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Surrounded by floodwaters, Phil Hicks sticks his head out of the sun roof of his car to make a cell phone call in Las Vegas, Aug. 19, 2003. Hicks was stranded in a parking lot for several hours, waiting for the water to recede after a severe storm swept over the valley, causing major flooding.
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Hesitant to cross the flooded intersection at Gowan Road, motorists stack up on northbound Rancho Drive in Las Vegas, Aug. 19, 2003. Powerful thunderstorms dumped as much as 3 inches of rain on parts of the desert city.
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Milton Evangelista runs through the rain and hail to his car after coming out of a Las Vegas grocery store, Aug. 19, 2003.
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An unidentified man looks over a block wall into a flooded home, Aug. 19, 2003, in northwest Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas residents cross a flooded street, Aug. 19, 2003, in northwest Las Vegas.
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Members of the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Department are rescued from a fire truck caught in floodwaters, Aug. 19, 2003.
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Juliette Lopez sits in her car surrounded by floodwaters in Las Vegas, Aug. 19, 2003. The water had picked up her car and carried it a few blocks before it caught on a pole. Lopez made it safely out of the car.
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Pamela Cantwell climbs from her stalled car over a flooded Las Vegas freeway interchange into the car of off-duty police officer John Somaduroff, Aug. 19, 2003.
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Las Vegas firefighters carry two boys across a flooded road in Las Vegas, Aug. 19, 2003. The boys had become stranded in a stalled car and were unhurt in the incident.
