THUNDERSTORMS DELAY FLIGHTS, SNARL TRAFFIC IN VEGAS AREA, FLOOD HOMES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
(AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)
Las Vegas, Nev. - Intense thunderstorms drenched parts of the Southwest on Tuesday, delaying flights and stranding motorists in the Las Vegas area and flooding two mobile home parks in Southern California.
East of downtown Las Vegas, television news video showed yellow school buses inching slowly along swamped roads in some neighbours and muddy brown water up to the lower window sills of stucco homes in others.
A Twitter photo showed dozens of cars submerged in water up to their headlights in a parking lot outside a University of Nevada, Las Vegas sports arena.
The National Weather Service issued severe thunderstorm and flash-flood warnings before and after almost an inch of rain was reported at McCarran International Airport just before 2 p.m.
Departures were postponed and arrivals were delayed after the airport ordered a stop on fueling operations during lightning strikes, airport spokeswoman Linda Healey said.
12/09/2012 : Gillian Flaccus / Ken Ritter -- Winnipeg Free Press.
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