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User Name. Smilies are On. Thread Tools. Send a private message to michelle Find More Posts by michelle Find Threads Started by michelle Posts: 18, Send a private message to Videopro. Just cause it's a desert doesn't mean floods are not a problem to be considered in casino design.. Find More Posts by trambopoline. Suffering losses is kind of non-sense, always a chance an event is canceled. Remember Me? The world is a random place. First some clarification to OP. Originally Posted by jcorb. Water runs down hill, not that hard to figure out. One would think in this day and age big business could design and build a resort that directs storm runoff away from the electrical room. Maybe they should have consulted with someone from Persia. Maybe they were playing poker online that day. All times are GMT The time now is PM. Find Threads Started by gobbo. Send a private message to trambopoline. Sounds like they don't have much in the way of backup systems. Hold the engineering company that designed and built the resort accountable. Send a private message to EastCoastBalla. Find Threads Started by trambopoline. Yeah, not much they can do here imo. I'm sure they considered none of these things when building the resort. Mark Forums Read. Originally Posted by Loctus. You ain't seen nothin' until you've seen an Arizona sand storm approaching! It has rained there before, this isn't the first monsoon season they've been open, so it wasn't an issue in the past. Find More Posts by jcorb. Anyone who has ever been in a flood situation should be able to relate to the decision Re: Arizona State Poker Championship canceling the event in progress because of flooding. I'm wondering if they really had to cancel, maybe push it back a week? Find Threads Started by bgrif. If you're in a car you better go the other way fast! Seems like a drastic outcome. Casino was evacuated around 2am Saturday morning.

User Name Remember Me? Originally Posted by persianpunisher. Originally Posted by EastCoastBalla. Baseball games get rained out, etc. Find Threads Started by Videopro. Computer Technical Help Programming.

There's a reason why force majeur is a valid legal reason for canceling just about anything. I've lived south of Phoenix since Average rainfall is " per year 2.

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Page 1 of 2. Hold the tribal board accountable for hiring them. Supposedly they got 1 flight complete and were in the middle of the 2nd flight when the weather was so bad they stopped the tournament and then after rescheduling over and over a decision was made to cancel the event, pay people out from day 1a according to icm while lots of people who booked flights and hotels and stuff had to suffer losses. Find More Posts by gobbo. Arizona State Poker Championship canceling the event in progress because of flooding. Re: Anyone here about the Arizona State Poker Championship canceling the event in progress beca Can't figure out to edit the title but I wanted it to say it was canceled because of some flooding. I'm not defending them, just pointing it out. I've watched one approach from a hotel room several stories up in Phoenix and it was kind of scary not knowing what was going to happen. It happens with every type of event in the world. Find More Posts by bgrif. Re: Anyone here about the Arizona State Poker Championship canceling the event in progress beca That's just life, man. Posts: 15, Send a private message to gobbo. Summer storms are trackable and predictable for over years. I thought that was a phenomena only seen in the Sahara or a far off desert. Not an issue unless it happens over and over and affects a ton of people time and time again and the cancellation is for nefarious reasons. Looks like lots of people unhappy. I'm talking a wall of sand , feet high and miles across coming right at you. Can't figure out to edit the title but I wanted it to say it was canceled because of some flooding. Originally Posted by Gzesh. That and power going out. View Public Profile. Forum Rules. Last edited by Gzesh; at PM. I hope never to encounter that again and I was totally unaware that it could happen here in the USA. Which is now Iran, which isn't exactly a model first world country. Fortunately, the hotel windows were strong enough to withstand the blast and in about fifteen minutes it had passed over. BB code is On. There's nothing that can be done about it. That's just life, man. News, Views, and Gossip For poker news, views, and gossip. They should've reached out to you for your sage advice. They went through the worst monsoon in recorded history without this happening. So it was more of a loss of power issue due to flooding instead of a flooding issue. Day 1b was scheduled to start at 9am on Saturday morning, so no flights were interrupted in the middle of play. Send a private message to jcorb. You definitely did not want to be out on the street in that thing! I actually quit a juicy online session the night before to watch the storm on my balcony. Looked and felt like the apocalypse was coming, eerily cool. The Inca's that built Machu Picchu years ago did it is such a way that torrential rains were diverted away from the main structures. Day 1a Friday was complete. But sure you guys are probably smarter than teams of architects and engineers. Dog bites man is not a story. I was wrong! This time was obviously a freak accident. If so, maybe their electrical system would not have been flooded. Find More Posts by Videopro. I am pretty sure the actual casino wasn't flooded, but the area where they kept their power generators either at ground level or underground.