Cars drive in a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai on April 17, 2024.
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Hussain Sajwani, the chairman of Damac Properties, one of the United Arab Emirate’s largest private real estate developers, sought to downplay the severity of flooding in the country earlier this month, saying there were only “pockets of problems.”
On April 16, the normally dry desert country in the Gulf was pummeled with roughly a year’s worth of rain in less than a day, more than it has ever seen in a single storm since records for the UAE began in 1949.
Flash floods that…
