Ex Jet Airways CEO Counters Anand Mahindra 'Not Mumbai' Remark On Dubai Rains: 'Would People In Snowy Oslo Mock Bombay?'

(MENAFN- Live Mint) "The massive rainfall in Dubai, that brought life to a halt in the city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been making headlines. Amid intense debates on a probable cloud seeding project gone wrong situation among experts, Anand Mahindra had in a tweet compared the situation in the emirate to India's Mumbai. The comment was called out by former Jet Airways CEO Sanjiv Kapoor's what happenedMahindra Group Chairperson, Anand Mahindra, had on Tuesday, taken to microblogging site X to share a tweet on Dubai rain and floods. His tweet read,“Nope. Not Mumbai. Dubai...”. Mahindra had shared a video of a vehicle wading through knee-deep waters. This is in contrast to a Dubai known for its extremely arid climate video showed cars and trucks partially submerged in water. The scene also showed various luxury cars stranded in traffic due to the floodwaters Wednesday former CEO of Jet Airways, Sanjiv Kapoor, called out Anand Mahindra and said that it was an incorrect analogy. Sanjiv Kapoor reposted the tweet, saying,“Incorrect analogy. Dubai was not built for such heavy rains - rains that would flood most cities. A better analogy would be if it suddenly snowed heavily in Bombay, which was obviously not built to handle snow at all. Would people in snowy Oslo mock Bombay?”The former CEO of Jet Airways also attached a follow up post wherein he clarified that Anand Mahindra might not be mocking Dubai.“Ok, upon re-reading the post, maybe it is not mocking Dubai. However the point remains Dubai was not built for heavy rains, no matter what the source of the rain (seeding etc). It would be impractical to build cities to handle any extreme weather scenario, however unlikely,” he said another video Sanjiv Kapoor said, \"This is not normal rain in any city! If seeded, it produced much more than they would have been expecting. A year's worth of rain in a few hours!”Dubai RainsThe desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting travel through the world's busiest airfield for international travel state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday“a historic weather event” that surpassed“anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949.” That's before the discovery of crude oil in this energy-rich nation then part of a British protectorate known as the Trucial States also fell in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. However, the rains were acute across the UAE. One reason may have been“cloud seeding,” in which small planes flown by the government go through clouds burning special salt flares. Those flares can increase precipitation.

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