ARES/RACES Mobilized In Wake Of MassIve Storm And Flooding
Clark County ARES/RACES team members have deployed after being called up by local Emergency Management officials to provide communications support during recovery efforts currently underway in the Moapa Valley, northeast of Las Vegas.
A slow moving storm, which spun off from Hurricane Norbert, dumped nearly 4 inches of rain in 90 minutes onto the town of Moapa. Heavy flooding and mud has closed 47 miles of Interstate 15, stranding motorist and truckers. Pavement has washed away or buckled in many areas. Nevada Department of Transportation officials expect that it will take several days to re-open the highway. Alternate routes have also been made impassible.
At this hour, Clark County ARRL Emergency Coordinator Bill Smith W7HMV is attending the morning briefing and will relay information at it's conclusion.
Nearly 200 tribal members of the Moapa River Reservation are being sheltered. Seventy elementary and high school students were sheltered at the Ute Perkins Elementary School in Moapa, while eighteen more students from the Grant Bowler Elementary School were sheltered in a building at the Clark County Fairgrounds.
Stranded motorists are being cared for at the Hughes Middle School in Mesquite, Nevada on the Arizona border.
ARES personnel are staffing at the Emergency Operations Center in Las Vegas, as well as the Clark County Mobile Communications Vehicle on the scene.
A slow moving storm, which spun off from Hurricane Norbert, dumped nearly 4 inches of rain in 90 minutes onto the town of Moapa. Heavy flooding and mud has closed 47 miles of Interstate 15, stranding motorist and truckers. Pavement has washed away or buckled in many areas. Nevada Department of Transportation officials expect that it will take several days to re-open the highway. Alternate routes have also been made impassible.
At this hour, Clark County ARRL Emergency Coordinator Bill Smith W7HMV is attending the morning briefing and will relay information at it's conclusion.
Nearly 200 tribal members of the Moapa River Reservation are being sheltered. Seventy elementary and high school students were sheltered at the Ute Perkins Elementary School in Moapa, while eighteen more students from the Grant Bowler Elementary School were sheltered in a building at the Clark County Fairgrounds.
Stranded motorists are being cared for at the Hughes Middle School in Mesquite, Nevada on the Arizona border.
ARES personnel are staffing at the Emergency Operations Center in Las Vegas, as well as the Clark County Mobile Communications Vehicle on the scene.
