voyager Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Labor Day 2023, Nevada flooding. EVELYN! Please check in. Hoping you are safe and dry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 I have a friend at Burning Man and my cousin lives in Vegas. Oy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyn Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 I'm good. Thank you for checking on me. This is our yearly monsoon season. It used to be like this every year before we hit the major drought we are still in (yes, deserts can have droughts). My area got +/- 2" of rain in under 2 hours. We are on high ground and meet code that requires being able to deal with 100 year floods. Other areas got hammered. The washes are at very high levels. But not overrun. The ground is so dry it can't absorb the volume of rain before low lying areas flood. And older areas that were built before the code are in bad shape. Especially some areas of East Las Vegas and (small areas) of the Strip. Also the underground tunnels where homeless people live (especialy during the summer trying to avoid the heat). Thankfully the city has been strong about evacuating them when possible heavy rainfall is predicted. An example of how dangerous the floods can be...a few years ago a brand new firetruck was out doing a swift water rescue and got swept away. The firemen had to be rescued by a helicopter. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronS Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 glad you’re ok. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood10 Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 So coming from a place where the media proclaims every rain as the storm of the century, I have to know if you New Yorkers are seriously having a 1,000 year storm. Really? If so, good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchW Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 (edited) Yeah, it rained...a fucking lot. Actually, we had the rainiest September in something like 100 years. And evidently it rained as much yesterday as it usually does the whole month. If we could only pipe this water to the desert southwest. Edited September 30 by MitchW 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 See the Surrealism of Everyday Life thread for the current and upcoming weather in my part of the Bay Area. Sheesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voyager Posted October 6 Author Share Posted October 6 High of 91 here today. TOO HOT for me. No relief until Sunday/Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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