From: Tina Tawdre (dlvdisc@geekbabe.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 11:04:17 CDT
> while a Las Vegas downpour is exactly that the
>chances of striking one don't appear to be too high. In 40 plus visits
>over 24 years covering well in excess 200 days I've only been in one.
I was there last year in late July for a week at a conference. It
rained at least a little every day, and twice those super storms rolled
through. You could see them coming (huge black walls of clouds) and the
TV weather people would interrupt programming to let you know about it.
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
it was even more common to see that in early August. No rain coat or
umbrella would have stood up to them. Definitely different than any
other weather I had ever encountered there at other times of the years.
-- Tina
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