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Airports, parking lots, and the entire Las Vegas Strip, which houses some of the world’s most famous casinos and hotels, were flooded Thursday night.

Heavy rain filled countless buildings as the city put a flash flood and severe thunderstorm warning in place.

Video footage shared on Twitter shows the streets of Sin City consumed with floodwater. Other videos showed downtown streets turning into small rivers and water pouring into casinos.

There are no injuries reported at this time, Las Vegas Fire Information Officer Tim Szymanski confirmed to The Post.

Other videos posted on social media showed the inside of Circa sportsbook full of floodwater soaking the carpet.

Another clip shared online shows water pouring through a hole in the ceiling of Planet Hollywood Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard. Staffers can be seen recording the chaotic scenes on their cellphones.

The iconic Caesar’s Palace was also affected by floodwater, as a video posted online showed the ceiling unable to contain the water, which poured onto the carpets.

The Post has reached out to Planet Hollywood and Caesar’s Palace for comment, while Circa sportsbook declined to comment.

Alexander Wolf, a Las Vegas resident, told The Post he saw “curtains” of rainfall outside his window.

“Lightning was nearly constant, and the power went out several times,” he told The Post. “Electric surges set the fire alarms of several buildings off, causing fire responders to have to head out into the storm to respond to them.”

Simon Jowitt, an economic geologist and professor at the University of Las Vegas, told The Post that while flash floods don’t happen too often, Nevadans do anticipate monsoon season from July to September.

“We’ve got good drainage systems but sometimes the water just overloads them,” Jowitt, who hails from Las Vegas, told The Post. “It can also be dangerous for homeless people who sometimes live in the drainage systems for shelter.”

“The other thing is that we don’t often get rain so it’s hard to check whether roofs and the like are actually waterproof; probably what has happened in the casinos tonight,” he added.

“These rains don’t happen that often, but we’ve had a few days in a row now.”

Elsewhere, local airports are experiencing severe delays as a result of the flood.

“My flight has been delayed an hour so far and maybe more,” Shondra Kayd, who is experiencing severe delays with her outgoing flight to Toronto, Canada, told The Post. “A lot of planes had to land at different airports.”

Earlier on Thursday, Harry Reid International Airport departure delays were averaging 50 minutes. Planes scheduled to fly to Las Vegas were being held at their starting airports until at least 11 p.m., according to FlightAware.com.





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A little carried away with the extent of the "consumed with water" perspective. It rained a lot in a short period of time. That causes very temporary street flooding due to the water channels being back up. Once in a while a homeless person also clogs up the canals since many live there.
The Linq garage floods all of the time which makes for good video. Water leaking into the casinos probably is a reflection of lack of spending on facility infrastructure since the casinos have only made over $1 billion dollars for 16 months in a row.
Was up early and on the strip this AM and it was hard to tell it rained last night. They call it "monsoon season" here and we are grateful for the desert rain and hoping for more tonight.
 

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Hope Lake Mead got some of that runoff
 

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There's always RENO (y)
 

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Las Vegas braces for 4th straight night of severe thunderstorms​



Las Vegas braced for its fourth straight night of monsoonal wind and rain on Saturday after severe thunderstorms and heavy gusts pummeled the region Thursday and Friday, meteorologists said.

Storms consumed casinos, airports and parking lots Thursday night and continued again on Friday night when at least 16,000 people suffered power outages, the Review-Journal reported.

Officials at Nellis Air Force Base reported winds of 54 mph on Friday, according to the report.

Fox Weather Meteorologist Seth Darling said “isolated thunderstorms” like the one that pummeled the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday are possible again after 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.

Video posted online showed water pouring through the ceiling onto the carpet at the iconic Caesar’s Palace casino.

The Strip saw 71 mph winds when a storm “collapsed” directly overheard, Darling said. A storm that bad is not likely on Saturday, but not impossible, he said.

Vegas usually sees just 4 inches of rain in an entire year. It will see around 1 to 2 inches before the weather clears up Monday morning, Darling said, but “isolated thunderstorms” could still wreak havoc.

“The chance isn’t zero” for a repeat of Thursday’s chaos, he said. “You do have the potential for stronger gusts if a thunderstorm were to collapse right on the Strip, like it did a few days ago.”

The City of Las Vegas posted on Twitter that the flooding “generally disappears quickly.”

“It’s monsoon season which brings thunderstorms and can lead to flash flooding that, while severe, generally disappears quickly,” the post said.



 

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Las Vegas slammed with more flash floods as iconic strip, casinos under water again​

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Las Vegas was slammed with another wave of torrential flash floods just two weeks after hotels and casinos were consumed with floodwater.

The city’s entire Strip suffered major water damage on Thursday night as videos shared on social media showed casinos turning into rain gutters.

The National Weather Service for Las Vegas issued a flash flood warning as well as a flood advisory until 12:15 a.m. Friday as water flooded some of the city’s most iconic buildings.

Video footage shows Caesar’s Palace struggling to deal with the heavy downpour as floodwater could be seen pouring onto diners at the hotel’s indoor restaurant.

Planet Hollywood also suffered some major water damage from the flash floods, as video footage shows the building filling up with water and soaking the carpet.

“Never have I seen rain this torrential like I saw this evening,” Richard Henderson, who hails from Vancouver, Canada, told The Post. “The rain was so heavy that you could barely see the Flamingo across the street.”

The massive flooding has also caused the city to suffer major power outages as over 17,000 NV Energy customers were left without power, 8NewsNow reports.

Henderson, who witnessed the floods in Caesar’s Palace, said Sports Book employees had cordoned off an area inside “with a makeshift barrier of soaking wet slot machine chairs.”

“A quick glance to the ceiling and we were shocked to see water pouring out of every sprinkler head and other spots,” he told The Post.

“The sheer amount of water made one of my friends very nervous – she was very concerned about the possibility of more water coming in or a partial ceiling collapse.”

“The lightning strikes were intense. I’ve never seen anything quite like it in Vegas,” he added.


Local resident Sean Sable said it’s the most rain he’s seen in his six years living in Vegas.

Sable said he saw water “pouring in” during a quick stop to Planet Hollywood.

But the rain isn’t going away just yet.

“We expect the rain to go ahead through the weekend,” National Weather Service Las Vegas lead Forecaster Chris Outler told The Post.

“There are daily chances. Right now the rain has tapered off across the valley but just about every day, especially in the afternoon and evening hours, we have about 30% chances for Las Vegas.”

The Post has reached out to NV Energy and Planet Hollywood for comment, while Caesar’s Palace declined to comment.

The flood is also causing some travel chaos at Harry Reid International airport.

Passengers are being forced to endure departure delays averaging 1 hour 34 minutes, as well as over an hour of delays for arrivals, according to FlightAware.com.

Meanwhile, on the roads, drivers came to a complete stop as roads became blocked by floodwater and cordoned off by cops.

Just two weeks ago, the city was hit with major flooding that caused damage to many hotels and casinos.

Alexander Wolf, a Las Vegas resident, told The Post he saw “curtains” of rainfall outside his window.

“Lightning was nearly constant, and the power went out several times,” he told The Post. “Electric surges set the fire alarms of several buildings off, causing fire responders to have to head out into the storm to respond to them.”



 

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