The Las Vegas Strip was lit up with more than neon lights this week.
The summer monsoon season, considered the worst in a decade, lit up the skies with intense lightning strikes, and thunderstorms flooded the streets, including on the famous Las Vegas Strip, where leaking ceilings stopped blackjack games in a Las Vegas casino.Flash floods swept the strip for the second time in weeks early Friday, causing two deaths, flooding of casinos and parking garages.
The weather brought not only inconvenience. It brought tragedy, as a man’s body was found on Friday by workers searching through a flood channel near the resort area. Another man was pulled out by firefighters from the floodwaters, but died around midnight.
Water also inundated a parking structure flood channel at the Linq Hotel and High Roller observation wheel, and flood water leaked onto the gaming tables at the Planet Hollywood Resort.
“I’m not sure if it’s raining more inside @PHVegas or outside,” wrote one person on Twitter, along with video from the resort.
No other injuries were reported.
Meteorologist Brian Planz reported that about 1.25 inches of rain fell overnight in some areas west of the Las Vegas Strip and near the city of Kingman in northwest Arizona.
“That makes this the wettest monsoon season in ten years,” the weather service tweeted.
A similar severe storm hit Las Vegas on July 28.
