A bit of rain in Dubai

I have just had four days off school for half term, and would you believe, just about the whole time it RAINED. I have told many of you on the other occasions it has rained this season, because it is quite a novelty here. On all those other times it's just rained for a couple of hours and stopped. This time though, it just kept raining! Dubai has no drainage system. There are not really any gutters and they certainly don't run off anywhere. All the new areas have been built with little to no thought about where the water is going to go when it does come (which it seems to do once a year). As a result, after just 14.6mm of rain, this is what a lot of areas looked like!

There were also massive problems with many of the newly completed villas, one of my boy's families have been offered alternative accomodation as their villa is so wet inside!
And... On Thursday alone there were 513 road accidents in Dubai! Seems the drivers here think if they put their hazard and fog lights on they are practicing safe driving in the wet skills! Anyway, the rain has gone now and it looks like noone will have these problems again till early next year!
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