Dubai Flooding 2024: government steps in
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Following heavy rain causing severe flooding in the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai, on Tuesday, the government was quick to step in.
The city of Dubai received a typical year’s worth of rain in 24 hours.
The official X (formerly Twitter) account of the Dubai Media Office shared images of teams of different government departments helping during the heavy rain.
In one of the office’s posts on X yesterday, teams of the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority can be seen helping during the rain.
In another, Dubai Municipality’s teams are seen helping.
The office also posted video clips of the Dubai Police’s teams helping out during flooding.
Teams of the General Directorate of Civil Defense in Dubai were also on the ground providing assistance.
The government of Dubai extended remote working for all its employees and urged the private sector to do the same.
At 1:47 in the afternoon, the Dubai Tram was reported to be operating on its usual schedule.
Remote learning was reported to have been extended for private schools for April 18th and 19th.
At 7 PM, Dubai Metro was reported to be operational via some stations.
At the Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest by international passenger traffic, flights were delayed and diverted, prompting the airport authority to advise passengers not to come.
Just minutes ago (at the time of this writing), the airport authority urged passengers not to come to Terminal 1 because of overcrowding.
Featured photo attribution: Jon Gambrell (Source: AP News). Image is licensed under CC BY 4.0 DEED Attribution 4.0 International
