{"id":2834,"date":"2024-04-28T23:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/dubai-damac-property-boss-says-floods-were-overexaggerated\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T23:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T23:42:56","slug":"dubai-damac-property-boss-says-floods-were-overexaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/dubai-damac-property-boss-says-floods-were-overexaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Damac property boss says floods were overexaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><amp-img src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107403103-1713442934734-gettyimages-2147884769-AFP_34PN92T.jpeg?v=1714297160&amp;w=720&amp;h=405\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" layout=\"responsive\" alt=\"Cars drive in a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai on April 17, 2024.\" data-testid=\"image\" class=\"jsx-1560264765 i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" i-amphtml-layout=\"responsive\"><i-amphtml-sizer style=\"display:block;padding-top:56.25%\"\/><\/amp-img><\/p>\n<p>Cars drive in a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai on April 17, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Cacace | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">Hussain Sajwani, the chairman of Damac Properties,\u00a0one of the United Arab Emirate&#8217;s largest private real estate developers, sought to downplay the severity of flooding in the country earlier this month, saying there were only &#8220;pockets of problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">On April 16, the normally dry desert country in the Gulf was pummeled with roughly a year&#8217;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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><amp-ad width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"jsx-3336650016 box_ad i-amphtml-layout-fixed i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" type=\"doubleclick\" data-loading-strategy=\"prefer-viewability-over-views\" data-slot=\"\/2620\/nbcu.cnbc\/technology\/climate\/weatherandnaturaldisas\" json=\"{&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;sect&quot;:&quot;technology&quot;,&quot;sub&quot;:&quot;climate&quot;,&quot;sub2&quot;:&quot;weatherandnaturaldisas&quot;,&quot;franid&quot;:[&quot;weatherandnatur&quot;,&quot;climate&quot;,&quot;weather&quot;,&quot;naturaldisasters&quot;],&quot;site&quot;:&quot;cnbc&quot;,&quot;pageid&quot;:107407270,&quot;cont&quot;:&quot;cnbcnewsstory&quot;,&quot;brand&quot;:&quot;cnbc&quot;,&quot;amp&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;MVPropertyID&quot;:&quot;NA-AMP-11239801&quot;,&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;boxinline_amp-cnbcnewsstory_OnNextJS&quot;}}\" data-testid=\"\/2620\/nbcu.cnbc\/technology\/climate\/weatherandnaturaldisas-3rd-para\" rtc-config=\"{&quot;vendors&quot;: {&quot;prebidrubicon&quot;: {&quot;REQUEST_ID&quot;: &quot;24610-amp-nbcu_cnbc&quot;, &quot;ACCOUNT_ID&quot;: &quot;24610&quot;}}}\" style=\"width:300px;height:250px;\" i-amphtml-layout=\"fixed\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"second-content\" hidden=\"\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3336650016 group\">\n<p class=\"jsx-3336650016\">Flash floods that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2024\/04\/28\/dubai-damac-property-boss-says-floods-were-overexaggerated.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars drive in a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai on April 17, 2024. Giuseppe Cacace | Afp | Getty Images Hussain Sajwani, the chairman of Damac Properties,\u00a0one of the United Arab Emirate&#8217;s largest private real estate developers, sought to downplay the severity of flooding in the country earlier this month, saying there were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-en","category-real-estate-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}