Winter has arrived in Dubai. It has been raining for the last three straight days and today it has been POURING all day... I didn't think it was supposed to rain in Dubai. I thought that was like, one of the maybe three good things about living here. I've been told it usually rains only 5 times a year but it has rained 4 times in the last two weeks here (three over the last three days), so I guess this is abnormal, or else we will have filled our water quota for the year in another 12 hours. And since this is clearly not the norm, absolutely no one has a clue as to how to drive in the rain (think Southerners in the snow) and the infrastructure is in no way equipped for this much precipitation (flooding and mudslides everywhere... no drains are built into any of the roads). People continue to cruise as their normal 100-120 kilometers an hour, despite the 2 inches of rain on the road and are hydroplaning everywhere. Additionally, people here don't really feel the need to turn on their lights while driving in the rain, and continue their behavior of not signaling when changing lanes. Driving to work today was taking my life in my hands (even more than it is on a normal daily basis) and it took me 3x as long to get there. Quite interesting, although I did enjoy seeing precipitation again since all I've seen is warm sunny weather for the last three months...
Our festive Costa Mince Pie... It was so pretty we had to try it, but it turns out, Jared and I do not enjoy them... Silly Brits and their crazy Christmas 'treats'...
Winter has arrived in Dubai. It has been raining for the last three straight days and today it has been POURING all day... I didn't think it was supposed to rain in Dubai. I thought that was like, one of the maybe three good things about living here. I've been told it usually rains only 5 times a year but it has rained 4 times in the last two weeks here (three over the last three days), so I guess this is abnormal, or else we will have filled our water quota for the year in another 12 hours. And since this is clearly not the norm, absolutely no one has a clue as to how to drive in the rain (think Southerners in the snow) and the infrastructure is in no way equipped for this much precipitation (flooding and mudslides everywhere... no drains are built into any of the roads). People continue to cruise as their normal 100-120 kilometers an hour, despite the 2 inches of rain on the road and are hydroplaning everywhere. Additionally, people here don't really feel the need to turn on their lights while driving in the rain, and continue their behavior of not signaling when changing lanes. Driving to work today was taking my life in my hands (even more than it is on a normal daily basis) and it took me 3x as long to get there. Quite interesting, although I did enjoy seeing precipitation again since all I've seen is warm sunny weather for the last three months...
Our festive Costa Mince Pie... It was so pretty we had to try it, but it turns out, Jared and I do not enjoy them... Silly Brits and their crazy Christmas 'treats'...
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