Sunday, October 15, 2006∞ Inches of Rain!!
Just wanted to share some images of why my shoes are STILL wet! I love shooting weather though, and here in the desert where, before Saturday, we'd had less than in inch of rain all year, this is as close to a hurricane as I am going to get!
It started off with a single flooded intersection and some lightning...
Asshole taxi drivers splashed everyone!
Almost me!
It continued with another downpour and another flooded intersection! This one with water spewing out of a manhole! Yummy!
My shoes smelled like poopy getting this shot and they never used it. *sigh*
Morning came, cars got crashed and storms formed over my head within minutes! Clouds were moving all different directions. Back in the Midwest if you see that happens it means you will be soon be interviewing a fat redneck who thought it was a freight train that demolished his trailer.
Not even The Strip was immune! I'm surprised METRO didn't come and chase me away so I wouldn't show all the rain in this paradise!
It started raining harder and harder... People in the CVS I was near were wondering why I was giggling with glee...
Soon LVB was starting to get flooded!
Rain was hitting my face so hard it hurt! I could have sworn it was hail! The winds picked up and were making it semi difficult for me to keep my fat hat on my fat head.
Within three minutes there were white water rapids flowing down the sidewalks, and eventually onto the strip it's self. Before I left, the water - on the street - was up to my ankle.
It was worse elsewhere though. On Decatur the water was nearly to my knee. The drive into the parking lot I was in looked more like a Lake Mead boat ramp then it did a driveway.
Idiots continued to drive through it though!
Idiots like this guy who had to have the fire department come and perform a swift water rescue!
The rescue was lame though. He just jumped out of his car and onto the fire truck. I was expecting helicopters and Baywatch like hot women to run in slow motion and jump on jet skis and head to them. After that they would come to me and complement me on my filming skills and we'd do it on the sidewalk in front of Wal*Mart...
Anyway, sorry they aren't bigger. The pictures that is. Had to go from XD to DVC to MiniDV to Adobe Photoshop. See you all tomorrow!
It started off with a single flooded intersection and some lightning...
Asshole taxi drivers splashed everyone!
Almost me!
It continued with another downpour and another flooded intersection! This one with water spewing out of a manhole! Yummy!
My shoes smelled like poopy getting this shot and they never used it. *sigh*
Morning came, cars got crashed and storms formed over my head within minutes! Clouds were moving all different directions. Back in the Midwest if you see that happens it means you will be soon be interviewing a fat redneck who thought it was a freight train that demolished his trailer.
Not even The Strip was immune! I'm surprised METRO didn't come and chase me away so I wouldn't show all the rain in this paradise!
It started raining harder and harder... People in the CVS I was near were wondering why I was giggling with glee...
Soon LVB was starting to get flooded!
Rain was hitting my face so hard it hurt! I could have sworn it was hail! The winds picked up and were making it semi difficult for me to keep my fat hat on my fat head.
Within three minutes there were white water rapids flowing down the sidewalks, and eventually onto the strip it's self. Before I left, the water - on the street - was up to my ankle.
It was worse elsewhere though. On Decatur the water was nearly to my knee. The drive into the parking lot I was in looked more like a Lake Mead boat ramp then it did a driveway.
Idiots continued to drive through it though!
Idiots like this guy who had to have the fire department come and perform a swift water rescue!
The rescue was lame though. He just jumped out of his car and onto the fire truck. I was expecting helicopters and Baywatch like hot women to run in slow motion and jump on jet skis and head to them. After that they would come to me and complement me on my filming skills and we'd do it on the sidewalk in front of Wal*Mart...
Anyway, sorry they aren't bigger. The pictures that is. Had to go from XD to DVC to MiniDV to Adobe Photoshop. See you all tomorrow!
posted by ewink at 4:44 PM
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2 Comments:
Very good pictures, Erin. Does Las Vegas have storm sewers or does it just run off into the desert?
Las Vegas has storm drains that run into the 445 miles of flood channels we have. From there the water flows into one of the 25 detention basins where it sits till it can slowly drain its way into the Las Vegas Wash and then to Lake Mead.
The desert here isn't like desert you see on TV. It's more like a fine layer of dust and sand on top of sand turned concrete. The ground is very hard and does not asorbe water well.
While we only get about 4 inches of rain a year, it usually comes in the form of monsoons that dump anywhere from 1/4 to 1 inch of rain in a very short amount of time.
Because of this, and the amount of trash everywhere, the storm drains cannot keep up and flooding happens. Plus there are a lot of new areas in the northwest, the north and the southwest that do not have flood control built yet (channels and basins).
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