RAIN! RAIN! RAIN! in Las Vegas! It's COOLER now! YIPPIE!

[TankLV]

I love "Monsoon Season"!!!

And, best of all, the roof repair and re-roofing that I've been SLOWLY working on by myself for the past year DOESN'T LEAK ANYMORE!!!!

I'm so damn happy and RELIEVED!!!!

Can't wait to FINISH installing the roofing tiles!!!

[BlooInBloo]

1. mmm...... roofing in the Vegas summer..... Fun!

[MADem]

2. Well, congratulations! nt

[Wiley50]

3. Oh Fuck! I Remember Monsoon in Las Vegas > Flood City!

anywhere else they build bridges over what is only a dip in the road in Las vegas.

i remember wandering into bob Stupak's Vegas world one Friday PM
just to cash my paycheck and lose half of it
(as was usual during the 8 months i lived there in my late '20's)

walked out to find water EVERYWHERE!
halfway up the door of my truck in the parking lot

had to take a cab home

[TankLV]

6. Well - actually - the worst problems have been solved...

The "Flood Control District" has done an amazing job in the past ten years - now only some outlying roads get flooded - mainly where there is new construction...

Desert Inn and Bonneville and Charleston underpass flooding is only a memory now...

[Nevernose]

7. Most of that's fixed

At least on the Strip and in the rich neighborhoods. And VegasWorld is no more. It's The Stratosphere Tower now, which is actually kind of neat, unless your best friend is a civil engineer who swears that he would rather spelunk a 150 year old abandoned mine than ride to the top of the Strat because of the safety issues...

[SeattleGirl]

9. I was in Vegas in March a couple of years ago, and the monsoons hit

then too. Rained 5 of the 6 days I was there. There was a RIVER running through the driveway beneath my hotel window. First time I'd ever been in Vegas when it rained THAT much. :wow:

[Nevernose]

4. It's still 102, and I just paid a guy

A lot of money to re-roof my house (because I don't know how). And thank god I did it so recently -- I know what it's like to have a leaky roof. ;)

And I still say we should have a Vegas DU get-together!

[TankLV]

5. And I agree...

[orleans]

8. i'm really happy for you.

(do you collect or "harvest" the rain in containers so you can use it to water lawn/flowers/trees later? i just read about doing that in some article or book i was reading lately--it sounds like a good idea. i'm thinking about doing it. i also read that if you cover your swimming pool it really cuts down on evaporation.)

[TankLV]

11. Don't have a garden or lawn anymore - turned off the water a few years back...

Plan to get that fake grass for the back yard - comes in all kinds of textures and is dog proof, too...

Only have a large spa that is also currently dry for the past two years - got a cover for that, tho...but I leave it open for the puppies - the goldens just LIVE in it during the summer...not going to turn is on again until the roof is finished - too many debris and all...

Plan to turn the front yard into the desert landscaping with interesting arrangements of desert plants - BUT NOT UNTIL I FINISH THE DAMN ROOF - it's really exasperating...

Even if I could collect what little rain we did get - it would soon evaporate in a few months. We haven't had rain for over a year now - other than some sprinkles in a few places that hardly left a trace - the "drought" is still continuing - Lake Mead is down 50% or so, and any water is going first to fill Lake Powell...but even tho we've grown by about 7,000 persons each month, our water usage has actually DROPPED by about 40% during that time!

[orleans]

13. well then, i hope you're outside dancing in the raindrops now! (smile!) n/t

[Bluebear]

10. Did you see the imperial palace?

http://www.vegasrex.com/

[TankLV]

12. Wow - I love that guy's posts!

I wonder if he is a DU'r!

Didn't see any of that during this last go-around with the rain.

But I'm not surprised at the Imperial Palace - it hasn't been "flood-proofed" yet and is in one of the lowest places on the Strip - so there's almost no place underground to route the water until they build something else there...

But that is still one of the only places to left to flood - not like what happened on my street and along Boulder Highway a few years back when the waters pushed a trailer park into the wash, and people were actually swept under their cars and almost into a storm culvert and stripped NAKED! I kid you not...

Don't see that happening anymore.

Our firm is doing the "Trump" tower and a couple of the other projects noted there (Yes, Trump is a real ASSHOLE! - actually wanted us to do work for him for "free" because we had the "privilege" of saying he was our client - we told him to stick his theory on compensation up his flabby ass - and we actually got paid! But it was like sucking water out of a rock in the desert...)