{"id":9607,"date":"2012-09-11T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2012-09-11T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:56:37","slug":"mob-attraction-inundated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mob-attraction-inundated\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mob Attraction&#8221; inundated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4899\" title=\"trop-pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/trop-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/trop-pic.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/trop-pic-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8230; and not with customers unfortunately. <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> is currently experiencing torrential downpours and flash flooding &#8212; including on the Strip. This suddenly closed the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/referenceguide-activitydetail.cfm?ActivityID=311\" target=\"_self\">Mob Attraction<\/a>,&#8221; thanks to a wee bit of a design flaw. According to a Trop source, the Mob expo is just off the lowest point of the pool area. So when rainwater came sloshing down the landscaped &#8220;hills&#8221; surrounding it, the deluge burst an emergency-exit door and made a beeline for the <strong>Mob Attraction<\/strong>. The latter was quickly sandbagged, its electrical equipment unplugged. (It&#8217;d be a frightful shame if digitized <strong>Jimmy Caan<\/strong> got shorted out in mid-clich\u00e9.) The Attraction is temporarily on day-to-day status, post-flood, so double-check before paying a visit. They might still be sucking water out of the carpets tomorrow, from the sound of things. <strong>Alex Yemenidjian<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegasinc.com\/news\/2012\/sep\/11\/tropicana-closes-its-poker-room\/?__utma=201616023.1533475150.1333395164.1345064372.1347407277.19&amp;__utmb=201616023.2.9.1347407278216&amp;__utmc=201616023&amp;__utmx=-&amp;__utmz=201616023.1345064372.18.13.utmcsr=facebook.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=\/l.php&amp;__utmv=-&amp;__utmk=213941908\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">just can&#8217;t catch a break<\/a>. The rainfall was so thick that\u00a0<!--more--><strong>The Rio<\/strong> could not be seen from <em>Las Vegas Advisor<\/em> offices &#8230; scarcely a block away. (There&#8217;s some kind of large, permanent-looking shed going up in the Rio parking lot. Any thoughts as to what it might be? An ongoing swap meet to sell <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> inventory and service that $20 billion debt?)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong><\/em>: The flood channel immediately north of the <strong>Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino<\/strong> leapt its banks and interdicted traffic on\u00a0<strong>Paradise Road<\/strong>. No word yet on conditions beneath <strong>Imperial Palace<\/strong>, which <strong>Ralph Engelstad<\/strong> built right atop a wash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and not with customers unfortunately. Las Vegas is currently experiencing torrential downpours and flash flooding &#8212; including on the Strip. This suddenly closed the Tropicana Las Vegas&#8216; &#8220;Mob Attraction,&#8221; thanks to a wee bit of a design flaw. According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mob-attraction-inundated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,28,4,117,149,7,140,8,87,9,19,146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}