"People don't realize just a few inches of rain can really cause some damage," said Kim Becker, a Henderson city spokeswoman. Adair called the 2-inch hail that fell in southwestern neighborhoods near the 215 Beltway the most unusual element of the storm. Water gushed through some 600 miles of channels, including choke points near the Linq observation wheel on the Strip. The woman was believed to have suffered a heart attack while she and two other people were rescued Thursday from rushing water near the Hard Rock Casino Hotel east of the Las Vegas Strip, Deputy Clark County Fire Chief Jeff Buchanan said. Monsoon-style summer storms aren't unusual in the desert around Las Vegas, where one or two storms can go a long way toward filling rain gauges that average only 4.19 inches of rainfall a year.

Source: ABC News July 01, 2016 09:33 UTC