Flight delays were averaging 183 minutes. line, and crews from the county Department of Public Works filled the gap with sand, dirt and rock, and put an asphalt patch over it, but the lane will be closed over the weekend as more rain is expected, Welling said.Ī ground stop had been ordered for flights at Harry Reid International Airport until 5:15 p.m. The intersection of Alexander Road and Puebla Street was closed Friday and rainfall from the overnight storm caused an 8-foot-by-10-foot sinkhole to open in the northbound lane of Jones Boulevard and Gunderson Avenue in the Spring Valley area, according to county spokesperson Stacey Welling. A car appeared to be stuck in water at the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard. Parts of eastbound Flamingo Road at northbound Interstate 515, as well as East Cheyenne Avenue at Las Vegas Boulevard North, were closed to traffic, the Nevada Department of Transportation reported.įlood water flows were also reported on South Rainbow Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road and at The Linq Hotel at 3535 Las Vegas Blvd. Rainfall from storms early Friday produced flooding, as much as a foot deep, on streets across all across the valley. The on-going flash flood watch for Saturday and early Sunday covers the recently flood-ravaged Mount Charleston area, but it is hard to know “where the storms end up developing and where the strong ones are - hard to see out that far in advance,” said Stan Czyzyk, a weather service meteorologist in Las Vegas. The southeast side of the valley, including Henderson, east Las Vegas and Sam Boyd Stadium, was also under a flash flood warning Friday. More serious flash flood warnings were announced on Friday afternoon for western Clark County for the Goodsprings-Sandy Valley-Mount Potosi area with heavy rain and winds of 40 mph or stronger forecast for the area, the weather service reported. “Water levels in the Tropicana Detention Basin have continued to rise with the storms today motorists and people are strongly urged to use caution and find alternate routes if possible in the areas surrounding Allegiant Stadium, Tropicana and I-15 to the west to Tropicana and Decatur to the south to Russell and Decatur and Russell and I-15.”Įarlier Friday, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for most of Clark County to last through Saturday night and into early Sunday with storms expected to bring from a quarter-inch to more than 2 inches of rain. Motorists are being urged to find alternative routes because of the high water, the county said in the release. In the southwest valley, water basins were nearly full because of the excessive Friday rainfall, according to a Clark County news release sent late Friday. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) and showers on Friday sent floodwaters onto roads and intersections in the Las Vegas Valley, delaying hundreds of airline flights at the start of the Labor Day weekend and knocking out power to thousands of utility customers. A flash flood warning is in place for most of the Las Vegas Valley. A pedestrian walks down a flooded sidewalk on South Eastern Avenue on Friday, Sept. East Sahara Avenue and South Eastern Avenue is flooded while a pedestrian waits to cross the street on Friday, Sept.
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