Tuesday January 9th 2018

Today was the second rainy day in Las Vegas after one hundred and sixteen days without rain. Yesterday was the warm up event. Today was the main event. Over an inch and half of rain fell in the valley.

View down the RV park road during the mid day let up. Note all of the standing water.

Picture of the heavy rain during the afternoon session.  Picture taken out my window. 

The heavy rain started around five or six this morning. It continued raining hard until nine thirty or ten. We got a brief reprieve during the late morning, but it started up strong again shortly afternoon. I was surprised to see the sun breaking through on the western horizon shortly before sunset. Taking advantage of the let up, I took a walk around the RV park. It was still raining lightly, but there was a rainbow to the northeast and a nice setting sun to the west.

Sunset to the west.

Rainbow to the northeast.

Once again I stayed at home. There weren’t as many accidents reported today. Instead, the news outlets were reporting street flooding and rescues from flooded washes. Even the flat roads in the RV park had a lot of standing water. During my late afternoon walk I had to skirt around several two or three inch deep puddles. The smaller ones I had to walk through. The sun is forecast to return tomorrow along with low sixties temperatures. Hopefully, the sun will help motivate me to get active.