for those local alerts. they ve already been this evacuation orders issued for vulnerable communities, as well as voluntary evacuation warnings. associate administrator in offices a response recovery, thank you so much, we wish you the best of luck. bring in dave ward on the ground in las vegas, currently under a high wind warning and flood watch. it is really interesting, yasmin, to be here. it s important to articulate to people that might be from much rainier parts of the world where the ground is much more likely to soak up that water. it is very different here in las vegas. the place you re seeing behind me is a parking garage that had the bad fortune to be at the drainage point off of the mountains. there is already an inch of rain in the mountains that has caused what is essentially an enormous bowl, the las vegas valley, draining to this point. las vegas officials have put in extraordinary amounts of drainage. you can see a storm drain system that is pouring all of
what are the expectations there, what are you seeing, what are the preparations in place for what is to come? it s really interesting to be here. it s important to try to articulate to people who may be from rainier parts of the world where the grounds much more likely to soak up the water. it s very different here in las vegas. the place you re seeing behind me is a parking garage that has at the drainage point off of the mound. there s already about an inch of rain in the mount which causes what is essentially an enormous the las vegas valley to drain into this point. las vegas officials, good news, have put in extraordinary amounts of drainage. you can see a storm drain system that is pouring all over this down underneath about a ten blocked distance. it doesn t wind up on the latest strip as it did in 1989, 2012, this is a tremendous impairment the problem of course is that because this is not a permeable