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Back then a lot of the roads were far more rudimentary than nowadays, too. Stretches of road were regularly damaged / washed away by the annual monsoon. One year, we couldn't get the the Ex-pat Country Club for WEEKS. The HORROR.

I lived in Dubai as a kid (1976 - 1981). Obviously a VERY different Dubai to that of nowadays (my Dad was a project manager on the building of the World Trade Centre - Dubai's very first 'sky scraper'). By my recollection, for Dubai to get ALL of it's annual rainfall in a very short period of...