A rare storm hit downtown Las Vegas Thursday night, prompting flood warnings. Shocking videos have emerged on social media showing water pouring through the roofs of a casino and cars battling through floodwaters near a city center landmark. A video posted on Twitter showed cars struggling through flooded streets near the Strat Hotel in downtown Las Vegas: David Charns, a reporter at Las Vegas news outlet 8News Now, posted a clip on Twitter that showed streams of water flowing through a screen at Circa Resort and Casino: Another Vegas-based Twitter page uploaded a video of what appeared to be a dark light show, which may have been blacked out by the storm: The storm also prompted the city of Las Vegas to issue a flood warning. As many as 7,300 people were without power due to the storm, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The Clark County Regional Flood Control District also issued a warning Thursday night. “Water depths in Las Vegas Wash and Flamingo Wash near Nellis continue to rise,” he tweeted. “Stay out of flood channels and let them do their job tonight. #befloodsafe #wateralwayswins.” A man in Vegas on vacation said he took this video of water running through the parking garage of the Linq Hotel: Thursday was the second straight night of storms in Sin City, and the forecast shows that even more rain is possible on Friday. Las Vegas is known to be one of the driest major cities in the US and has a dry climate year round. The city typically gets 4 inches of rain annually, but the National Weather Service in Las Vegas said some areas of the city saw more than 1 inch of rain Thursday.
