If you’ve ever been to Jeddah, you’d understand why it floods. It’s on the Red sea, in a flat valley like LA and we know what happens when it rains in LA. Sure, they could use better drainage, but so could LA. At least they don’t have the fires and mudslides.
There are problems in the Saudi system, they know that and a lot of people are trying to fix it from the inside. Saudi isn’t nearly as unstable as the rest of the bunch over there.
Isn’t that primarily because they have so much money, they can pay everyone off?