While directing traffic, two North Las Vegas city employees died after they were hit by a wall of water at Losee and Craig roads and were swept away from their vehicle. Well owners were warned of contamination. Sewage plants were overwhelmed, and fetid water was expelled through manhole covers. Rushing water and erosion brought down telephone poles.

Some vehicles were reported to be found miles away from Caesars. Cranes had to be brought in to move the cars. Raging water swept down the Flamingo Wash into the parking lot at Caesars Palace on the Strip, flooding hundreds of cars. While some gamblers sat unaware inside Las Vegas Strip casinos, floodwaters put Interstate 15 exits underwater and closed major intersections. (The 2003 entry also contains information from The Associated Press).Ī summer monsoon triggered a flash flood in the Las Vegas Valley. This gallery is accompanied by Review-Journal remembrances of several of those events. Thursday’s massive storm across the Las Vegas Valley triggered more than several memories of all-time flooding in what normally is a very arid spot, as Lake Mead’s falling capacity illustrates.

(Jessica Ebelhar/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Heavy rains and flooding caused road closures, including the 215 Beltway.

Fourteen-year-old Jonathan Gonzalez walks home from school through flooding along Eastern Avenue near Stewart Avenue in Las Vegas on Sept.

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