Snow Melt

It rained in Las Vegas

I stood looking out my living room window. The rain came down in sheets. The water flowed down Bracken Ave. toward Eastern Ave. I watched the curb deep water flowing. I watched trash like sail boats in the ocean moving east.

It rained in Las Vegas. It flooded in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas wash is full of water. Las Vegas streets are full of water with cars stalled and their drivers wondering what happened, their drivers wondering how they could have misjudged the depth of the water. Perhaps now they will believe the billboards that warn drivers not to drive through floodwaters.

This is Las Vegas and people are moving in everyday. The floodwaters will come again because we live in a valley we live in a bowl. When it heavy rains come the valley floods. When the valley floods cars and people become stranded in high water.

On the bright side, this is the last of the monsoonal moisture. We may not get any more rain, at least not this much for the rest of the year. However, considering the weird weather that we had dealt with in 2012 one never knows for sure.