Dubai deluged AGAIN just weeks after floods swamped city with flights cancelled & roads impassable

Dubai deluged AGAIN just weeks after floods swamped city with flights cancelled & roads impassable

this is actually really quite concerning this is just the second time in a matter of weeks where we’ve seen Dubai grind to a halt in terms of its airport and its road infrastructure as well people being told to take the metro if they’re trying to get from the city to the airport because roads have become impossible um and it is concerning we are used to seeing Dubai as this you know fabulous sunshine state with you know Golden Sands um and the issue I think here as well is that I think for some British Travelers they’re going to be caught out by not traveling with an EU Airline or a UK Airline or not traveling via a UK or EU airport and because the same passenger rights don’t actually come into play if you look at an airfly like Emirates the biggest airline in Dubai um they don’t have the same rights then um as if you would do if you were flying out of the UK or on a UK Airline it’s not just those trying to head to Dubai um what Emirates have done have made you know transformed Dubai airport into this major Hub it overtook he a couple of years ago as a major hub airport so people are flying to and from other parts of the world very much Long Haul parts of the world via Dubai so when you see these kind of cancellations and delays that we’ve had due to the weather it’s very concerning because people potentially could become stranded places um we don’t have the same rights if you’re not flying out of the EU or UK or you’re not on an EU or UK Airline um the passenger rights are very different then so you’re going to be relying on your travel insurance another reminder it’s always a good idea to make sure you’ve got travel insurance whatever kind of trip you take but particularly if you’re going to be flying Long Haul obviously the weather we’ve seen over the last few weeks has been unprecedented two weeks ago more rain fell than at any other time in recorded history in Dubai um up to a year and a half’s rain in just a couple of days um so this is obviously going to overwhelm many countries but in a country like Dubai where you know the systems were never built in place to cope with large amounts of rain you know here Us in Sunny haha England you know I mean we do have all of the systems in place major Drainage Systems in place to make sure that we can cope with those rains that come very often somewhere like Dubai they don’t have that thing so what we saw in the last few weeks was you know shopping centers being flooded roads being flooded um and it it is very concerning that anyone who’s looking to go I would just make sure that they are keeping in touch with their tour operator or their Airline all the time make sure they’ve got good travel insurance and just keep an eye on the sort of websites for your airline and any travel provider to make sure there’s any updates there on what’s going to be happening sir Tim Clark who’s the CEO of Emirates issued a very unusual apology you know admitting that they had not worked properly to get themselves through this crisis that the delays were too long that people weren’t given enough information they weren’t being helped um a huge apology and say you know we will do better next time so all we can hope is that every time one of these things comes along every time they come to a crisis like this they learn the right lessons and make sure that going forward we don’t see the kind of scenes we saw um two weeks ago in that case it was over 200,000 people affected by the fact that the flights have been canceled over 1500 flights were cancelled and again for a lot of people it’s because they’re flying long haul you know they’re using Dubai as a hub um to fly from Europe to Asia to Australia so it really is quite serious if you are then found you know that your flight is cancelled lots of people found they have problems with their luggage going missing as well so again make sure that you’re sort of double-checking your travel insurance that you’ve got everything you need for that um and if I was traveling as a couple I think definitely the one thing I would say is split all of your clothes all of your possessions between the two cases don’t have a case each split of all of your possessions so if one case does go missing at least you’ve still got the other one and everyone’s still got something to wear jubai has always been this very reliable winter sun destination in summer you know increasingly punishingly hot temperatures um but still somewhere that Brits love to go to you know it’s this sort of a-listed celebrity Central type place that they all want to go to they have invested billions upon billions into making sure that they can draw all of us into this sort of pleasure City with all of these various different fabulous sporting facilities um all of those big names that are coming in that again is a big draw for us we want to go and see our favorite celebrities our favorite sports stars um and it has invested billions in doing that I think what it will now need to do is invest a little bit more in its road infrastructure um in its flood defenses and in basic sewage I think there’s several ways of of approaching cloud seating but the normal approach is you you you take a plane up and you spread Sals in clouds that might be active but you suspect will not produce rain so so in uh arid regions like like the Middle East like the amirat particularly they have a an operational cloud seeding program and what they try and do is they try and Target certain clouds that they think um um might be sensitive to cloud seeding but that but that they predict would not produce any rain and so they fly out and hope to to induce rain in those clouds any smaller small additional rain that they that they get in the in those areas is going to be beneficial of course for them you should realize that cloud seeding operations as they happen now in fact they always say the the effects are very hard to measure in some sense it’s it’s not even very clear whether they are very effective at all they do invest money in it in in countries like the emat simply because any small Improvement is going to be of massive benefit for them but it should be said that the effects are local in time local in space there we we’re not talking about weather modification here perhaps that’s the kind of thing I should say in the 1950s or 60s people were still talking about changing we systems and then sort of doing stuff to the weather cloud seating is not like that at all this is literally Target trying to Target a localized Cloud um in order for it to produce rain because it might otherwise not produce rain it’s a very local uh small scale event any effects will if they occur any effects they they will they will Peter out within an hour or something like that I could fairly say somewhat Limited effectiv is limited in the sense that the effects are hard to measure and from that point of view it’s you know it’s it’s hard to conceive what what goes from people are concerned for example about the salts that are being spread around well the amount of the salts themselves are are either dry eyes or table salt or silver iodide these are have no harms to to to humans at all but furthermore and perhaps even more importantly the amount that is being used during Cloud seaing operations for for example is so small that it is even hard to measure the concentration above background concentrations so that’s an example of where people have this idea like oh you’re sort of messing around with climate you’re you’re chucking all kinds of stuff in the environment it’s you know this is not at all the level or the scale at at which we’re we’re dealing with here at all

TORRENTIAL rain is again battering Dubai just two weeks after severe flooding engulfed the city.

Authorities have issued an emergency public safety alert – warning residents to stay safe as storms sweep across.

On April 14 and 15, Dubai suffered its heaviest rainfall in more than 70 years, sparking what was branded “biblical” flooding.

A year’s worth of rain poured in just 24 hours, with the city woefully unprepared.

An airport was left submerged underwater, roads at a standstill and homes and businesses filled up with water.

It is feared the destructive deluge could end up costing Dubai up to $1billion to clean up damage.

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