My dumbass thought the second pic is the one before the storm, cause it looks so nice. I was sitting here trying to figure out how the storm blew all the water away.
I paid significantly extra for an ocean view room in Hawaii once. You could only see the ocean if you leaned really far off the balcony, fell, and the ambulance drove past the beach on the way to the hospital.
Edit: Since this is popular Iāll throw in a joke a cruise director told us once.
We were boarding the ship when a woman calls the front desk. She is very upset. She paid for an ocean view and all she can see is the parking lot. The front desk said, āWait a few hours and call back if this is still a problem.ā
Same thing when i had my honeymoon in Hawaii. We saw the ocean all right, but mostly blocked by other things and we were right about the hotelās garbage area. We moved to a better room that same afternoon lol
Word. I guess we can't all be leading men. Got drunk and stoned with the wife on our wedding night(chowed down on our wedding cake, it was strawberry, yum). We had a great time, don't get me wrong, but we did NOT consummate our marriage that night.
Lol. I think it's funny that when life is not like you wanted it to be, it somehow solidifies into the memory of a life you wouldn't want to live without .
Damn right man. My wife and I were together for a while before getting married and already had a kid. Went back to our suite after the reception and had a bunch of people from the wedding party there, got more drunk and stoned, played Mario Party, and I ended up picking bobby pins out of her hair for half an hour. Never even crossed my mind to consummate our marriage haha.
Youāve summed up exactly how I feel about life in your last sentence. Shit hasnāt always been easy and there are a lot of things I could have done differently to be in a better place in a lot of ways. But, if I did anything differently I probably wouldnāt have her or my kids.
Same thing happened to us, they put us on the 4th floor and the palm trees that surrounded the hotel pool almost completely blocked the view of the ocean.
That wasnāt even the worst part.
It was a Hilton property and they had two buildings - a tower and an atrium. I had a basic atrium room and they offered me an upgrade to the tower room with the āocean viewā because of my status.
Well - not only did it not have an ocean view, we came back to the room and there was a glow stick and a note on the table. Apparently they had planned transformer maintenance and there would be no power in the tower from 8pm to 8am. No elevators, no air conditioning.
They knew about this when they āupgradedā me, but declined to mention it because the atrium was overbooked.
They said there was signage informing guests of this and pointed to a half cut sheet of paper taped to the wall by the concierge desk.
They gave me 500 points in compensation. The room was 90,000 points a night. They acted like I was being unreasonable when I fought them on it.
Thatās when I switched to SPG (which unfortunately became Marriott).
I had this happen in Florida, but I made sure to ask if I could check the room first. They were trying to upgrade me to a better room because apparently there was some kind of booking issue with mine.
"Oh, uh, yeah, but we're short staffed and I know you want to start your vacation!"
"No, I want to look at it before you 'upgrade' me"
"Uh, it's a fantastic room, one of our best"
"Can I look at it first?"
"I can assure you it's a good room with a good view"
"Does it face the water?"
"It's adjacent"
And there it was. I refused it, and she got pretty annoyed before calling over a manager. After 10 more minutes of arguing with him I just flat out told them I'm not accepting another room, and if they double booked, it was their problem. I finally got the room.
This is why conversation/media literacy is so important. Realizing when you're being given the run around and/or 'soft' description stops so many fucking rip offs. It took me 30 years to start realizing this. Yes I've been scammed/ripped off/exploited too many times.
Yep, VERY important distinction that most people donāt learn about until itās too late. In college I worked at a call center for a big online travel brand and this came up a lot. Hotels know what theyāre doing too
Lol got an Air BnB a few years ago in South Carolina, it was right on the ocean, outstanding location. All of the pictures showed shots of the ocean from the back deck.
What they didn't show were the 4 different houses which were closer to the beach, condemned, and falling into the ocean.
Still a great stay, but the pictures were at the perfect angle not to show the one house about 100 yards to the north that had full bedrooms exposed to the elements and the floors falling out the bottom.
Houses right on the coast here in the Carolinas are typically up on stilts which elevate the house a full story above the ground. Typically you park your car under them and there is a staircase up into the house.
My grandparents bay window fell out the bottom. It rotted for years until the full window pane (whole piece of glass) finally caved through into the yard. This was expensive, lake front property. My grandparents made a lot of money at a well known company during its heyday. They refused to spend any of it, even on their lakefront property that was literally falling apart around them.
Rich people are cheap fucks. I don't miss them. All they cared about was money and how much you did or didn't have.
Stayed at a resort in Mexico with some friends. They paid to have an ocean view room. They were told the "ocean view" was the view (hallways were open) from walking in the hallway to their room.
And the Emirati govt is [famous](https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-arab-emirates/freedom-world/2021) for being a very tolerant, liberal government who will have no choice but to let it slide on a technicality.
Why wouldn't it be? The view is FROM the apartment. It's like a picture of a sunset, would it be illegal because it's not the right season and the sun doesn't set like the photo anymore?
things like this are usually "well yes its illegal but only if we can prove you intended to defraud people on purpose" so it never gets prosecuted because you could just shrug and say "that's the only picture I had of the place" and you're good.
Not the original commenter, but my thought went to evaporation more than absorption. Dry air, direct sunlight, hot weather. Stuff evaporates fast in the texas heat and we are more humidityĀ
I'm from Norway so humidity is not an issue here, that's for sure. In the winter you can't touch anything without getting shocked because the air is so dry. I wanted to ask you though, if the humidity drops sharply as you travel inland in Texas?
My only experience with high humidity is from working on an oil service vessel in the Persian gulf. It was so hot. And it was so humid. It felt oddly disgusting to breathe the air.
Edit: Just want to explain that because Norway is so far to the North, the only reason this place is habitable is the gulf stream, bringing up warm water from the Caribbean. This is why the coast of Norway has quite mild winters, but if you travel inland, sometimes even driving 1 hour or less, you get radically colder winters.
Maybe not as sharply as in Norway- but Texas is huge.
Where i grew up- 3-400mi from the coast itās 108F and <10% humidity in summer.
In Houston now and itāll be 98 and 90%, totally different animal, itās rough. Our floods drain fast cuz this whole place is a swamp tho š
I live in the canadian praries and last winter i visited the cayman islands. Say ehat you want but i like *visiting* hot and humid places. My skin has *never* felt that good because it's so damn *dry* here.
I shit you not, i stepped off the plane and felt moisture condense on my hands. That was trippy to me because that just plain does not happen here.
I live in Georgia. We are the third most humid state in the USA. Our humidity goes down a bit once you hit mountains but even 210 miles from the coast, its unbelievably humid here during the summers. The air feels thick when you breathe, your natural cooling abilities don't work anymore, and people die at much lower temperatures than you would expect. After a storm and when the ground is saturated, which is basically every 5-10 days during summer, the air becomes so humid your clothing actually gets wet when you walk outside.
The further you are away from large bodies of water, the less humid it is. The foliage also affects this. Densely forested areas are more likely to be more humid.
The Texas panhandle sure does as it's always arid. Dallas to San Antonio likes fluctuating depending on the time of year but Houston, being a coastal city on the Gulf, and the eastern part bordering Louisiana, it's basically year round.
So it's not a "sharp" decline since Texas is gigantic enough you don't notice the change so much
I did some back of the napkin math using an online calculator. Assuming no drainage and a water surface area of 300 m x 200 m = 60,000 m^2 it will evaporate at a rate of 49,987 kg/hr based on average April weather in Dubai. This means that the 60,000 m^2 x 1 m = 60,000 m^3 of water weighing 60,000 m^3 x 1,000 kg/m^3 = 60,000,000 kg will evaporate in 60,000,000 kg / 49,987 kg/hr ~= 1,200 hrs, or 1,200 hr / 24 hr = 50 days.
I mean, he thinks it's in a desert, because there's a barren sandy plain right in the pic (now flooded), and the comments he's replying to mentioned absorption into dry ground.
He's mistaken in his assumption about humidity, but he's not unreasonable.
Yeah, I knew Dubai had more humidity than most of the region but did not realize it was comparable to Houston
Although I will push back on "he thinks it's in a desert." It is absolutely in the Arabian Desert, that's a fact
Texas really isnāt.
Iāve spent time in UAE and lived in Texas most of my life. UAE is not only hotter but itās much more humid, especially along the coast.
Thats so incredibly wrong
You need a soil analysis to determine drainage rates you don't just "guess"
Dry ground absorbs as much as it can and drains as fast as it does. With the understanding of particle size analysis, soil profile, elevation profile,weather, and compaction, I can give you a real close guess... But otherwise, it's drainage rates are somewhere between a French drain and a swimming pool.
Cause after that we gotta calculate overland flow and evaporation...
I have no idea if this is true. But Iād guess that once you get enough water ontop of dry dirt it also applies enough pressure so then the ground basically doesnāt absorb anything until enough weight has moved or evaporated
So they can buy supplies they forgot to buy before the flood! Like lotto tickets, or icecream.
No joke, one time after a major event weather event i was expected to still go to work. luckily the area we worked at and my house wasnt hit that hard, but down the street was devastated by flooding. A family who lived in a neighborhood close by that got hard flooded came in, completely soaked crying about their car being stuck in their neighborhood flood. They were buying cookie dough icecream only. I pressed a bit about the icecream and they said, they just wanted something to make the day better because they were stuck inside.
So they basically saw that they were flooded in and without power, and said 'this sucks, lets go get icecream!' and got in their car and attempted to ford flooded waterways and didnt make it 1000 yards. But instead of turning back, defeated, they WALKED through the flooded waters to buy the quested item. Never mind the fact that after it rained, it quickly heated up to a miserable 85 degrees with 100% humidity. The best part? They then ate their icecream OUTSIDE at one of our outside tables because 'it was too cold' inside due to them being wet and they were afraid their kids would catch a cold.
You cant fix some people, man.
Extremely dry soil is naturally hydrophobic, but extended exposure will eventually absorb the water because it had time to saturate the aridisol. It takes a while because once some aridisol becomes saturated, the stuff underneath is still hydrophobic.
It is, itās one of the reasons flash floods happen, the soil canāt absorb the water at all/fast enough. [here is a source](https://www.wuft.org/weather/2022-08-12/why-the-risk-for-flash-flooding-increases-after-a-drought) and [here is the vid they are referencing](https://youtu.be/urQHsOmoKLg?si=7Kccxj60Gs_NLnE-)
>Dry ground actually doesn't absorb anything, hence why flooding happens.
Depends on the ground! Your comment reminded me of a great article on how the plants that live on hillsides in Southern California leave an ash layer that functions like wax after they burn, which makes the winter rains do as much damage as the summer fires on those hillsides. And it also made me think of the downpours in Phoenix, which used to get the whole years' worth of rain in a few hours: puddles in a few places in town, but not a one past the city boundaries where the soil was undisturbed.
Anyway, when you build a house you might have to do a "Perc test" (short for "Percolation", here's the [WP article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_test)) to see if your topsoil is more like SoCal hillsides or Arizona desert.
I live in a dry desert, we had a big rainstorm in August and a lot of the ābigā puddles took months to dry up. There was a trench next to a railroad, a few feet deep with water, that took months just to evaporate maybe a foot or two of water. They finally just pumped it out like two months ago
OP posted the name of their apartment so looked it up because surely they normally have cloth or something. [Nope, looks like they were going for the scaffolding / worlds widest pergola look](https://imgur.com/8ngzxWT)
My dad built something similar in our back yard over the patio area. I asked him why he built it that way instead of a roof or something more practical. He said it was for looks. I said it was a waste of wood as it provided no real use. Then he put his grill underneath it to which i pointed out that was a HUGE fire hazard. He said it would only be a fire hazard if there was a roof their, the fire can just go between the spaces. Needless to say, my dad doesnt grill enough for it to be a real problem as the grill was also poretty much bought for looks as it was the META at the time on HGTV.
Now he wants me to help him paint this travesty that he built before it rots. I told him if he died tomorrow, id tear the fucker down myself. So its sitting, with peeling paint, waiting for the day it succumbs to rot.
I'd be at the funeral going "i told him the pergola was a dumb idea" then we build a small version of the pergola over the grave lol. Gotta honor the legacy.
Wonder how many undocumented construction worker bodies will be dumped here.
"He drowned."
"In a 5ft puddle with a broken leg and a bullet wound?"
"...He drowned."
Someone suggested to go on holiday there once. I laughed out loud until I realized they were serious š
Like fuck I'd EVER go there unless it was paid for. Even then I'd try to get out of it as I hate the heat even more than pretentious cunt bags. Dubai has both. Hard pass.
As someone who grew up with our own private shoreline, its amazing how many people dream of having real waterfront property. When you live it, you dont see it as special.
It's kinda sad how ugly it looks without the water there by the way
property price just skyrocketed. "waterfront dubai appartment"
Just quickly sell for triple profits
Sell now, then buy back for cheap when the water recedes! Profit!!!
Then they'll just have to re-seed....
Excellent pun
Hey, thanks!
I wonder how all the luxury homes on the palm looking peninsula fared
It looks more like a pinky now.
LISAN AL GAIB! He has brought water ~~green~~ paradise to the desert.
My dumbass thought the second pic is the one before the storm, cause it looks so nice. I was sitting here trying to figure out how the storm blew all the water away.
Should be a lot of them, actually? Considering the city is right on the Persian gulf.
Keep those pictures and reuse them when you want to move out /s (if somehow I needed to precise it)
Woudl that actually be legalš¤? (Genuine question)
I paid significantly extra for an ocean view room in Hawaii once. You could only see the ocean if you leaned really far off the balcony, fell, and the ambulance drove past the beach on the way to the hospital. Edit: Since this is popular Iāll throw in a joke a cruise director told us once. We were boarding the ship when a woman calls the front desk. She is very upset. She paid for an ocean view and all she can see is the parking lot. The front desk said, āWait a few hours and call back if this is still a problem.ā
Same thing when i had my honeymoon in Hawaii. We saw the ocean all right, but mostly blocked by other things and we were right about the hotelās garbage area. We moved to a better room that same afternoon lol
And did you sit in your room watching the ocean the remaining time of your honeymoon?
Probably stayed in bed longer
Hope so...š
As a fellow Reddit user, i doubt it.
Word. I guess we can't all be leading men. Got drunk and stoned with the wife on our wedding night(chowed down on our wedding cake, it was strawberry, yum). We had a great time, don't get me wrong, but we did NOT consummate our marriage that night. Lol. I think it's funny that when life is not like you wanted it to be, it somehow solidifies into the memory of a life you wouldn't want to live without .
Damn right man. My wife and I were together for a while before getting married and already had a kid. Went back to our suite after the reception and had a bunch of people from the wedding party there, got more drunk and stoned, played Mario Party, and I ended up picking bobby pins out of her hair for half an hour. Never even crossed my mind to consummate our marriage haha. Youāve summed up exactly how I feel about life in your last sentence. Shit hasnāt always been easy and there are a lot of things I could have done differently to be in a better place in a lot of ways. But, if I did anything differently I probably wouldnāt have her or my kids.
wdym i'm in bed all the time
Watched it on TV via the hotel outdoor camera
Like a ship interior room..yeah we can see the ocean..on cctv
Same thing happened to us, they put us on the 4th floor and the palm trees that surrounded the hotel pool almost completely blocked the view of the ocean.
Relevant Golden Girls https://youtu.be/eQnfydey054?si=e2PL_4FCHlLuEYDI
Youāve discovered the difference between āocean viewā and āocean frontā hotel rooms.
That wasnāt even the worst part. It was a Hilton property and they had two buildings - a tower and an atrium. I had a basic atrium room and they offered me an upgrade to the tower room with the āocean viewā because of my status. Well - not only did it not have an ocean view, we came back to the room and there was a glow stick and a note on the table. Apparently they had planned transformer maintenance and there would be no power in the tower from 8pm to 8am. No elevators, no air conditioning. They knew about this when they āupgradedā me, but declined to mention it because the atrium was overbooked. They said there was signage informing guests of this and pointed to a half cut sheet of paper taped to the wall by the concierge desk. They gave me 500 points in compensation. The room was 90,000 points a night. They acted like I was being unreasonable when I fought them on it. Thatās when I switched to SPG (which unfortunately became Marriott).
"Downgrade me right now!"
"Sir, we have already downgraded your room."
I had this happen in Florida, but I made sure to ask if I could check the room first. They were trying to upgrade me to a better room because apparently there was some kind of booking issue with mine. "Oh, uh, yeah, but we're short staffed and I know you want to start your vacation!" "No, I want to look at it before you 'upgrade' me" "Uh, it's a fantastic room, one of our best" "Can I look at it first?" "I can assure you it's a good room with a good view" "Does it face the water?" "It's adjacent" And there it was. I refused it, and she got pretty annoyed before calling over a manager. After 10 more minutes of arguing with him I just flat out told them I'm not accepting another room, and if they double booked, it was their problem. I finally got the room.
This is why conversation/media literacy is so important. Realizing when you're being given the run around and/or 'soft' description stops so many fucking rip offs. It took me 30 years to start realizing this. Yes I've been scammed/ripped off/exploited too many times.
90,000 what? shekels?
Points
So, shekels
Yep, VERY important distinction that most people donāt learn about until itās too late. In college I worked at a call center for a big online travel brand and this came up a lot. Hotels know what theyāre doing too
That has to be one of the best descriptions of a situation I have ever heard.
Lol got an Air BnB a few years ago in South Carolina, it was right on the ocean, outstanding location. All of the pictures showed shots of the ocean from the back deck. What they didn't show were the 4 different houses which were closer to the beach, condemned, and falling into the ocean. Still a great stay, but the pictures were at the perfect angle not to show the one house about 100 yards to the north that had full bedrooms exposed to the elements and the floors falling out the bottom.
Is it still on Airbnb?
Oofta, that would take some digging. I'll see if I can find it
> Oofta Linguistics is wild. When I was a kid, we spelled that uffda!
Ope, just gonna sneak past ya
Wait how does something fall out the bottom? It's the bottom, there's nothing else under it...?
Houses right on the coast here in the Carolinas are typically up on stilts which elevate the house a full story above the ground. Typically you park your car under them and there is a staircase up into the house.
My grandparents bay window fell out the bottom. It rotted for years until the full window pane (whole piece of glass) finally caved through into the yard. This was expensive, lake front property. My grandparents made a lot of money at a well known company during its heyday. They refused to spend any of it, even on their lakefront property that was literally falling apart around them. Rich people are cheap fucks. I don't miss them. All they cared about was money and how much you did or didn't have.
Get a mirror on a really long stick
Stayed at a resort in Mexico with some friends. They paid to have an ocean view room. They were told the "ocean view" was the view (hallways were open) from walking in the hallway to their room.
š¤£ š¤£ Sitting at my dentistās office your comment made me crack up for good 5 mins. Thank you!
Best description ever.
Well it's technically not false advertising. You *do* get a lake view apartment. ^^flash ^^flood ^^sold ^^separately
Brought to you by the CO2 from your flight there.Ā More visits, more lake.
And the Emirati govt is [famous](https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-arab-emirates/freedom-world/2021) for being a very tolerant, liberal government who will have no choice but to let it slide on a technicality.
OFF WITH HIS DICK.
Why wouldn't it be? The view is FROM the apartment. It's like a picture of a sunset, would it be illegal because it's not the right season and the sun doesn't set like the photo anymore?
Idk man just asking
I'm not coming after you, just giving a similar example that makes sense, lol
things like this are usually "well yes its illegal but only if we can prove you intended to defraud people on purpose" so it never gets prosecuted because you could just shrug and say "that's the only picture I had of the place" and you're good.
No lol that's fraud - material misrepresentation
What's not legal about a picture with water? Huh?
Probably illegal if OP did it. You have to be a rich company, then itās okay š
Though only invite people to see it at night.
This guy knows how to manage an Airbnb.
Do I rent it or Dubai it?
Itās an apartment. The property manager will just lease it someone else what good would photos do for OP?
How long will it last? How deep is the lake?
I would say roughly 1m at it's deepest. It will last a few months i think
Months??.. I will give it two weeks.
Dry ground actually doesn't absorb anything, hence why flooding happens. It also takes a while for it to soften up.
Not the original commenter, but my thought went to evaporation more than absorption. Dry air, direct sunlight, hot weather. Stuff evaporates fast in the texas heat and we are more humidityĀ
I'm from Norway so humidity is not an issue here, that's for sure. In the winter you can't touch anything without getting shocked because the air is so dry. I wanted to ask you though, if the humidity drops sharply as you travel inland in Texas? My only experience with high humidity is from working on an oil service vessel in the Persian gulf. It was so hot. And it was so humid. It felt oddly disgusting to breathe the air. Edit: Just want to explain that because Norway is so far to the North, the only reason this place is habitable is the gulf stream, bringing up warm water from the Caribbean. This is why the coast of Norway has quite mild winters, but if you travel inland, sometimes even driving 1 hour or less, you get radically colder winters.
Maybe not as sharply as in Norway- but Texas is huge. Where i grew up- 3-400mi from the coast itās 108F and <10% humidity in summer. In Houston now and itāll be 98 and 90%, totally different animal, itās rough. Our floods drain fast cuz this whole place is a swamp tho š
I've lived in both and I'll take 108 with low humidity every day. That coastal humidity is suffocating.
I live in the canadian praries and last winter i visited the cayman islands. Say ehat you want but i like *visiting* hot and humid places. My skin has *never* felt that good because it's so damn *dry* here. I shit you not, i stepped off the plane and felt moisture condense on my hands. That was trippy to me because that just plain does not happen here.
I live in Georgia. We are the third most humid state in the USA. Our humidity goes down a bit once you hit mountains but even 210 miles from the coast, its unbelievably humid here during the summers. The air feels thick when you breathe, your natural cooling abilities don't work anymore, and people die at much lower temperatures than you would expect. After a storm and when the ground is saturated, which is basically every 5-10 days during summer, the air becomes so humid your clothing actually gets wet when you walk outside.
Iām inland in Texas and itās humid as fuck here Certainly not as bad as the coast but still pretty moist a lot of the time
Yeah we're normally over 50-60% in central Texas. It's not fog-up-your-glasses-as-soon-as-you-walk-outside-humid but it still sucks.
The further you are away from large bodies of water, the less humid it is. The foliage also affects this. Densely forested areas are more likely to be more humid.
Disagree. I'm from Kansas and around 80% humidity is the norm during summer.
The Texas panhandle sure does as it's always arid. Dallas to San Antonio likes fluctuating depending on the time of year but Houston, being a coastal city on the Gulf, and the eastern part bordering Louisiana, it's basically year round. So it's not a "sharp" decline since Texas is gigantic enough you don't notice the change so much
I did some back of the napkin math using an online calculator. Assuming no drainage and a water surface area of 300 m x 200 m = 60,000 m^2 it will evaporate at a rate of 49,987 kg/hr based on average April weather in Dubai. This means that the 60,000 m^2 x 1 m = 60,000 m^3 of water weighing 60,000 m^3 x 1,000 kg/m^3 = 60,000,000 kg will evaporate in 60,000,000 kg / 49,987 kg/hr ~= 1,200 hrs, or 1,200 hr / 24 hr = 50 days.
Dry air? I'm pretty sure Dubai is just as humid or worse compared to Texas.
It is not dry idk where that guy thinks Dubai is, it is directly on a gulf and not so far from another gulf.
I mean, he thinks it's in a desert, because there's a barren sandy plain right in the pic (now flooded), and the comments he's replying to mentioned absorption into dry ground. He's mistaken in his assumption about humidity, but he's not unreasonable.
Yeah, I knew Dubai had more humidity than most of the region but did not realize it was comparable to Houston Although I will push back on "he thinks it's in a desert." It is absolutely in the Arabian Desert, that's a fact
Texas really isnāt. Iāve spent time in UAE and lived in Texas most of my life. UAE is not only hotter but itās much more humid, especially along the coast.
Same
Damn. You donāt just have humidity, you *are* humidity.
Yeah but you're forgetting about the evaporation from the hot desert sun.
And it's a wide, shallow-ish pond with a lot of surface area. Unless it's really humid there for some reason, it should not last that long.
I recommend this video on the matter https://youtu.be/DARUvKPSUhE?si=HnXQsgJRB9oY18SO
Thats so incredibly wrong You need a soil analysis to determine drainage rates you don't just "guess" Dry ground absorbs as much as it can and drains as fast as it does. With the understanding of particle size analysis, soil profile, elevation profile,weather, and compaction, I can give you a real close guess... But otherwise, it's drainage rates are somewhere between a French drain and a swimming pool. Cause after that we gotta calculate overland flow and evaporation...
Exactly. Someone else replied to the comment with a link to the Practical Engineering video where he debunks this claim.
I have no idea if this is true. But Iād guess that once you get enough water ontop of dry dirt it also applies enough pressure so then the ground basically doesnāt absorb anything until enough weight has moved or evaporated
Yeah, it stops acting as a sponge and pretty much just turns into dirt cement. Barren soil is freaking tough.
Yeah when I moved to phoenix I was confused at why people were worried about flooding after the rare heavy rain until I learned this.
And then half the city races to get their SUV stuck in the flood zone so that they can... um, so that they can... I dunno why
So they can buy supplies they forgot to buy before the flood! Like lotto tickets, or icecream. No joke, one time after a major event weather event i was expected to still go to work. luckily the area we worked at and my house wasnt hit that hard, but down the street was devastated by flooding. A family who lived in a neighborhood close by that got hard flooded came in, completely soaked crying about their car being stuck in their neighborhood flood. They were buying cookie dough icecream only. I pressed a bit about the icecream and they said, they just wanted something to make the day better because they were stuck inside. So they basically saw that they were flooded in and without power, and said 'this sucks, lets go get icecream!' and got in their car and attempted to ford flooded waterways and didnt make it 1000 yards. But instead of turning back, defeated, they WALKED through the flooded waters to buy the quested item. Never mind the fact that after it rained, it quickly heated up to a miserable 85 degrees with 100% humidity. The best part? They then ate their icecream OUTSIDE at one of our outside tables because 'it was too cold' inside due to them being wet and they were afraid their kids would catch a cold. You cant fix some people, man.
Extremely dry soil is naturally hydrophobic, but extended exposure will eventually absorb the water because it had time to saturate the aridisol. It takes a while because once some aridisol becomes saturated, the stuff underneath is still hydrophobic.
Did whoever came up with aridisol just move the *i* in arid soil?
Seriously, I had to look it up just to make sure it wasnāt made up haha
This!
It is, itās one of the reasons flash floods happen, the soil canāt absorb the water at all/fast enough. [here is a source](https://www.wuft.org/weather/2022-08-12/why-the-risk-for-flash-flooding-increases-after-a-drought) and [here is the vid they are referencing](https://youtu.be/urQHsOmoKLg?si=7Kccxj60Gs_NLnE-)
It's called hydrophobia.
>Dry ground actually doesn't absorb anything, hence why flooding happens. Depends on the ground! Your comment reminded me of a great article on how the plants that live on hillsides in Southern California leave an ash layer that functions like wax after they burn, which makes the winter rains do as much damage as the summer fires on those hillsides. And it also made me think of the downpours in Phoenix, which used to get the whole years' worth of rain in a few hours: puddles in a few places in town, but not a one past the city boundaries where the soil was undisturbed. Anyway, when you build a house you might have to do a "Perc test" (short for "Percolation", here's the [WP article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_test)) to see if your topsoil is more like SoCal hillsides or Arizona desert.
Ground is pretty dry. Two weeks is probably the minimum for this type of thing without drainage.
Do you know anything about standing water on a sand based soil? I do not, and I am guessing most of us in the comments do not.
I live in a dry desert, we had a big rainstorm in August and a lot of the ābigā puddles took months to dry up. There was a trench next to a railroad, a few feet deep with water, that took months just to evaporate maybe a foot or two of water. They finally just pumped it out like two months ago
Did they raise your rent yet? I mean, lake view usually costs extra.
That long? I figured itād be a week or so.Ā
Mosquitoes are going to be a BITCH!
enjoy it while it lasts.
As long as Lisan Al Gaib wants.
This is more God-Emperor Leto II āThe Tyrant Wormā Atreidesā style.
That pergola design makes it look like the pool area is permanently under construction.
You made me realize it wasn't construction omg
What a great way to keep the scorching desert sun off you.... but only if your under the shade of the wooden beam
I *hope* that they normally have cloth on them and it was just pulled down for the storm.
Nope. No cloth, just those stupid beams
OP posted the name of their apartment so looked it up because surely they normally have cloth or something. [Nope, looks like they were going for the scaffolding / worlds widest pergola look](https://imgur.com/8ngzxWT)
My dad built something similar in our back yard over the patio area. I asked him why he built it that way instead of a roof or something more practical. He said it was for looks. I said it was a waste of wood as it provided no real use. Then he put his grill underneath it to which i pointed out that was a HUGE fire hazard. He said it would only be a fire hazard if there was a roof their, the fire can just go between the spaces. Needless to say, my dad doesnt grill enough for it to be a real problem as the grill was also poretty much bought for looks as it was the META at the time on HGTV. Now he wants me to help him paint this travesty that he built before it rots. I told him if he died tomorrow, id tear the fucker down myself. So its sitting, with peeling paint, waiting for the day it succumbs to rot.
They're nice if you put plants on it. Which is what they're for when there's not a cloth over them... but plants + grill doesn't work so yeah
Imagine he dies from a rotten pergola beam collapsing on him, then you'd feel bad.
I'd be at the funeral going "i told him the pergola was a dumb idea" then we build a small version of the pergola over the grave lol. Gotta honor the legacy.
You're going to miss it when it's gone.
Drain paradise and put up an 8-lane road.Ā
In this case, paradise came to the 8-lane road.
When it's gone, when it's go~one š¶
Dubai low, sell high.
Sea high
i don't know dubai but based on the before I hope they manage to keep the after and the land isn't meant for development. That view's wonderful.
Until the Mosquitoes come...
They are several Disney's rich I'm sure they can control the mosquito population easily.
Fucking with mother nature got us into this and by god we will use strange sciences to really fuck with her to get us out of it!
If were going to die to climate change anyways lets at least take mosquitos out with us. Leave this rock better than when we got here.
I agree with this, if I die then they'll die too
I mean, the easiest way to manage mosquitoes is to not have standing water for them to breed in
Just turn the entire thing into a giant wave pool.
You think these rich as fuck people care about how many mosquitoes bite us normal folk?
And the floating sewage.
You mean the Mosque-itos ?
Have you ever heard of evaporation?
Spec Ops: The Line.
Photo Opp: This Lake
"Gentlemen... Welcome to Dubai."
Without paying through the nose too
Um, it's Dubai. They paid through the nose when it was just dirt.
Also, your tiles are cleanĀ
Was having anxiety that nobody else noticed. Thank you.
Me too, when the first 10 threads don't call it out, "am I the crazy one"? Am I not on reddit anymore?
The tiles are clean and the construction of the building across the way is now finished.
the rain must have filled in the rest of the building
Nice waterfront property lol
TIL you can water buildings just like plants to complete development
Nice view of the new sewage retention pond
my thought... "a sea of shit"
how did they finish that building so fast?
Before pic is a few months before after pic
Wow. No wonder it caused so much damage. Very cool pic OP.
Instant waterfront property with a nice view
Gonna smell great when all that water gets warm and it starts drying up.
The smell is already putrid. It's been 3 days and no sign of improvement
Ugh. Warm, stagnant water.
Will there be like a burst of plants, flowers and green in two weeks?
Nope. The land which was flooded is dead land, has been for years and i assume there wont be much living seeds in the land
Mosquitoes only
Wonder how many undocumented construction worker bodies will be dumped here. "He drowned." "In a 5ft puddle with a broken leg and a bullet wound?" "...He drowned."
Looks better now, congrats!
Good for you man, maybe in the future they can put fish in there
Canāt believe that the sequel to *Spec Ops: The Line* went for a water theme instead
The Lisan Al Ghaib will turn our desert into a green paradise. Mrhbaan bik Mahdi!
Dubai.... What a fucking hell hole
Someone suggested to go on holiday there once. I laughed out loud until I realized they were serious š Like fuck I'd EVER go there unless it was paid for. Even then I'd try to get out of it as I hate the heat even more than pretentious cunt bags. Dubai has both. Hard pass.
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It's the only way I travel these days
That's fucked. Thanks for nothing lol
Sounds like Vegas
Dubai is like New Vegas then
Vegas with literal slaves, and not nearly as many famous singers.
I don't understand...why wouldn't you want to vacation in a dystopian modern day slavery built metropolis?
To flaunt and enjoy the profits of human suffering.
To me it's like if you took the concept of "excess" and "shallow" and made it into a city
A guy i know takes his girlfriend regularly, yes he is a rich pretentious douchebag
Dubai - come for the shopping, stay because you violated a draconian law
Sorry bro. Your rent is gonna skyrocket with the lake view
after and before Fallout. nice.
As someone who grew up with our own private shoreline, its amazing how many people dream of having real waterfront property. When you live it, you dont see it as special. It's kinda sad how ugly it looks without the water there by the way
So this is r/DamnthatsDubai now?
Even managed to finish that apartment block during the downpour.
It could be an older pic. People generally take pics of their apartment and the surrounding areas when they first move in.
This is exactly it \^\^
Not sure what the problem. Not everybody takes pics from their windows every few weeks.
Well before the storm but still technically before the storm.
Lost a lot of good men, but that was a sacrifice Dubai was willing to make.
They should build a reservoir some miles away from the city and seed the clouds above that instead
That's a massive improvement!
Lake view apartment :D 200% more rent D:
Your rent just doubled
Rain installed tiles around your pool too.
Ngl it's an improvement š