Watch: Cat clinging to car door in Dubai flooding scooped up by rescuers

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – In the course of the flooding in Dubai this week, rescuers discovered a soaked cat clinging to a automotive door and scooped it out of a number of toes of floodwater. 

On Tuesday, two years’ value of rain fell on Dubai, triggering flash flooding that crippled a metropolis not accustomed to rain. 

Within the video hooked up to the highest of this story, the soaked black-and-white feline might be seen hanging on to the automotive door’s deal with in a number of toes of floodwater. Rescuers in a kayak approached and nabbed the kitty. 

A meow or cry of reduction might be heard from the cat as it’s picked up and carried to security. 

“Each life counts in Dubai,” the Dubai Media Workplace wrote on X, previously Twitter, together with the rescue video.

The cat wasn’t the one animal displaced by the flooding. Members of the Abu Dhabi Animal Rescue and Foster Fb Group proceed to submit pictures and tales of felines that had been rescued from the storm and want properties. 

Dubai obtained 6.26 inches of rain as of Tuesday evening native time. Based on the UAE Nationwide Heart of Meteorology, the town will get 3.14 inches on common yearly.

UAE’s Nationwide Emergency Disaster and Catastrophe Administration Authority requested all residents to “keep at residence,” solely “leaving in instances of utmost necessity.” 

The identical potent storm system has brought on flooding throughout the Arabian Peninsula within the neighboring nations of Oman and Bahrain.

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