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Dubai flooding amid atypical heavy rains snarls traffic on UAE roads and airport runways
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dubai-flooding-today-heavy-rain-snarls-traffic-uae-roads-and-airport/
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, flooding portions of major highways, leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai and grinding traffic at the city-state’s huge international airport briefly to a complete halt.
The airport said in a series of social media posts that all operations were halted for about 25 minutes on Tuesday afternoon, and that all arrivals would be diverted after that “until the weather conditions improve.”
By the evening, more than 4.75 inches of rainfall had soaked the UAE — the typical average for an entire year in the desert nation — with more expected in the coming hours.
Authorities sent tanker trucks out into the streets to pump away the floodwaters, which poured into some homes, forcing people to grab buckets and pails to try to bail out their houses.
In neighboring Oman, a sultanate that rests on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, at least 18 people had been killed in heavy rains in recent days, according to a Tuesday statement from the country’s National Committee for Emergency Management.
Climatologists have warned for years that human-driven climate change is fueling more extreme and less predictable weather events across the globe.
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