Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Hoover Dam

Looking at bottom of dam


Hoover Dam
Intake towers from Lake Mead




Yesterday was a travel day and we landed in Boulder City, Nevada.  Checked out one of the Seven Wonders of the World today.  The Hoover Dam is another amazing example of engineering and hard work done for the good of mankind. This  afternoon we had a severe thunderstorm which dropped 2 inches of rain on the city of Las Vegas in less than an hour.  Las Vegas is in a valley surrounded by mountains so there was serious  flash flooding.   Luckily, we are up high so didn't have to worry about that but weren't able to go to the "strip" tonight as planned.  Maybe tomorrow!

We will drive over bridge in background
Rainbow after the thunderstorm

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