Las Vegas flooding

https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/las-vegas-flooding-multiple-casinos-entire-strip-airport-under-water-amid-storm/

It's funny to keep seeing videos of leaky ceilings in all the casinos.  I guess they don't know or care they have leaky roofs because it doesn't rain often enough to matter.    

one inch of rain really wreaks havoc there.      Too bad it doesn't put much of a dent into lake mead

A major part of the problem is that a couple of decades ago, Clark County removed most restrictions on building in the "hundred-year flood plain."  So homes and streets were built where it, um, hardly ever floods.

 

Then, oopsy.

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