Storm in Vegas Shuts Down Fremont Street Experience, Floods Casino Floors

A freak thunderstorm hit Las Vegas on Thursday, shutting down entertainment attractions and flooding casino floors.

Several news outlets reported that the Fremont Street Experience, the downtown canopy of light, had gone out. Newsweek has video of the darkened structure: www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-flooding-videos-rain-inside-casinos-1729026. Viral videos showed water pouring through a screen at the sportsbook in Circa Resort and Casino (https://www.insider.com/rare-thunderstorm-las-vegas-photos-videos-flooding-casinos-2022-7) USA Today (ftw.usatoday.com/2022/07/las-vegas-monsoon-storm-flooding-sportsbooks-casinos-circa-caesars) showed video of staff members trying to clean up the mess, along with video of water pouring in through the roof of the casino at Caesar's Palace. The website Entrepreneur has video showing a river of water flowing through the Linq parking garage: hwww.entrepreneur.com/article/432376. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that some locations in the area received up to an inch of rain in two hours. That is approximately one-quarter of the rain the city receives annually.

As of now, it is unclear if any of the area's many production houses were affected. The weather remains uncertain, the possibility of additional rain today.