15 September, 2005
Evacuating UAE=nightmare?
When I was reading about the recent catastrophe exercise at the Dubai airport, I thought back on the Katrina disaster in the US and what's been said about the failures to evacuate enough people out of the path of the hurricane. Could you even imagine evacuating Adu Dhabi or Dubai in the event of a natural disaster of that magnitude? We live in Abu Dhabi and I imagine that we'd be best off ditching everything and trying to swim to the mainland. There's only two bridges tying AD to the mainland so driving off the island is probably out of the question.
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If anything is gonna delay an evacuation in Dubai, it will be drivers slowing down to "check it out"!
trying to swim to the mainland
*gleefully imagines The Palm residents jumping into the sea in their designer clothes, watching as their luxury villas and cars get washed away*
*buys speedboat, scuba gear and large looting sack*
That big new mosque would make a handy evacuation centre, given its size and location.
Dont worry, am sure some new Property developer will come up with a hurricane proof mini city with a huge glass dome to add to the endless list of Cities.
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