Flash Flooding and Lightning on the Las Vegas Strip, 8/11/2022 

That parking building is notorious for flooding that way, and invariably is shown whenever there's heavy rain in Las Vegas. I was grateful to see a few other scenes of the rain instead of just that same locations again.

I love the irony of the signs "Exit" & "Stop" yet the water just goes wherever it wants... Mother Nature reigns supreme ❤️ Thank you for sharing the majesty of nature❤️💎❤️

Never thought I'd see this much water flow through Vegas like this. That's crazy.

Aww memories. I worked at the Imperial Palace which is now The Linq 25 yrs ago. The story from the old school staff was that the owner of the Imperial Palace, Ralph Englested was an engineer, among other things😒. Anyway the IP is very close to a flood wash (whatever it's called), so naturally you have to be crazy to build literally on top of an area where collected flood water will tear through your property. The Harrah's and Flamingo are close, but the IP (Now Linq) is in the middle. I guess he did engineering calculation and figured it out. Worked at IP for about 7rs. The amt of flood water was different sometimes hmm not bad, but sometimes Neptune was f'king pissed. The employee parking was at the lot across from the garage parking. When it flooded we couldn't just walk to our cars. We had to go through Harrah's, upstairs, across a pathway (some how Harrah's and Linq was connected via their parking.), back down again, and finally to our cars. We didn't get write ups for being late😅. Yes a few people have died when I worked there. Likely a tourist who didn't want to do an Amazing Race to get to the other side. That was long. I ♥️ telling stories.

I'm from MN and moved to Vegas for a couple years. Worked in a restaurant in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. Being from MN I'm used to all kinds of crazy weather. Bit when it rains in Vegas, it POURS. It would look like a tornado came through anf roads would get so slick and crap would wash down from the mountains into the streets. I never experienced this level of rain while I lived there. But so crazy to see. Still think of Vegas as my second home and have many friends that still there.

This is so wild. I lived in Vegas for seven years and i remembered some of the rains we got in the summer but nothing like this

Just need a thousand more of these and Lake Mead will be back to normal...

Southwest US: "We desperately need water!" Mama Nature: "Bet."

This is amazing footage

I sure hope this water makes it's way to the lake!!

Most of the video of the parking garage is of the Limq (formerly the Quad, formerly the I P, originally the Imperial Palace). It is built over the Flamingo Wash, and whenever Las Vegas gets heavy rains and the wash gets blocked with debris, the water will rush through like that. Generally give it an hour or two and the water will be gone.

Would be nice all the water run to Hover Dam. Everytime I visit there the water level is getting lower.

Resort fees just went up do to the new lazy river

Wouldn't it make sense if long time ago where there's floods there once was a river ?

Did you see the guy in the water at 2:29?😳😲😯😮

Thanks to God and the nature that we have water, water it's life

I feel bad for all the homeless that lives under Vegas....

FINALLY RAIN FOR THE DRY STATES WE IN NEVADA, TEXAS, ARIZONA , CALI THANK YOU GOD

Wow! I sat out on my balconey and watched the light show. Anxious to get out to Red Rock Canyon after work and hike to the myriad of creeks and waterfalls. Be nice to see and hear the water flowing.

Carpets finally getting cleaned!

Stay safe. 🌕

Crazy, we just left Vegas around 12 pm heading to Utah and it was sunny.

Is this really from August 11th? Or are these footages from end of July 2022

Do the people that live in the sewers there get any type of warning or advanced notice of rain? I've seen documentaries about all of the people who live in the sewer tunnels under Vegas. Even a 0.25" rain can flood the sewers and kill people down there. Hope everyone is safe.

Hope all the underground people got out safely

I lived there for 12 years and saw some extreme weather, lived near Koval and Tropicana and man remember pulling cars out when i worked at Lexus, it was rough. Henderson was severely damaged each time before they remodeled sunset road towards the casino.

the Flamingo Wash lives!!!

Has the rain made it extremely humid? I was in Vegas 3 weeks ago and it was about 115°.

THANKS! SHARED THIS OUT! 1:40 PM EST.

I checked out of linq hours before it started to rain. I literally walked in this parking lot to catch my Uber!! Crazy crazy

I was just here back in May of this year! This exact same spot wow!

wow nice water flow

OMG I wish I was in Vegas right now to witness this beautiful weather this gorgeous rain and just just love on the rain just love on it

Keep it coming baby

We needed it

Actually, 5 lights at the start of the video dancing around, vanishing at the 8th second and then 4 showing up again at the 12th. They are so far out, fast moving, we don't have any technology like that to fly back and forth. The camera shooting this is completely steady and still, so, those dancing lights do belong to something in the skies.

Whoa...from RENO!

Flooding at the old Imperial Palace, same as when I worked there. Actually, worse in the old days.

Who designed the drainage at the Linq? Isn't storm drainage not supposed to flow through your property?

This is tough for the many thousands of Vegas residents who live beneath the city in the canal system.

did any of the water make it to lake mead?

' wow beautifully floody on the desert in las vegas... big thank to the cloudy pour heavy thick rainy rainy on the dry desert sand / great floody... keep continue more rainy rainy again and flood soon allday - allnight - everyday - everynight... many animals / plants needs that water

Why can't we capture this water to help with the drought

is this the new log ride? is it included with the resort fee

Everyone living in those tunnels everything they have is washed away

It's crazy all that water and not one drop in my neighborhood

It happened a thousand times before Vegas was built

Wow we were there a week ago the whole time we were getting warnings in our phone but not rain at all it was hot

I’m coming to vegas for 6nts on Friday. Is there likely to be much noticeable damage from these floods ?

Do the thousands of bicycles in the underground drainage spaces clog up the drains and cause flooding? Plus all the other debris and trash, mattresses etc. No where for the water to go as it was designed expressly for this purpose.

My family and I went to Vegas this past week, seems like we came right after a major flash flood and left right before another one! Crazy

GLAD I LEFT VEGAS 8/8 ONLY 6 DAYS AGO! WAS A SUNNY WEEK!

Hello... It was a Sin City... BUT... Now it's a Holy City. Getting clean by the Holy Spirit... Amen..

Is that parking lot built on an old, dry riverbed?

Great way to clean out the sidewalks, they were getting really dirty.

Flushing the world's largest commode

The next story you'll hear is that Lake Mead is full again.

At 2:30, there is a person at the top right being swept away by the flood waters as they flail their arms!!!!

In all my 59 yrs on this earth I never knew Las Vegas flooded like this.

So … Can someone tell me why this happens in Vegas ?

what are those 4 lights in the sky from 12th to 19th second? Another Alien Activity? They are far more advanced than us and probably can control the weather phenomenon as well

I hope the reservoirs fill up!

Good. They need water.

Which hotel is it? I guess the drought is over.

SURFS UP!

I thought that Las Vegas spent hundreds of millions of dollars for an underground tunnel system to prevent this kind of flooding. Doesn't seem to be working 😕

The stop sign tried his best

Pretty sure this is from end of July, as it has been sunny and clear skies the last few days. * I stand corrected amazing how swift mother nature sweeps in, clear skies to this.

So..... So many people living under those streets. You know they never saw it coming... Heartbreaking.

We were in Vegas two weeks ago and I was hoping it would do this when we were there. It started to on our drive in and then stopped. I was a little disappointed.

This same spot has been flooding for years, you'd think the city would have figured it out by now....think again!

Well some people asked for a miracle to help fill Lake Mead! What happens to everyone if the Lake ever dries completely? I hope it keeps raining as to fill it up.

2:23 that is literally the entrance to 1000 homeless peoples homes underneath the city. Crazy hopefully they all recovered.

Underground parking is inherently prone to flooding. Given this knowledge, it is foreseeable that such an event would and could happen. What did the architect and contractors (and City that approved and issued 'permits') do about it? How was 'drainage' addressed? Point is: Somebody was negligent. How did the Casino deal with the 'parked cars' down there? Everybody ordered to higher ground? Hope every vehicle owner has 'Comprehensive Coverage' on their auto insurance policy. That's the applicable coverage for 'flood damage'. Without it, you're on your own.

Wow!

0:49 - NOT actually flood waters , NEW & Amazing ride called , 'See if your can dodge concrete pilasters!", no FEE!, up graded parking, available.

Well it should help lake mead fill back up if they have proper drainage

How's Musk's hyper-loop working out? Hydro-loop.

Wow!😳

if that was the linq .. yep seen it like that before

Holy crap

Over 2 billion dollars (each) were spent on flood catchment basins around the valley and we're still left with this scene when the heavy rains come.......what a joke!!!!!

Where is this at

All this water better be going to Lake Las Vegas and Lake mead!🤨

Hopefully this rain runs off to reservoirs to provide relief from the drought.

I went up on the replica Eiffel Tower a few years ago, and as soon as my friends and I got off the elevator, lightning was visible in the far distance. The tower was immediately closed, but I got to stay up a bit longer because the elevator filled up and I had to wait for it to return. There was no storm or rain on Las Vegas that night but any lightning at all is enough of a warning, obviously, for this particular structure to shut down.

I fly out next Thursday for Las Vegas ... 😐

On a couple weeks,they be complaining of the heat again and no rain

Nature doing what nature does

Since it's Vegas, I'm honestly surprised that no one is in a barrel or something riding it out on a bet

*Update:* Lake Mead instantly FULL..!

Mother Nature has finally had it.

Lake Mead needs refilled

How much rain did Vegas GET?!

Good thing this happened on a Thursday out there

Bring that rain to cen cal!

At 2:30 at the top right, you can see a person flayling their arms as they are swept downstream.

I can just picture a kayaker going through the parking garage.

That'll fill up Lake Mead hopefully

i wish we could get some rain