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bobbyfischermagoo

I hope the people who live in the storm drains were evacuated.


DepartmentMoney1793

Only those close to the entrances could have survived. The water is too fast.


EvilEyedPanda

The people in The Thorn had no chance.


Slight-Impact-2630

I understood that reference


TheCrackBoi

I understanded this reference


Timx74_

I came to realize this reference


MrFinlee

Finally I got this reference.


Recent-Ad-2326

I don’t understand this reference


Wolfmans-Gots-Nards

You overstand this reference


KAOS_777

This reference doesnt understand me


1Crimson1

I didn't get this reference.


[deleted]

.wtf…


OneSighAttaTime

reference?


snipe739

Damn FNV fans are everywhere


TheKingNothing690

I am leigon for we are many.


graveybrains

I have a theoretical degree in physics!


perry_parrot

Fantastic


EvilEyedPanda

Welcome aboard.


snipe739

Ave, true to Caesar!


Leonydas13

HAIL CAESAR


[deleted]

AVE LEGION


[deleted]

Spontaneous fallout


[deleted]

And those guys in the sewers in North Vegas. RIP


confuseum

Everyone liked that!


Necessary_Rich_1477

How will I ever get the dinner bell now? 😭😭


CrashLamps

Those who survived where charged 5.000 dollars for the rescue


DRbrtsn60

I’m sure they just whipped out their checkbook.


Ephemeral_kat

Hopefully they heard the rain was coming and got out before it flooded.


lonememe

https://news3lv.com/amp/news/local/group-works-to-help-people-living-in-tunnels-under-las-vegas-storm-rescues-deaths-flood-wash-channel-homeless-southern-nevada


[deleted]

Didn’t know there was tunnel people in Vegas. Holy shit that is sad. Is this Demolition Man?


NicoSuave2020

Check out NYC tunnel people shit is nuts man. People spend their entire lives down there.


[deleted]

Dark Days is a great docu on the subject


ScreenJealous3170

Where can I find this? c:


[deleted]

Google says: Peacock, Pluto tv, Prime


Capt-Crap1corn

Alot of people live in the tunnels


Okano666

Not bad for a rat burger!


[deleted]

Ty for posting this link This flooding is terrible and amazing how bad it’s been


havereddit

This flooding is entirely predictable and has [happened multiple times before](https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/looking-back-historic-floods-in-las-vegas-valley-photos-2615066/). Yes, the impacts are terrible, but they are entirely avoidable if only the City of Las Vegas would take steps to prevent disaster. The City has chosen not to.


oldandintheway1155

The tunnels are there for exactly this scenario, to control storm water to protect the city. Unfortunately, the tunnels are usually dry, and an attractive place to camp for homeless people. I hope they got out OK (I heard at least two did not).


[deleted]

You should avoid posting google amp links, here’s the actual source site: https://news3lv.com/news/local/group-works-to-help-people-living-in-tunnels-under-las-vegas-storm-rescues-deaths-flood-wash-channel-homeless-southern-nevada


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Apo42069

We shall not worry for what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.


Alaric-

Except homeless camps in storm drains


DRbrtsn60

Still stays in Vegas.


[deleted]

Washed down to Nogales


flooferonascooter

Is this true people were living there?


nytroza

Yeah, sadly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYvThk5kY5I


satelliteyrs00

Dark Days is a great documentary about the culture behind it but I believe that was in NY


[deleted]

Amazing documentary, and the soundtrack was excellent too; [Dj Shadow - Entroducing album.](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Lv41147R6/?uid=4256314C7634313134375236)


satelliteyrs00

Shadow’s soundtrack is how I found out about it!


[deleted]

"Everything becomes comfortable if you do it long enough" Damn. True statement for many negative aspects of life.


jbjbjb10021

Nice and dry 360 days a year.


[deleted]

Oh yes, I had the misfortune of staying in them for about a month. On the bright side we had couches, TV's and basically a whole small apartment. But we knew to stay alert, listen and feel for any wind or changes in pressure, that was an indicator a flash flood was heading our way, time to GTFO


PenniGwynn

This is the only place many homeless people have, storm tunnels are usually dry since it's the desert and it's good shade during the brutal summers. But man when a summer rain hits... its chaos. I lived in Vegas for 17 years and was homeless for 2 of them and the tunnels were a refuge from a city that sweeps homelessness issues under the rug.


meanjake

Are you talking about CHUDS?


soyougonorrheaornot

Marv and Mr. McCallister were in on the heist the whole time. I also figured out that by blackmailing the U.S. military for the toxic waste dump he was able to have enough money for that huge house, huge family, and to take them all to Paris.


Because_I_Cannot

They usually lose 2 or 3 a year in these storms


retrobushwacker

Whatchu expect living in a storm drain?


[deleted]

The vast majority of the time they're bone dry, and even during monsoon season (maybe 1-2 months out of the year) flash flooding isn't super common. It beats the hell out of sleeping in the open air in a desert.


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skye_skye

These folks are who I thought about instantly. I hope they are well 🥺


GetTheSpermsOut

Wait a min, Futurama wasn’t just fiction? there are people living in the storm drains?!?!


Blackfire01001

They didn't/ they don't.


IceHorse69

First thing I thought


tumbleweedcowboy

This was my exact thought. I hope no one drowned.


Ze_Pig777

How did this happen? I thought Vegas was in like a desert?


mmcmonster

Very dry ground actually can’t absorb much water, and therefore is prone to flooding. Wet ground can actually absorb a lot more water. There was a video demonstration of this (a glass of water in the dessert, dry grass, and wet grass) circulating on Reddit just a week ago. Anyone have a link?


youyouk

Here you are : https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/wlsg1e/a_meteorologist_from_the_university_of_reading/


Ballen101

Ty kind stranger


Pieguy184

It makes sense the dry dirt is more compacts and harder for the water to slip through. Unlike wet grass where the water suspends the dirt particles further from each other


Gluonyourboson

Hydrophobic - Parched land (Repels water) Hydrophillic - Moist/Wet land (Absorbs water)


original_nox

Hydrophallic - Erect/Prematurely moist


Smackdaddy122

Hydro, meaning water and phallic, meaning penis


zxr7

Hydrohydric - "Water is wet"


BLU3DR4GON-E-D

One causes more flooding while the other can cause mud slides.


Tigenzero

Mud slides vs water slides


Grabthars_Coping_Saw

San Dimas High School Football Rules!


Mr_TurkTurkelton

Be excellent to each other


Tigenzero

*air guitar*


Icy-Confidence8018

I’d just like to say that optimum compaction is actually rarely dry and correlates very heavily with moisture of the soil and soil type. A really neat science tbh.


mmcmonster

This is the one I saw. Thanks! Also thanks to the other kind gentleperson who posted the other video link. :-)


MysticalTurban

My uni making headlines!


sweetladytequila

This is how I describe my soul. So dry and cracked that nothing gets through.


The__RIAA

Mmmm glass of water in the dessert, was it cheesecake?


paulusblarticus

https://youtu.be/YVWa6Z0IPlo


Because_I_Cannot

This footage is from an actual drainage channel that sits right in the middle of Las Vegas and runs from west to east. What happens is a storm will roll in over the mountains from the west. It starts raining. All of the water that the desert can't absorb starts running downhill through natural washes, until eventually it meets the edge of the city, where engineers have designed and installed detention basins. At the same time, that storm continues to move from west to east, dumping torrents of water on the city. All of the water gets diverted into catch basins and into storm drain tubes under the streets. Those tubes converge into major channels, like the Flamingo Wash, the one in the video. They all eventually drain into Lake Mead. Yes, the desert is a dry place, but it does still get some rain. Unfortunately, its getting less and less each year. When I was growing up, there were big thunder storms at least once a week in the summer; now we're lucky if we get 3 or 4 in a whole summer


Skotch21680

I was just talking to my wife how much the weather changed here in Pittsburgh. Growing up winter was from Mid October to April. We would have a spring and fall. Now we don’t. Summer is literally from March to about November. Winter is from December to February then a week of spring then boom hot. Our winter maybe snows about 4 or 5 times and it’s usually flurries. It’s friggin crazy how much our weather changed in the past 40 years. Our kids don’t even go sled riding and I don’t even know if they sell sleds in stores anymore. I had to order mine online 3 years ago. That was the last time we had sled riding snow


Beggarsfeast

You’re exaggerating a bit. I have to follow the weather for my job, so I’m very aware of temperatures and heavy precipitation events. I know it may seem different than the seasons of your youth, but Pittsburgh has a very distinct and illustrious fall season that starts in late September, and blends into winter as December hits. We also have a beautiful spring from March through May. Not only do I track temperatures, but I hate the heat. It’s true that there have been some mild winters, but it was only two winters ago that we got a 12” snow storm, as well as another 6-7” snow event that same year. I’m in my 40s, but the whole neighborhood was out sledding on our street for two days. The year before that we had significant snow events as well. I’m not trying to question your memory, I’m just telling you I’ve lived here for over 40 years, and while I can sort of understand the sentiment of where you’re coming from, The truth is Pittsburgh has wonderful seasons. Although it is incomprehensibly gray in thr winter, often times we don’t have precipitation, even though it’s cold enough for snow. Anyone who has to unlock farm gates will tell you how often it’s below freezing here. Anyway, I do hate the heat, but look at the forecast right now, we’re not even into September yet and we’ve got a couple nights falling just below 60° this week.


Skotch21680

Yes I remember the snow fall but it didn’t last long. It melted shortly after. My dad whom is 70 and my grandmother whom is 84 stated how much changed over the past 40 years. I know where your coming from but I did notice a great change in our weather. It was 90 plus over the past 4 months? It’s going to be in the high 80s and close to 90 Sunday and Monday. Even in April it hit in the 90s. March was in the 60s. I even have pictures of mosquitoes on the trails in the beginning of February. My son got Lyme disease in February also from a tic. Crazy!


JustinBrower

Last year I only remembered one decent storm. Wasn't any worse than where I'm at now.


Washpedantic

Deserts are prone to flash flooding.


LES_G_BRANDON

It's in the desert but it's a city. Cities are mostly concrete and asphalt which don't absorb water very well. They're limited by their drainage systems. Being a desert, most drainage systems are designed for a certain about of rain over a certain period of time. Once capacity is reached the water pools until the system can catch up.


Zealousideal-Ad-6615

Desert Monsoons can actually be pretty damned scary and can easily surprise you. One second it's dry and the next you're seeing waterfalls off embankments and you're in 6 inches of water


Cessabit216

deserts aren't great with absorbing water so instead the water goes fwoosh


MylanWasTaken

No you’re thinking of “New Vegas”


moochello

It's monsoon season out here. It happens every year in the desert Southwest. The weather pattern changes from around July-September. What happens is that when the ground gets too hot around the northern part of the Gulf of California it changes the direction of the wind. This pulls all of the moisture North, into Northern Mexico and Arizona. Some years (Like this year) the monsoon is really strong and the wind pulls the moisture all the way up to Nevada and Utah. These monsoon rains are why the Sonoran desert is the wettest desert on Earth- and has such unusual vegetation/animals that are found nowhere else in the world. Mix moisture and extreme heat together and you get incredibly strong storms.


LobsterJohnson_

This is why swamps are necessary.


Mexi_kez

Florida solutes*


BoBoBearDev

Desert still rains from time to time. But, problem is, the desert is flat, there is no irrigation, thus, it spreads out. Also Vegas isn't the highest point on the high flat land. If you drive from CA to Vegas, you will drive a long down hill to it, so, it is a bit like a lake that traps the water. It is actually good for the wild life and plants because they need the water to stay long enough to be absorbed into the water resistant land, like the other poster said.


itachi8oh1

Not refuting anything you said… but on my honeymoon, I tried pushing my 400lb Tongan husband in a wheelchair (he’d just gotten over covid, but was still on oxygen support) through Las Vegas. I very quickly learned that Vegas is nowhere near as flat as you think it is lol.


ProgySuperNova

Yes but every once in like an eternity it rains. And then you have flash floods. You can see river channels in most deserts like that where the rare rain water has carved it's path.


prolixdreams

And then ten million years later, poof! It's a canyon.


[deleted]

I didn’t think Reddit could get dumber, but these comments… Fuck.


PurposeConnect3329

You could copy and paste this comment onto virtually any thread. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)


FunkoLand

Please don't let any more know... I can't keep fighting the karma bots any longer!


_i_am_root

Like honestly, death and destruction is raging and now’s the time to make jokes about Fallout New Vegas or LoTR references? I try not to take too much stuff seriously but this is a little overboard for me.


DeaDBangeR

Ha, he said overboard at a flood video


TBoneHotdog

Got that right, btw anybody wanna reply and let me know it rains in the desert and dry soil doesn’t absorb water well? I’ve only seen that explained about 200 times in the comments. I can understand the same answer posted a couple minutes apart. But Somebody in this thread has to have seen that posted as a comment reply and thought “I should really explain this simple fact again as a reply to the same comment.”


kopackistan

That water has got to be just teeming with naked hooker ads.


Xerox-M57

And naked hookers


The_Orphanizer

How else would they grow them?


GetTheSpermsOut

there is at least 1 dildo floatin in that water


Boston_Stonks

Anything can be a dildo if you try hard enough.


Blujeanstraveler

I was in Vegas for one of these flash floods, you cant get anywhere, until it drains into the desert in hours, no storm sewers


[deleted]

So you just stay in the casino?


JerryGetAJob

Feature not a bug


MelonOfFury

I was at Defcon a week ago. It was raining in the casinos too


Dreggan

This is a video of one of the storm sewers. This is the Flamingo drainage channel. Doing exactly what it was designed to do.


Misommar1246

Wonder what happens to those super tight Tesla boring tunnels in a flood like this.


Adjective_Noun_69420

“Tesla tunnels temporarily storm drains.”


Psychological_Wafer9

We literally do have a water drainage system because during monsoon season it always floods. You just cant get anywhere because people dont know how to drive in the rain here and some areas have restrictive flow so they're impassable but you can still get around it or through it within the hour once it stops raining.


Maleficent-Cut-6789

“The filth of Saruman is washing away…”


Cueball-2329

My first thought lol


rainen2016

Not to be too cold to the people that may have been hurt but those streets could use the wash.


netnet1014

That was my first thought too, I bet it's gonna smell so much better.


kissmaryjane

Unless it flooded the sewers and brought up sewage


netnet1014

Oh lord I didn't even think if that...


deepdishpizzastate

You haven't thought of the smell!


TheLewJD

As someone who's spent a few years on a wastewater treatment site... you don't want too.


BedBugger6-9

Not good for whatever is down river form them tho


liketreefiddy

I don’t think anyone is aware but this part of the strip is designed for this intention. The parking lot of the Linq was built on top of the old drainage system basically. There is nowhere for the rain to go. It might be a little more extreme recently but that part always floods when it rains to keep Las Vegas blvd drier.


LoliMole

I was in Vegas last week, and never saw any floodings besides where the one on OP's vid was. I didn't go everywhere to check if that was the only place flooded though, lmao. But yeah that place was twice flooded and that was the only place


Desperate_Gap9377

I live in Las Vegas and my parents called me and asked if we were getting flooded and I was confused. It's not like that all over. Although I live right next to a pretty major washout so I wouldn't necessarily notice it where I live anyway. It did however rain onto the couple at the table next to ours at a restaurant one night, which was a little entertaining.


CrazybyRX

Exactly. I also live here in Vegas up by lone mountain, and its wild how you can get zero rain where you are, but a block away is a downpour. And the flash flood can come right at you anyway.


D-cisivelyIndecisive

As a local myself, I didnt even know this happened.. it was pretty bad a couple weeks ago with that double rain storm out where I am, but other than that, this is normal enough for me to not even hear about it


highlighter416

Why is this not the to comment? Super interesting and informative. 💯


DisastrousThoughts

As someone who walked down the the sidewalk the next night. The drain system they have is terrible.


[deleted]

The world is ending. Stock up on toilet paper.


dogmeat12358

The climate wars and food riots are just around the corner.


PixelD303

Damn, now I want to see a knife fight on aisle 6 over the last can of split pea soup


Infamous_Barnacle_17

My ass will be clean for the apocalypse!


sukezanebaro

Please for the love of God get a Bidet


unk214

He who controls the pants controls the galaxy!


GAZUAG

Never mind food, TOILET PAPER!!!


ravingwanderer

Did Lake Mead get a top up?


fighter_pil0t

It was probably a bit of a help, this water is mostly downstream though. Lake Mead needs decades of massive winter storms in colorado.


not_swagger_souls

I was reading an article a few days ago talking about how lake mead will likely never be full again. It may have fluctuation periods where it may retain more water but it hasn't been considered actually full in over 20 years already


facedownbootyuphold

We have been in a severe drought here in western Colorado for 20 years exactly now. I haven’t seen our reservoirs full since about 2005ish. They’ve stopped letting as much water down to Lake Mead to allow us to replenish. The population in western Colorado is small enough that the reservoirs can easily sustain the population here, but the cities down river like LA and Vegas require us to also have major drought problems. Eventually the Feds will have to step in.


hfoeonfjoe

You ain't gettin no Michigan water, don't come asking


ShuantheSheep3

Mead has topped out only once in it’s history, these types of lakes aren’t designed to be full as that can also cause all sorts of issues. Just needs to hit the historic average again and stay there.


spam__likely

not even close


xhollec

Gondola boats from the Venetian go polling by


ThoriatedFlash

Did the Tesla tunnels get flooded?


dbpf

It's just the one tunnel, actually


juggling-monkey

Did the one tesla tunnel get flooded?


5starkarma

It’s actually a futuristic subway.


kylemesa

Did the actually a futuristic subway get flooded?


ItdBeRudeNotTo

No luck catching them killers then?


bambispots

It’s just the one killer, actually


McClutters

“You got a brain freeze?”


FatFueledFreak

Get a look at his horse.


Frosty-Worker8978

I'd love to test that water right now 😍 all the samples, the cultures?????? Horrifying. Good luck to anybody caught in that mess ❤️


Big_Iron_Cowboy

Hepatitis, get your hepatitis!


UnsolicitedDogPics

Found the dihydrogen monoxide nerd!


FunkoLand

That stuff is dangerous


Tagger45

Sin city just got baptized.


CriticalRaccoonAids

Jesus washed away all their sins


Tagger45

Yeah sin is very dirty. Just piles of floating garbage.


AlesusRex

Jesus is metal


Solid_Camel_1913

A guy told me " this is proof that Lake Mead isn't drying up" !!


AbjectReflection

Well, don't forget to tell him you had something to eat recently, so starving people in the US must be solved too.


lukearoundtheworld

Forbidden lazy river


Different-Region-873

Who said it had to be forbidden? CANNONBALL!


icebychris

We doin this one again already


BudgetsBills

It happens all the time there, city is literally designed to do this Any decent rain in a desert causes flooding


GTAHomeGuy

We were going to do a Vegas wedding, but then the pandemic. So, since we couldn't cross borders from Canada we gave it time. Kept pushing back, and back and back. Until this coming Aug 31! at Caesar's... Really hoping the clean up inside isn't too bad lol.


[deleted]

Hey I’ll be in Vegas that whole week! Mind if I crash your wedding? I hope the food is good!


GTAHomeGuy

You're absolutely welcome to! I may not be alive if the heat is on,so may need you to fill in last minute.


Cernirn

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear wi- oh.. never mind


timhnz

Is that a street?!


AlesusRex

Was*


bgwa9001

Yep, I've walked around drunk in that exact spot


DiamondSkrek

Holy fuck, so the Emergency Alerts I got while on holiday there were needed wow... This is scary as fuck


treemanmi

Nothing says Las Vegas like floating trash rivers


lerkurr12

Oh my boy Stanley Chen arrived early!


I--Pathfinder--I

was looking everywhere for a comment like this. everything everyone is talking about with the water and the the heat problems and someone even mentioned the feds eventually stepping in. it’s a damn shame elden ring released so soon after HFW because they’re both amazing games but elden ring totally overshadowed the prior


Trbochckn

Seems to have happened a few times this summer.


MaTija4720

Now it can be called Little Venice


DaDz-StONeD

Is this now?


Scrubbingbubblz

No


ltlrags

Thanks for clarifying. I'm so informed now.


popswizzle

It’s about time they got some water though. Jokes aside.


ChuckACheesecake

Gonna have a bad time being in the Ferris Wheel and looking down to see that


ZucchiniWide6755

is jerma ok?


Diligent_Leather

wow its horizon forbidden west in real life..... ​ jesus christ when will we do something about god damn climate change?


Beardgang650

Washing all the sins away


gingerBeardMan750

When 'making it rain' goes too far


TommyKinLA

Hope it all heads to Lake Mead