NEVADA FLOODS PROMPT GOVERNOR TO DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 12:25

Traffic passes through a section of Nevada Highway 168 near Glendale. The road and Interstate 15 were damaged by storm the runoff of Monday. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters

Tourists and truckers were told Wednesday to prepare for several more days of disruptive detours around a closed stretch of busy Interstate 15 in southern Nevada that crumbled in chunks during intense flash flooding.

Crews were working to repair the freeway as Governor Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency late Tuesday and dispatched officials to begin estimating the cost of damage after Monday’s storm wiped out swaths of the vital interstate and swamped parts of Clark County and an Indian reservation.

“We hope to have one lane in each direction open by the weekend,” Nevada department of transportation spokeswoman Julie Duewel said.

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