lionheart

Please report any major flooding incidents on here. So far, there has been yet more flooding at Dubai Mall, this time not from the Aquarium. Expecting water ingress to affect Dubai Outlet Mall too.

Blue Cat

All clear at the Greens area

lionheart

Emirates Road closed near Sharjah this morning.

lionheart

Obviously nobody else is interested. Anyway, Gulf News say that all schools in Dubai are closed today because of the heavy rain. Odd coz my little one is definitely at school today.

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/ed...-rain-1.589790

Blue Cat

I know I saw that, mine is at school too

lionheart

According to the National, all schools are open
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs....100221835/1010

shiva

my villa is farked, the entire front of the place is apparently a thinly disguised sieve. with the window frames acting as a cunning piece of drainage channel.


oh you meant in town, ah who cares, my house is drowned

hnd

Arabian Ranches seems to be OK. Went to Bur Dubai this am via Emirates Road and Al Ain road and all was clear (apart from a large puddle near Ras al Khor). Returned via SZR and Umm Suqeim and all clear there, too, apart from, again, some large puddles on either side of the roads.

Forecast seems to be ok until Monday pm through Wednesday pm when there's a chance of more rain and thunderstorms:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/...chType=WEATHER

lionheart

Traffic nightmare for workers going home to Sharjah nearly 24 hours after the rainfall. I was in Sharjah Industrial Area this morning, where the water was over 3ft deep in places. Why can't they spend a little more on improving the existing drainage system rather than building new towers and the like?

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/tr...-road-1.590281

Madam Medusa

one of my colleagues took 5 1/2 hours to get home to sharjah last night, what a total sodding mare...you think they would sort this out in the 9+ months of the year when it doesn't rain...

MM, xx

shiva

same reason there isnt a decent sewage system.
they cost money to build and you cant sell em for a profit

TGFKASE

And whats the point of building something that you can't name after Khalifa????

shiva

just caught myself typing a reply I'm fairly certain would have seen me get my free flight home.

TGFKASE

And here we are saying on another thread that we don't believe all that 'they're watching us' crapola...

shiva

people can believe what they want but having dealt with the main man for the internet in dubai (by a fortuitous accident) i aint saying shit along the lines i was heading