WASHED AWAY
How £250,000 supercars owned by Dubai’s ultra-rich are being lost to floods – with Chanel and Dior underwater
Dubai faced unprecedented flooding after a year's worth of rain fell in just 24 hours flat
SUPERCARS worth £250,000 owned by Dubai's ultra-rich are being lost to the apocalyptic flood that hit the glitzy desert hard.
Torrential downpours submerged the entire city underwater, with roads and businesses coming to a standstill.
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For Dubai, a year's worth of rain fell in just 24 hours flat leaving the city woefully unprepared in infrastructure and flood prevention systems.
Overwhelmed with the amount of water, the glitzy desert faced an unprecedented amount of flooding, leaving everything filled with water.
Shocking pictures previously showed dozens of cars left abandoned after they got filled with water.
Even cars owned by Dubai's ultra-rich people were hit hard - and pictures showed expensive motors like Ferarri worth £250,000 were lost to floods.
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Luxury stores like Chanel and Dior were affected as well, leaving the elites of the town moaning.
Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury painted a picture of the apocalyptic conditions of the city.
She told the Mail: "When you see the water flowing like [water from] taps into all the luxury shops – Chanel, Dior all of them are affected
"The cars, sports cars, floating down the streets, you realise how bad it was."
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Meanwhile, dramatic footage captured the moment a £2million Pagani Utopia ploughed through Dubai's floods after roads were completely submerged.
The video showed the hypercar tentatively braving the recent flooding as the glitzy Arabian city was brought to a standstill.
Flooded Dubai paralysed by year of rain in 24hrs as city denies cloud-seeding to control weather
It is being speculated that the destructive deluge could end up costing the glitzy city $1 billion to clean up after the "apocalyptic" floods.
What caused the heavy rain in Dubai?
A DELUGE of rain flooded Dubai on Tuesday, leaving at least one person dead and causing major disruption at the world's busiest airfield.
The true cause of the heavy rain is not yet known, but some have theorised it may have been the result of cloud seeding.
Cloud-seeding is carried out in the UAE to increase the desert nation's dwindling and limited groundwater supply, according to AP.
The weather modification technique involves small planes flying through clouds while burning special salt flares that can increase precipitation.
Meteorologists at the National Centre for Meteorology said they flew six or seven cloud-seeding flights before the rains commenced, according to reports.
And flight-tracking data analysed by the AP reportedly showed that one aircraft affiliated with the UAE's cloud-seeding efforts flew around the country on Sunday.
A lack of drainage on roads and in other areas of the UAE - due to the irregularity of rain - is believed to have worsened the flooding.
Meanwhile, Dubai has been forced to deny the heavy rain fell due to cloudseeding.
The United Arab Emirates has relied on the cloud seeding phenomenon for decades.
Cloud seeding tries to manipulate the weather to bring more rain, and make Dubai a more liveable place.
Cloud seeding generally involves the government flying small planes through clouds which burn salt flares that can increase precipitation.
UAE's National Centre for Meteorology (NCM) also claimed several specialist cloud-seeding jets were seen flying around in the days prior to the floods.
NCM has admitted seeding took place on Sunday and Monday, according to Bloomberg, but denied doing it on Tuesday.
Omar AlYazeedi, deputy director general of the NCM, said the agency “did not conduct any seeding operations during this event”.
Record breaking floods
The torrential rain and flooding in Dubai in particular has submerged an airport, swamped malls and train stations and left Dubai paralysed with one person dead.
It has been the heaviest rain ever recorded and wiped out the millionaire's playground.
Planes were seen swimming in floodwater at the world's busiest airport, Dubai International, as flights were diverted through yesterday afternoon and evening.
Dramatic pictures and videos showed shopping centres swamped and busy roads resembling rushing rivers dotted with halted cars.
People trudged through ankle-deep water in a metro station, and on roads as they attempted to push their flooded cars to higher ground.
It is a historic weather event, greater than any previously recorded in Dubai, where data collection began in 1949, according to state-run WAM news agency.
Twenty-one outbound and 24 inbound flights were cancelled at Dubai International Airport (DXB) on Tuesday, while many other flights were diverted to neighbouring airports.
DXB was still badly affected on Wednesday due to "very challenging conditions".
They are still running a limited service as of Friday morning.
By the end of Tuesday, 5.59 inches of rainfall had soaked Dubai in just 24 hours.
Schools across the UAE were largely shut yesterday and government employees, and other workers, were urged to work remotely if able - both on Tuesday and again on Wednesday.
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Tanker trucks worked in the streets and highways to pump away water, as flooding reached people's homes and forced them outside.
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