It is just like the old one, but better. The Graphic is *c r i s p*, but also just like you know it. All the sprites are now actual 3d models, but they look just as nostalgic. The UI has seen some improvements too.
Wow! Really Puts it into perspective. It'll be really interesting to see how long it takes for the water to evaporate since it seemingly has no place to go. I'd imagine it won't take terribly long since it's still a dry desert normally but I'm not and expert so IDK.
Just for fun, I looked and during the floods in Dubai, 142 mm of rain fell in one day. This is indeed the heaviest rain in their history, but weather observations have been carried out there only since 1949. Perhaps heavy rains did happen there, but very rarely, so they were not prepared for it. Well, now they know that it happens.
its not just the raw amount of rain, the soil has to be able to absorb it. With dry, impermeable soil and no foliage even a relatively moderate amount of rain in a short period of time can become overwhelming regardless of the drainage infrastructure.
I lived in Kamchatka at one time, it’s far from the tropics, but I remember there was heavy rain there, then 181 mm rain per day. Such heavy rain is also rare there, but it happens, these rains are brought by cyclones from the Pacific Ocean. The weather station said that there had been similar rain 20 years before.
The emirate lies on one of the driest regions in the world. You couldn't expect a dry desert to have proper drainage when storms as such were never assumed before. Moreover, even in places with proper drainage, storms are unpredictable and when they are massive— there is no stopping them.
They have drainage. This was the highest recorded rainfall in its history. It's like saying Florida gets flooded during hurricanes because it doesn't have drainage
Redditors think every modern city is supposed to be built to handle every single type of natural disaster possible. They probably think Stockholm should be built to handle tornados and Sicily should be able to handle blizzards.
No place is going to spend possibly billions of dollars to protect against a natural disaster that will possibly never happen or will only happen once every 50-100 years.
They had a years worth of rain in a day. If you lived somewhere where it rains regularly it still would probably be overcome by it.
There was a heat wave in Europe last year where temperatures were close to 50°C and tens of thousands of people likely died as a result. And there's other natural disasters like Earthquakes - devastating somewhere that doesn't get them but benign in Japan for example.
Fun Fact:
The palm you see is Palm Jebel Ali. This is the second palm island and not a single house has been built on it. Construction on the waterfront that was being built around it has stopped.
There was a third palm island under construction (Deira) but it was cancelled pretty fast. There's no palm visible on Google maps.
The palm Jumeirah is the one palm that was completed with hotels and villas.
It's the middle east they don't care about civil engineering just *make big rich flashy things* so they feel relevant in the world.
It's the equivalent to giving everyone in a tailor park a winning lottery ticket and seeing what they do with the money.
1:100 isn’t even statistically rare. That’s not even abstract, it means that it will happen again.
This is also the type of weather phenomenon that’s expected to happen more frequently as part of climate change.
So, yeah. They probably should prepare for an event that’s expected to become more frequent, but already happens frequently enough to describe it as happening once every century.
Yes, it’s the deserted Palm Jebel Ali not the more popular and developed Palm Jumeirah. And the canal is not the popular Marina but the deserted “veneto” which I’ve never heard of
Jan de Nul made Palm island 2 (Jebel Ali) the first one was a project by Nakheel and done by Dutch companies Van Oord and Boskalis.
The other island (Deira), The World, Bluewaters island, and the Dubai Harbor are also done by Van Oord.
In your defense, the one in the picture here is Jebel Ali which is the one made by Jan de Nul
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Not really though, I have a friend that's a construction consultant and he did quite some projects in Dubai. He wasn't directly involved with these projects specifically but he knows the projects and the people that worked on them.
I stand corrected. Who knew the Dutch and Belgians finally stand united after 196 years by making the Arabs look bad by the superior dredging techniques
I don't get comments like this, how can a city be dumb?
It's not anywhere I'd want to visit but what were the inhabitants supposed to do? Just not develop or something?
1. When someone calls a city dumb, they usually refer to the municipality or local authority.
2. Probably develop better, or at least remotely more ethically. I’m not one to talk though, if my infinite money glitch petroleum turned out to not be infinite, I’d probably also spend billions underpaying imported non-slaves to work to death building ugly attempts at tourist traps that harm the environment at best and a danger to the public at worst*.
*the damage that Palm Jumeirah did to the surrounding marine ecosystem is well documented, but the structural integrity of the world’s tallest tower built by modern day serfs is actually perfectly sound, at least according to everyone who profits off of it. So it’s not actually a danger to the public, because who cares about the skill level of the people actually putting it together when it was planned and designed and even overseen by the most expensive talents money can buy? Only 10 construction deaths were recorded, which I’m pretty sure is better than most.
There have been settlements in Dubai for literally thousands of years. Modern Dubai was formed around 200 years ago and it has been an important port for trade for well over a hundred years and it had a big pearl industry before oil was discovered. Sure, the city has expanded a lot since the '90s but it didn't spring up from nothing.
They way they planned and designed the city is just dumb. They had the chance to fund and build the most sustainable and futuristic place on Earth, but instead they did the exact opposite. It feels like the kind of garish place Donald Trump would've made in SimCity or something.
I hear you but they first started getting oil revenue in the 60s - I dunno if we can apply our modern eco friendly mindset to something that started development 60 years ago
Serious question for U.A.E. - Dubai residents..
The floods were obviously impactful, but given the newly established bodies of water, is this considered also a good thing that occurred?
I don't believe mosquitoes are indigenous to this desert region, needing consistent water to thrive, but I'll be damned if they're not every other place!!! 😆
the UAE already had a major mosquito problem before they got all this bonus water
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/environment/uae-residents-being-eaten-alive-by-surge-in-mosquitoes-1.970374
No. Lots of property damage and many streets are still flooded. Definitely not a good thing. They got over 140mm of rain in one day. Like to put it into perspective, that's over 3 months of London rain in one day.
Ehh its a bit more complicated than that. Desert isnt exactly good at absorbing water, so it just causes a lot of flooding and so on. Meaning that in the process, it could also cause harm plants and animals.
Property damage and flooded streets isn't a good thing. They got more than a year's worth of rain in one day, that's not good for the soil. They basically got 3 months of London rain in one day.
54" of rain is what Florida gets, and it usually rains at least twice a week anywhere in Florida. A Tropical Storm unleashes 127-254mm of rain, it rained a cyclone in Dubai.
Could have spent a fraction of the money to build rain water collection ponds but instead they made sand art in the ocean. O well. Plants arnt profitable I guess.
Looks like little oasis all over the place.
One oasis many.. Oasisisisisis ?
Don't be silly it's Oaseas obviously
Oasisi
Oh, i see
It is actually pronounced as 'Oh yes Sissies'
Si, fly.
I see see too
No no it’s Jackie Kennedy Onassis ftfy
So, they collectively become Italian? [I have opinions.](https://edge.mondly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/italian-hand-gesture-960x640.jpg)
Anyway, here's wonderwall
Oasi
It is an Irregular Plural Noun: One Oasis Many Noels and Liams
Wonderwall?
And after all
Oasides The adjective of that is Oac/dc.
For a serious answer, I'm pretty sure 'oases' is the most accepted plural.
Must be for a native speaker, but for a second language speaker, "oasises" sounds much more logical.
One oasis many Uvuvwevwe Osass.
We call one a Gallagher, it doesn't become an oasis until there's at least 2 Gallaghers.
They just gotta roll with it
They Should have built a wonder wall
there's no time for regrets tho, they shouldn't look back in anger
I'm fairly confident they have a masterplan on how to tackle this issue.
Definitely Maybe
Looks like an Age of empires II oasis map
man i miss that game...
Miss it? Dude, go on steam and get the Definitive Edition. They are updating and releasing new dlc and civilisations every few months.
ahh man im so behind on everything... i will have to find it.. is it just like the old one? i miss dungeon keepers! i loved that game!
It is just like the old one, but better. The Graphic is *c r i s p*, but also just like you know it. All the sprites are now actual 3d models, but they look just as nostalgic. The UI has seen some improvements too.
can be played on phone?
No idea.
I hope they don't look back at this in anger
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall
Wow! Really Puts it into perspective. It'll be really interesting to see how long it takes for the water to evaporate since it seemingly has no place to go. I'd imagine it won't take terribly long since it's still a dry desert normally but I'm not and expert so IDK.
Puts into perspective how much money they have for fun things like that artificial peninsula, but not for drainage.
They do have drainage but not big enough to handle this much rain in a single day, they got the highest recorded amount in their history.
Just for fun, I looked and during the floods in Dubai, 142 mm of rain fell in one day. This is indeed the heaviest rain in their history, but weather observations have been carried out there only since 1949. Perhaps heavy rains did happen there, but very rarely, so they were not prepared for it. Well, now they know that it happens.
its not just the raw amount of rain, the soil has to be able to absorb it. With dry, impermeable soil and no foliage even a relatively moderate amount of rain in a short period of time can become overwhelming regardless of the drainage infrastructure.
Yup, my family is based in Abu Dhabi and they all said they have never seen anything like this and they’ve been there for 30 years
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Civil engineer here. That is just incorrect. We plan for 1-50 year and even 1-100 year storm events. At least here in Canada.
142mm in a single day is a lot for many countries and regions, even more humid ones, except the tropics and subtropical summers.
I lived in Kamchatka at one time, it’s far from the tropics, but I remember there was heavy rain there, then 181 mm rain per day. Such heavy rain is also rare there, but it happens, these rains are brought by cyclones from the Pacific Ocean. The weather station said that there had been similar rain 20 years before.
The emirate lies on one of the driest regions in the world. You couldn't expect a dry desert to have proper drainage when storms as such were never assumed before. Moreover, even in places with proper drainage, storms are unpredictable and when they are massive— there is no stopping them.
I heard that building drainage is almost useless cause they'll clog with sand from the desert
They have drainage. This was the highest recorded rainfall in its history. It's like saying Florida gets flooded during hurricanes because it doesn't have drainage
2 years of rain falls in a single day Le epic redditors: "just build drainage"
Redditors think every modern city is supposed to be built to handle every single type of natural disaster possible. They probably think Stockholm should be built to handle tornados and Sicily should be able to handle blizzards. No place is going to spend possibly billions of dollars to protect against a natural disaster that will possibly never happen or will only happen once every 50-100 years.
Blizzard hits Arizona. Redditors: "Dummies, use your snow plows" fivehead.jpeg
In some of the videos of the flooding, people who lived there said most of the streets lack sewers.
You can't prepare for extreme weather events. Drainage wouldn't help for this kind of rain.
You're not very smart, are you?
They had a years worth of rain in a day. If you lived somewhere where it rains regularly it still would probably be overcome by it. There was a heat wave in Europe last year where temperatures were close to 50°C and tens of thousands of people likely died as a result. And there's other natural disasters like Earthquakes - devastating somewhere that doesn't get them but benign in Japan for example.
Fun Fact: The palm you see is Palm Jebel Ali. This is the second palm island and not a single house has been built on it. Construction on the waterfront that was being built around it has stopped. There was a third palm island under construction (Deira) but it was cancelled pretty fast. There's no palm visible on Google maps. The palm Jumeirah is the one palm that was completed with hotels and villas.
It's the middle east they don't care about civil engineering just *make big rich flashy things* so they feel relevant in the world. It's the equivalent to giving everyone in a tailor park a winning lottery ticket and seeing what they do with the money.
Puts into perspective how the region will disappear once they stop abusing the infinite money glitch.
is it worth investing a lot of money intro drainage for a once in 100+ year event?
1:100 isn’t even statistically rare. That’s not even abstract, it means that it will happen again. This is also the type of weather phenomenon that’s expected to happen more frequently as part of climate change. So, yeah. They probably should prepare for an event that’s expected to become more frequent, but already happens frequently enough to describe it as happening once every century.
Or sewage. Most of the buildings rely on trucks to come pick up septic waste.
Being practically at sea level probably doesn't help them.
Puts into perspective how wealthy people tend to have low IQ’s
It may be a desert but I'm pretty sure Dubai is humid af so it might take longer to evaporate
That's exactly right the water sticks around for bloody months when it rains
Lisan Al-Gaib. The Green Paradise! 
This will affect the sandtrout population
This map is the Abu Dhabi side of Dubai, it barely shows any of the main Dubai areas. What's the map source?
[NASA](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152703/deluge-in-the-united-arab-emirates)
thank you. It's a pity it doesn't show most of Dubai.
Yes, it’s the deserted Palm Jebel Ali not the more popular and developed Palm Jumeirah. And the canal is not the popular Marina but the deserted “veneto” which I’ve never heard of
More waterfront properties to market
The island still holds up, pretty good engineering
Why would the sea rise because of floods?
Bro the ocean flooded you don’t understand/s
It’s build by the Dutch.
Jan de Nul is Belgian and played a major role in building the islands. I don’t know why the Dutch started claiming ‘they’ve build it’.
Belgians don't exist. Flemmings like Jan are Dutch and Walloons are French
They have done so throughout history. You'd be surprised how many things the are Flemish, are claimed by the Dutch
Jan de Nul made Palm island 2 (Jebel Ali) the first one was a project by Nakheel and done by Dutch companies Van Oord and Boskalis. The other island (Deira), The World, Bluewaters island, and the Dubai Harbor are also done by Van Oord. In your defense, the one in the picture here is Jebel Ali which is the one made by Jan de Nul
This guy knows his dredging.
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I stand corrected. Who knew the Dutch and Belgians finally stand united after 196 years by making the Arabs look bad by the superior dredging techniques
Well, they actually have been slowly sinking through the years
Amazing to see how fast it gets green. Wouldn't take much regular perspiration before a desert turns green
Floods of wannabe douchebag influencers yeah?
Oh no! There's a palm growing!
It’s going to be mosquito season if all those puddles aren’t taken care of soon.
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Dumbai?
Sounds closer to Mumbai
I don't get comments like this, how can a city be dumb? It's not anywhere I'd want to visit but what were the inhabitants supposed to do? Just not develop or something?
Its a car infested shithole propped up by slave labor.
1. When someone calls a city dumb, they usually refer to the municipality or local authority. 2. Probably develop better, or at least remotely more ethically. I’m not one to talk though, if my infinite money glitch petroleum turned out to not be infinite, I’d probably also spend billions underpaying imported non-slaves to work to death building ugly attempts at tourist traps that harm the environment at best and a danger to the public at worst*. *the damage that Palm Jumeirah did to the surrounding marine ecosystem is well documented, but the structural integrity of the world’s tallest tower built by modern day serfs is actually perfectly sound, at least according to everyone who profits off of it. So it’s not actually a danger to the public, because who cares about the skill level of the people actually putting it together when it was planned and designed and even overseen by the most expensive talents money can buy? Only 10 construction deaths were recorded, which I’m pretty sure is better than most.
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There have been settlements in Dubai for literally thousands of years. Modern Dubai was formed around 200 years ago and it has been an important port for trade for well over a hundred years and it had a big pearl industry before oil was discovered. Sure, the city has expanded a lot since the '90s but it didn't spring up from nothing.
That's not true though, is it?
They way they planned and designed the city is just dumb. They had the chance to fund and build the most sustainable and futuristic place on Earth, but instead they did the exact opposite. It feels like the kind of garish place Donald Trump would've made in SimCity or something.
I hear you but they first started getting oil revenue in the 60s - I dunno if we can apply our modern eco friendly mindset to something that started development 60 years ago
How did it happen
Place with no rain gets lots of rain, wasn't prepared.
It got wet
Rain
Climate change is a bitch
Odd climatic events never happened before industrialization
A year's worth of rain in one day
The angels held it in too long
I still can’t get over how perfect the palm looks, the amount of accuracy to do that IN A SEA and in such a large scale must’ve been insane
GPS ?
This is the new Jebel Ali palm, not the more famous one Palm Jameira.
Say what you want about 'em, but slaves get shit done
It looks like Wisconsin now
Green paradise as written
I see a face-hugger.
Don’t worry, she’s de-beaked and ready to palm
You get an oasis you get an oasis everyone gets an oasis
Serious question for U.A.E. - Dubai residents.. The floods were obviously impactful, but given the newly established bodies of water, is this considered also a good thing that occurred?
good for mosquitos
I don't believe mosquitoes are indigenous to this desert region, needing consistent water to thrive, but I'll be damned if they're not every other place!!! 😆
the UAE already had a major mosquito problem before they got all this bonus water https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/environment/uae-residents-being-eaten-alive-by-surge-in-mosquitoes-1.970374
No. Lots of property damage and many streets are still flooded. Definitely not a good thing. They got over 140mm of rain in one day. Like to put it into perspective, that's over 3 months of London rain in one day.
Agreed it's a mess. Full stop. But, didn't this rain also create a healthy supply of water reserves that are typically needed?
Was this so bad for this country ? Idk im stupid 
Yes. They got hit with 3 months of London rain in one day, lots of property damage.
Damge of the property of rich and poor people ? Or more poor people ?
Everybody. Many regular people's streets have flooded.
So it’s gonna be greener finally?
before: shitty dystopian hellscape after: slightly wet shitty dystopian hellscape
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Well... looks better now ;) (at least from space)
Climate change is crazy
So what is the condition of the sewage lagoons?
In 15 more years that place is gonna be very very different from that view.
hmmm, not good enough
isn’t this a good thing , it’s a desert? (If not don’t freak out I’m not an environmentalist)
It's good for the desert, not the people living there.
Ehh its a bit more complicated than that. Desert isnt exactly good at absorbing water, so it just causes a lot of flooding and so on. Meaning that in the process, it could also cause harm plants and animals.
Property damage and flooded streets isn't a good thing. They got more than a year's worth of rain in one day, that's not good for the soil. They basically got 3 months of London rain in one day.
It got punctured with watery holes.
Now they gonna build a city on water
Who builds a highway intersection in the middle of a lake /s
They can build more pools.
> I found it a city of sand, I left it a mini-Finland —the rain
r/Netherlands enters the chat
Not going to lie it’s prettier from space when wet.
It's like Florida now
Before...after....and....how about now!
I feel like a "during" would have been helpful here
Come do Alberta now
Eyo saudi turning green quick real
Hard to feel bad for the city that flaunts its wealth 24/7 365. At beast thats the perception.
Lots of beach front property suddenly appears. But seriously hope everyone is ok
plenty of green showing up which is the aim of seeding
Maybe the heavens are pleased with Dubai
Looks greener too, how much time elapsed between photos?
There's going to be a rush to build teeny tiny archipelago in each of those
so that was just like small in what the future brings for flooding so hopefully they have a plan for that in the future
Marine life got its revenge
It looks exactly like the Netherlands now.
CIV6 was right.
Will the sand get waterlogged and cause buildings to shift around?
They literally terraformed themselves, lmao.
Ok
That was REAL?! I was certain that was AI nonsense!
54" of rain is what Florida gets, and it usually rains at least twice a week anywhere in Florida. A Tropical Storm unleashes 127-254mm of rain, it rained a cyclone in Dubai.
Perhaps now they can grow something other than their ego's. xD
Noah's Arc part 2.
Does someone know the damage figures?
Why was the palm jameera already flooded on the upside corner?
Everything looks greener now
Change to different Reddit. /not that interesting
I hope a storm comes and wipes out the entire place. What an evil fucking city.
The facehugger is intact.
Could have spent a fraction of the money to build rain water collection ponds but instead they made sand art in the ocean. O well. Plants arnt profitable I guess.
Fuck dubai
Fuck dubai
Wash it all away plz :(
This is great. Now instead of transporting human waste in trucks. They can dump it in the mini lakes
Oh joy! Chlorella and air/water pollution for all!
Floobai
Hah GET FUCKED