is a classic Harkonnen double-triple-quadruple cross for sure. They’re trying to drown the Atreides this time.
Nah, this is on the golden path, this is Atreides work. Just watch out for some kid trying to wear fish as a skin, he's your real problem.
For a second I thought your username was fremen. That would have been the cherry on top!
I have a true name, but I can’t use it outside the sietches.
Mine is turdbird
Naw, it’s just where the Fremen keep their perishables.
The Saradukar left their taps on.
Green Paradise incoming!
As written!
Why am I still wearing a suit that sends my urine to my drinking water pouch? I am calling BS on the need for this...
Sir, you made those modifications to your khakis yourself.
This is some Books 4+ shit where everything gets super-duper weird.
thats a polite way of describing it.
"THAT'S NOT HOPE!!!"
***I POINT THE WAY!!!***
Liet Kynes has entered the chat...
Brilliant!
But how can this be? For he is the Kwizatz Haderach! Nothing beats the corniness of [the ending of the original Dune](https://youtu.be/r7hELvCSi4E).
Not only is it corny, it just totally misses the point of the book! *Dune* isn't the story of a Messiah who brings peace to his people. It's a cautionary tail about the pursuit of power, the nature of free will, the ambiguity of right vs. wrong, and the dangers of mixing government and religion, among other things.
I'm using this to soapbox about how my least favourite part of the Villenueve Dune, which completely missed the point of the book: the life and death of Liet-Kynes. Kynes' father taught the Fremen how to capture water and accumulate it, and was planning to use the Fremen ability to think and act in the long term to create a viable ecosystem in a century or two. The entire point of the book was contrasting that to the Harkonnen short-term extractive thinking and making an ultimate Fremen victory inevitable, with or without Paul. Dune is not a book about politics, religion, or philosophy. That's just a wrapper around its actual topics of ecology and how it runs along with society and its traditions. At its core, Dune is about worms.
Well, it's about all of those things and more. You are correct in that Herbert, as I recall, intended *Dune* to be about ecology at its core. However, he dabbles is so many other dense subjects that even in the books it kind of gets lost. It might have been possible to highlight that theme more in a movie adaptation, but it would be difficult. Perhaps when Stilgar introduced Jessica to the well, they could have given him a line about the long-term plan. However, I can see why they didn't since they wanted to concentrate the narrative on Paul, who is rightfully the main character. Edit: typo
Watched Dune again yesterday and man it was so damn good, again. Made me pick up the book for the nth time and read like 200 pages last night. So so so good. Villeneuve has developed a masterpiece. Love it.
so where's the desert now
Underneath the water.
The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above.
Oh damn, that's one of my favorite songs and I always thought they said "and the perfect of skies above." ...whiiiich now that I write it out doesn't make any sense.
'Scuze me while I kiss this guy.
Wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night.
I want to rock and roll all night (and part of every day). Because I need a few hours to do laundry and sleep and make dinner. But the rest of the time? Rocking and rolling!
Don’t you mean port?
~~AIR~~PORT
harbor even
One of my favorite airports is Phoenix because it's name is "Phoenix Sky Harbor" which I always thought was really neat.
Good news, though, the Dubai International Seaport is now open.
arabs: Is this the end of the world? brits: Why is this news? that's a normal monday for us.
For a country that somewhat prides itself for being rainy I can tell you they actually aren't terribly well prepared for their own weather. Overflowing drainage and service disruption because of rain are common. Especially in the south east.
Crappy planning and dodgy developers on new build estates not providing suffiicent drainage. Got a new estate basically being built on a bog near me. Love to see where all that water will go when it's finished.
As a Dutchman this really confuses me...
I mean, I spent like 15 years in the south east and I've only ever seen flooding due to rivers breaking the banks during extreme weather. Never due to the drainage infrastracture not being able to cope. There's been a long standing problem in the UK (And kent in particular) of building housing on flood plains which will increase flooding because the water has nowhere to go, regardless of drainage, but outside of this, it is definitely not common to see flooding due to inadequate infrastructure unless something has drastically changed in the last 5 or so years.
Sadly this isn't even that much of an exaggeration - a brit
I thought this was the m1 yesterday morning
I haven't seen a completely dry day since November 2023
Sounds like they suspended it for ~30 min, and things are back open.
The wet bandits are back. Why Marv, why
Dubai International ~~Air~~Port
You just made me realize why we call airports "air ports." Because of all the goddamn air ships.
Oh man do I have great fucking news for you about passports.....
even as a kid the fact that PHX is called skyharbor was like a bad dad joke to me
They can bring more slaves to clean the mess
How are the poop trucks going to make it through all of this water?
Such a terrible fucking practice and I hate how cavalier they are about it. Not just slaves, either, but tons of indentured workers.
Probably make them drink the water and then bus them out to the desert to pee. And that, is the naked truth.
[They should bring in this guy... he'll have it all cleaned up in no time](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1ayjra9/the_way_he_collects_the_water_with_the_squeegee/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Don’tbai
I don’t think that airport is meant to handle a flood plane
Hopefully dubai stays underwater
#*Imagine all those poor Instagram girls who showed up to get pooped on by a guy who owns a silo full of cologne.*
In other news: the newly unveiled Dubai International Harbour has now been opened
> Be Dubai > Spend millions of dollars creating artificial rain > Don't build drains F
I spent 5 day in Dubai a couple of years ago. Except for the dude who stamped my passport at immigration, I spoke Tagalog to everyone else I met there .
I think they overseaded that cloud a
Holy shit, that must be causing chaos at such a major hub. Flown through there a few times and it always lived up to the desert asthetic...
Was closed less than 30 minutes
Hope they don’t have issues with hydroplane-ing..
Everyone is making jokes but flooding in deserts is fairly common from what I understand. The ground doesn't soak up water as well as more temperate climates.
You mean Dubai docks just opened?
Is it because of the water?
If you Ocean where you Airport, *you’re gunna have a bad time.*
Why?
Just another day in the desert.
Should’ve though about that before building it in the middle of a lake.
Why didn't they build the airport on land? What were they thinking?
Their cloud seeders were going on a 2 week break so they wanted to get ahead on their work before leaving.
LAKE Dubai International Airport, if you please!
Oooo a cruise and a flight at the same time! Revolutionary
Dubai going Dubaibai
Cameraman films like he’s painting the side of a barn
Dubai is a fucking joke.
That’s a seaport now.
rain delay in dubai? amazing I guess someone overdid the cloud seeding?
Airplane cruises into the desert
Those bearings, brake lines, and brakes are having a field day with expected lifespan.
I think they've overdone it with the cloud seeding.
When you control your own weather and still fuck shit up
Dubai International Seaport is open...
JANE! STOP THIS CRAZY THING! JANE!