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StumblePublished Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | 8:13 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
If a storm pops up today while you're driving, watch out for street flooding.
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Beyond the Sun
Moist, sticky unstable air, combined with triple-digit temperatures, could brew up scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and evening in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
"Possible brief heavy rain may produce isolated flash flooding or urban flooding," the weather service said today in a hazardous weather statement.
The best chances of thunderstorms will be over northern Mohave County, Clark and Lincoln counties and southeast Inyo County, the weather service said.
Today's forecast calls for skies to be partly sunny and temperatures to climb to near 101 degrees today. The chance for precipitation is 20 percent.
Tonight, look for a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11 p.m., with partly cloudy skies and a low around 87 degrees, the weather service said.
Just a reminder,July through mid September is "Munsoon Season" Our time to have hight humidity and violent lightning and thunder storms. Think of outside animals provide an area of protection for them, put yourself in thier shoes ( feet), they need a place to get away and feel safe.
I've lived in the Southern NV. area for over 37 years and have witnessed and heard news reports of loss of property and loss of lives.
My father and I were almost victims of these storms. We were traveling South on Lamb Blvd. in the days when it had dips and rutts and was a narrow two lane road. One of those dips had a measuring stick that If my memory is correct went up 16ft. That piece of roadway was known for swift water flooding. So as we approached, traffic was moving slowly, my dad looked it over and felt it was safe to travel. What neither of us realized was the fast pace and how fast the water level was climbing. We were in a Volkswagon of all things so as we got to the center of the dip we were starting to float and heading right for the oncomming car, my dad was fighting with all of his might, I might add so was the driver that was headed toward us. I will never forget the look on his face, and I'm sure we had the same look on our faces. We actually bumped each other but not hard enough to cause any damage I don't think. We made it up out of harms way and so did the driver that we connected physically with. Unfortunately three cars behind us were not so lucky. They ended up swept down the temporary river. Don't know about there injuries, we only could watch helplessly from the top of the roadway.
We did call for help for them down the road to the next phone booth. pre-cell days)
Be careful! Stay safe !
Don't try it! Its not worth it !
M.K.