Dubai roads, airport reel from floods after record rains

Dubai's giant highways were clogged by flooding and its major airport was in chaos as the Middle East financial centre remained gridlocked on Wednesday, a day after the heaviest rains on record.

Power outages were reported around Dubai, which was dotted with flooded areas and submerged and abandoned cars. One road tunnel near the airport was completely flooded to a depth of several metres . One householder, also requesting anonymity, said he made a small detour on his way home on Tuesday to buy McDonald's for his children, only to get stuck in traffic and finally arrive -- empty-handed -- six hours later.

"Flights continue to be delayed and diverted," a Dubai Airports spokesperson said, calling working conditions"very challenging". "They are completely lost, its complete chaos -- no information, nothing," fumed one passenger, who did not want to be named, after a 12-hour wait. Climatologist Friederike Otto, a specialist in assessing the role of climate change on extreme weather events, told AFP it was"highly likely" that global warming had worsened the storms.

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