He clung to the roof of his home for about a half-hour before neighbors pointed rescuers in his direction. Across the valley, drivers found themselves trapped by rising water or stuck after their vehicles stalled. Some sat on the roofs of their cars and waited to be rescued.
At the time, the Las Vegas Fire Department was about half the size it is now with only 10 engines and between and firefighters. Szymanski said Engine 6 spent hours at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Flamingo Road, rescuing drivers who tried to cross through the flooded streets. We had every unit out on the street.
Thousands of gallons of water poured into the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace through a parking garage and back service entrance, leaving 2 feet of water standing in the center of the mall and flooding a portion of the casino floor.
Magician Lance Burton canceled one of his shows at the Monte Carlo, but illusionist David Copperfield decided that his show at Caesars Palace must go on. Many Strip attractions had to run with skeleton crews while employees were stuck in traffic on flooded freeways.
Rick Thomas, a magician who performed at the Tropicana, spent hours stuck on U. Highway 95 with two adult tigers in a trailer and a cub curled up in the front seat. In , the improvements were less than 25 percent complete and flood detention basins were still being constructed. The district has removed 54 square miles of flood zones and has another 25 years of work planned. It refers to a storm that has a 1 in chance of appearing on any day.
Another year storm had hit Henderson and Boulder City in The Flood Control District has identified areas across the valley that could flood again during a year storm and has an online tool to determine if a property is in one of those zones , to help residents purchase flood insurance. In the s, the U.
Department of Agriculture released a report on the history of floods in Clark County, much of which was based on early newspaper accounts. All night long thunder rolled and lightning flashed, but not until Friday morning did the clouds open and drench the parched face of the desert.
The storm dumped billions of gallons of rain on the valley in a little over 3 hours, most of it within just 90 minutes. The Flamingo Wash was unable to handle the rush of water and it began spilling into the Miracle Mile mobile home park on Boulder Highway. Three mobile homes were washed away and others were severely damaged. Malls were closed and thousands of gallons of water poured into the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. People were rescued from roofs of their homes and from vehicles that became trapped in the flood waters.
There were more than swift-water rescues that day. It also killed 2 people. One woman was killed in a crash and a man's body was pulled out of the Flamingo Wash after the storm. Police said a woman died in a Las Vegas auto accident that may have been caused by the heavy rain.
July rainfall is a relative rarity in the Southwest, with measurable precipitation falling only about once every seven years in downtown Los Angeles. Parts of Las Vegas got about 3 inches Thursday, more than two-thirds the normal total for an entire year. Forecasters said winds circulating around an upper-level high-pressure system over the Central Plains have been drawing warm, damp air from Mexico into the Southwest, setting off thunderstorms in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and southern Colorado.
This sort of occasional monsoonal condition, energized by heat, occurs here most commonly in July, August and September. Guy Pearson, a meteorologist with WeatherData Inc. Torrential rains began pounding Las Vegas shortly before noon Thursday.
Runoff quickly flooded Interstate 15 and nearby surface streets, bringing traffic to a halt. Several motorists had to be rescued from their stranded cars.
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