Mother Nature works in confounding ways: snow flurries in Phoenix, a balmy Christmas in Buffalo, and this week's catastrophic flood in the normally parched desert 50 miles north of this resort city.
In what some term the area's worst storm in decades, a 2-mile-long stretch of Interstate 15 in rural Moapa was destroyed by 4 inches of rain that lashed the roadway in just an hour on Monday. The dying throes of Tropical Storm Norbert dumped as much rain on the area in 60 minutes as Las Vegas gets in a year.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-highway-washout-20140912-story.html
In Nevada, washed-out interstate is truckers' nightmare
Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by High Desert Dweller, Sep 13, 2014.
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Hopefully this makes people realize how valuable we actually are..
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Hopefully some of that water will find its way to Lake Mead.
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I believe they said it only took a few minutes for the road in Phoenix to flood. Water was up to the bottom of the window on some car doors. It was so fast that the drivers were hit by it before they knew what was even happening. Really hard to imagine a desert not sucking the water up fast instead of flooding like that.
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It has been so dry for so long that the ground is solid and repels the water, so it rushes to low ground to evaporate. As for the lake, rain doesn't help. We need our water by snow on the west side of Colorado. Anything else is irrelevant and in this case dangerous and destructive.
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i can't wait till monday or tuesday to travel that road and survey the damage.
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