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The same storm responsible for torrential rain, life-threatening flash flooding, high winds and mountain snow in California is swinging slowly inland over the southwestern United States into midweek.
The Las Vegas storm results in flooded casinos as well as 22 car crashes and 15 outdoor fires. More heavy rainfall is expected. Flash flood hits Las Vegas Strip, sending water pouring into casinos
Portions of the Las Vegas Strip flooded, including a channel outside of The Linq as the city of Las Vegas was under a flash flood warning. [12] The Nevada Department of Transportation closed travel lanes on Nevada State Route 447. [13] Debris closed all but one lane on U.S. Route 93 northbound. [14]
At least two people have died and hundreds have been rescued in Roswell, New Mexico, after extreme overnight rainfall brought severe flooding, stranding motorists and sweeping away cars.
As of June 2013, a total of $1.7 bill was spent on flood control, including construction of 90 detention basins and approximately 581 miles of channels and underground storm drains. To date, 51 square miles have been removed from federally identified FEMA flood zones, saving residents millions of dollars per year in flood insurance premiums.
New Mexico experienced record-breaking rainfall and flash flooding over the weekend, resulting in two deaths and 300 rescues by the National Guard. Dramatic video captures sheriff stranded on top ...
The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
The Spring River channel overflowed causing what the National Weather Service in Albuquerque described as "extreme flooding" in downtown Roswell and throughout the southeastern New Mexico town of ...