Lacking storm drains, Dubai sees persistent flooding

DUBAI – When record downpours sent water flooding into his Dubai home, Riaz Haq expected the levels to drop once it stopped raining. But instead of falling, the water kept rising higher.

"Fridge, freezer, even my car was floating. Everything was floating," he told AFP. "I had a brand new car. It's all ruined."During their ordeal Haq, his wife and their neighbours -- about 18 families in a suburban residential community -- were too scared to wade out through the waist-high, smelly water, fearing electrocution.

Karim Elgendy, associate director at the Buro Happold engineering consultancy, said drainage for storm water had not been widely included in planning for the city, much of which is only a few years old. Without drainage for excess water, authorities rely on pumping trucks to suck it up with giant hoses and drive it away.

Climate change will make extreme weather events more common, Elgendy warned, saying the storm -- which dumped up to two years' worth of rain on the Gulf country -- was consistent with the effects of global warming.

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