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12:36pm on Monday, 14th August, 2023:
Anecdote
I bumped into Ash this morning.
Ash used to run one of the two corner shops in our village (still known as "Ash's", even though he's now retired). He made more profit out of this than my brother did when he ran a corner shop, and bought a villa in Dubai. He still owns the building where Ash's is (plus now a chippy called "Uncle Kam's") and has a flat above it where he stays when he's in the UK.
The temperature in Dubai is 50°C at the moment, but that isn't the full reason he's back. He's back because the Dubai authorities had a go at controlling the weather to cool the place down. They sent drones up to shepherd clouds together somehow, in order to get it to rain. The exercise worked rather too well: they were the worst rains Ash has ever seen (and as he has family in places where there are monsoons, I suspect that's a pretty damned heavy downpour). Along with the rains came winds that uprooted all the palm trees in his gated community. Some were in swimming pools (including his), some were on house roofs, some were on cars, most were blocking the roads.
He decided to return to the UK until it was all sorted out by the estate management company. Naturally, it's been raining here, too, although only enough to be an inconvenient source of misery, not enough to set off car alarms.
Some people may argue that climate emergencies are not man-made, but in this particular case in Dubai it definitely was.
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