Major Highway in Dubai Remains Inundated With Floodwater After Record Rainfall

Part of a major highway in Dubai remained flooded on Thursday, April 18, after record rainfall inundated the city.

Video captured by Kat Budd shows cars driving through floodwaters on Sheikh Zayed Road, one of the city’s main arteries. “This is normally a seven-lane motorway…completely underwater on this side, completely underwater on the other side, literally just one lane working on that side,” Budd says in the video.

The flooding prompted road closures and disrupted traffic in the city, according to local reports. Credit: Kat Budd via Storyful

Video transcript

- I was just driving down. This is normally seven lane motorway, you know, that just goes down the whole length of Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road. Completely underwater on this side, completely underwater on the other side. Literally just one lane working on that side. Kind of got people sort of doing two on this side. Yeah, mental.

I was just driving down. This is normally seven lane motorway, you know, that just goes down the whole length of Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road. Completely underwater on this side, completely underwater on the other side. Literally just one lane working on that side. Kind of got people sort of doing two on this side. Yeah, mental.

I was just driving down. This is normally seven lane motorway, you know, that just goes down the whole length of Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road. Completely underwater on this side, completely underwater on the other side. Literally just one lane working on that side. Kind of got people sort of doing two on this side. Yeah, mental.

I was just driving down. This is normally seven lane motorway, you know, that just goes down the whole length of Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road. Completely underwater on this side, completely underwater on the other side. Literally just one lane working on that side. Kind of got people sort of doing two on this side. Yeah, mental.