The 18 months of rain was 5” which seems like nothing. However, the first time I was there in 2013, they had a 1.5” rainstorm, and most of the city was flooded. I had to walk several blocks just to get back to my hotel. Cars were stuck blocking all the roads.
Sound like they should have spend some of their mega petro dollars on designing a drainage system when building their urban sprawl. Rain on sand produces mud and dries quickly. Rain on concrete accumulates, but the concept of “too much water” may be hard for tradition bound dessert dwellers to grasp.
Yah, some places just cannot handle change of any sort. I used to live in Houston, Tx. Got storms regularly. One summer we got two tropical storms — those are still-born hurricanes. Little wind.
1st one dumped about 3 feet in 36 hours. 2nd, about ten days later did ~ 2feet in 24 hours.
Yes, that is FEET, not inches!
Even the alligators in the creeks drowned.