July 29, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 1 minute read • 11 Comments Flash flooding in Las Vegas Thursday afternoon, stranding motorists. Photo from Screen grab /Twitter

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The Las Vegas Strip looked more like nearby Lake Mead Thursday night as flash flooding took a heavy toll on Sin City.

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The New York Post reported that the Strip, along with casinos such as Circa, Caesar’s Palace and Planet Hollywood, parking lots and airports were either flooded or affected by the heavy rain. Video I got from an employee working near the sports book at Circa. Cleaning up after the flood that just happened. You certainly don’t see this every day. @8NewsNow #8NN Courtesy: Dan Miller pic.twitter.com/CxmjHH78Rn — Victoria Saha (@VictoriaSaha) July 29, 2022

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Video posted on Twitter showed Vegas streets looking like a river and water pouring into some casinos and the parking lot at the Linq, another Strip resort. Las Vegas Fire Information Officer Tim Szymanski told the Post that no injuries have been reported.

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A Las Vegas resident named Alexander Wolf described to The Post “curtains” of rain falling outside his window. “The lightning was almost constant and the power went out several times,” he told The Post. There is a monsoon season from July to September, Simon Jowitt, an economic geologist and professor at the University of Las Vegas, told The Post, but additional flooding does not occur very often.

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“We have good drainage systems, but sometimes the water just overwhelms them,” Jowitt said. “The other thing is that it doesn’t rain often, so it’s hard to check whether the roofs and such are really waterproof. probably what happened in the casinos (on Thursday night).” Local airports were seeing flight delays in departures — Harry Reid International Airport was an average of 50 minutes earlier Thursday — due to flooding, and FlightAware.com reported that boarding planes were being held until at least 11 p.m. at the departure location. “My flight has been delayed an hour so far and maybe longer,” Toronto-bound passenger Sondra Kidd told The Post. “Many planes had to land at different airports.”

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