{"id":51077,"date":"2024-04-17T23:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51077"},"modified":"2024-04-17T23:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:24:49","slug":"dubai-reels-from-floods-chaos-after-record-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51077","title":{"rendered":"Dubai reels from floods chaos after record rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dubai&#8217;s giant highways were clogged by flooding and airport passengers were urged to stay away on Wednesday as the glitzy financial centre reeled from record rains.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Huge tailbacks snaked along six-lane expressways after up to 254 millimetres of rain &#8212; about two years&#8217; worth &#8212; fell on the desert United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person was killed after a 70-year-old man was swept away in his car in Ras Al-Khaimah, one of the country&#8217;s seven emirates, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers were warned not to come to Dubai airport, the world&#8217;s busiest by international traffic, &#8220;unless absolutely necessary&#8221;, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flights continue to be delayed and diverted&#8230; We are working hard to recover operations as quickly as possible in very challenging conditions,&#8221; a Dubai Airports spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai&#8217;s giant highways were clogged by flooding and airport passengers were urged to stay away on Wednesday as the glitzy financial centre reeled from record rains. Huge tailbacks snaked along six-lane expressways after up to 254 millimetres of rain &#8212; about two years&#8217; worth &#8212; fell on the desert United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1198],"class_list":["post-51077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-dubai-reels-from-floods-chaos-after-record-rains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}