It has been a wet week in Dubai, with unprecedented rainfall and flooding through the desert oasis and other emirates. The picture and video emerging, like one of an Emirates flight attendant braving the floodwaters, are a poignant reminder of how unpredictable weather can be.
As Flooding Overwhelms Dubai, Emirates Flight Attendant Faces Rain With Style
A storm dumped record rain this week across the United Arab Emirates, including massive flooding in Dubai. Labeled “a historic weather event” not seen since records began in 1949, rains hit Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia…but particularly hit Dubai hard.
For some perspective, as of last night, more than 142 millimeters (5.59 inches) of rainfall had soaked Dubai over the prior 24-hour period. Dubai typically sees only 94.7 millimeters (3.73 inches) of rain per year!
The flash floods overwhelmed infrastructure and led to several flight delays, including a United Airlines 777 flight from Newark that diverted to Muscat, Oman (MCT) but remains on the ground.
But as flights gradually resume despite the water not yet receding, a video of an Emirates flight attendant braving the knee-deep water says it all about the professionalism of that cadre of workers.
For my many readers in Dubai, I’ve seen the videos of flooding and wish you all the best…stay safe.
Did the money-boys seed the clouds ?
Emirates is the best.
Floods happen rather quickly in the desert. Surprise! Surprise! Looks like the climate is changing. As was predicted by scientists. I would love to hear how the Dubai Airport has handled this. Pics too.
Meanwhile in the US, flight attendants here would demand a yacht to the airport along with triple hazard pay for all future days with rain in the forecast.
Don’t forget water boarding pay
@Cr
Actually “Alert” is correct….. the UAE are big proponents of cloud seeding and man made weather modification…… every few years it backfires
Actually…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/cloud-seeding-dubai-floods
If you’ve ever lived there you’d know the place has ridiculous floods every few years and is ill equipped with all the drainages filled with sand, piss poor planning with vast swaths of new impermeable surfaces…and in every instance the cloud seeding/weather modification is quickly exonerated (within 48 hrs with no research or countervailing view able to be expressed) and the blame placed on climate change…..which for that region is predicted to bring DRYER and HOTTER conditions…..When you tinker with the weather it will bite you back…. this weather pattern was the typical Dubai pattern that brings days of rain just to a narrow band of land…when you increase the condensation nuclei in the already moist air this happens, when you pave over vast amounts of desert without respect to the natural drainage gullies and basins this tends to happen…..but it’s easier and it feeds the world’s confirmation bias just to go with climate change.
Rain bomb it is. Surprised about the diversion to Oman as I’ve heard they had 18 storm related deaths reported. As for wading in flood water, that is dangerous! My thoughts are with you
I was stuck at FLL last April when they had a 100 year rain event in a day and sympathize with these folks, it definitely sucks. Walked my way down the access road that was clogged with flooded and broken down cars, through a flood, under runway 28L, and across a railroad track to get to US 1 with moving vehicle traffic.
They are all heroes, as far as I am concerned.
It “led to several flight delays” is something of an understatement.
Over 1,200 flights were cancelled and 40+ diverted. Not just the couple mentioned.