From: annie (dlvdisc@geekbabe.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 11:57:21 CDT
>Very fast moving. High winds, torrent rains, street flooding, then an
>hour later everything dried up and the sun was back out. Locals told me
I was once driving south on Industrial behind CP when one of those
monsoons hit. The curve and underpass by Flamingo were flooded and
fortunately nobody was attempting to drive it. It had been raining only
5 minutes or so.
One thing they don't tell you when you check into the Imperial Palace is
that the lower level of the parking structure is right in the path of
what they call Flamingo Wash. If you can imagine a seldom-used drainage
ditch mostly at ground level, that is it. :) They tell me (the ubiquitous
"they") that the IP parking structure becomes a wading pool when one of
those hits.
What is interesting is that Flamingo Wash drains into what is known as
Las Vegas Wash, part of which becomes literally a swamp in the middle of
the desert. The "Wetlands" area extends from over by Sam Boyd Stadium
toward Lake Mead. I was turned on to this by some cow-orkers on a very
impromptu tour of the area one morning. If you have a 4wd vehicle (and
are contractually allowed to drive it off road <VBFG>) this is a very
different thing to do in Las Vegas.
We entered via an unmarked dirt road behind the stadium and cruised a
maze of almost-roads and non-roads and eventually came out over by that
new hoity-toity hotel by Lake Las Vegas.
Sorry for digressing, but that is a very interesting and different
thing to do in Las Vegas, one that you will certainly not read about
in "What's On" magazine. :)
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