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  1. #21
    Originally Posted by RRLover View Post
    Weather Channel video of The Linq garage flooding: https://weather.com/news/weather/vid...WX_JK_10918_10

    I recall that the old Imperial Palace parking lot was built over a storm wash. It looks like even though there was reconstruction and changed names from Quad and to Linq, mother nature strikes again. I wonder what the car owners did who were parked in the structure when the flood it.

  2. #22
    Originally Posted by FABismonte View Post
    Originally Posted by RRLover View Post
    Weather Channel video of The Linq garage flooding: https://weather.com/news/weather/vid...WX_JK_10918_10

    I recall that the old Imperial Palace parking lot was built over a storm wash. It looks like even though there was reconstruction and changed names from Quad and to Linq, mother nature strikes again. I wonder what the car owners did who were parked in the structure when the flood it.
    Yep that area, basically where the high roller wheel sits, back to and including Koval road, near the Hilton Vacation complex, all floods out with just a little rain. I used to live at the intersection of Koval and Flamingo just a block away. And yes, with the construction of Linq and the "big wheel", they were supposed to have added advances drainage technology. Seems it is not advanced enough. lol

  3. #23
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    Originally Posted by LarryS View Post
    Its like people need to be talked down off a ledge, or reminded how to behave. They need to be assured everything will be ok.

    I bet vegas is 10x worse when they get rain.
    I don't know that people need to be talked down off a ledge. But it IS a somewhat unusual event. Especially a solid day or two of rain. We just don't get that very often. Not even once a year.

    AND there are some negative consequences. To begin with anytime it rains in Vegas, the roads get very slick. There are oils and things that normally get washed away with regular rainfall. Because we don't get that, when just a little rains occurs, it has the effect of an ice skating rink, in spots.

    There is also that flood situation. I really don't understand it, but just a little rain, like 1/2 inch, and we have major flooding. I have heard it has something to do with the ground so dry and hard it doesn't absorb like other places.

    We have those big concrete flood ways that are all over the city that are supposed to divert rainwater. They are bone dry 99% of the time. But just a small amount of rain and these things become raging rivers. 5 or 6 years ago, after a small amount of rain, a couple of high school kids were playing near one of those "instant rivers" and one lost his footing and was carried away, over 5 miles to where these things empty out in swamp land over by Sam Boyd Stadium, behind Boulder highway. His body was dug out of the mud several days later.

    Ever since I relocated here, I haven't been able to figure out how such a small amount of rain can cause such big problems.
    its all known predictable repeating events.Any area that goes months without rain gets oil deposits that slip up when water hits it. It happens where I live in northern Ca,
    Locals kn iw what to do, know how to drive, know what roads to take and what roads flood. Its a big yawn for most. Usual shot that happens..even if it happens once a year.

  4. #24
    Pity those poor unfortunates who dwell deep in the flood tunnels under the strip.

    The rain is NOT their friend.

    What, Me Worry?

  5. #25
    so there is free living accommodations in vegas, and people are crying about removal of free casino hotel rooms?

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