I know they did it before climate change was a big issue, but you’d still think someone would have said, “maybe we shouldn’t build a city in the middle of a desert?”
Of course, there’s also Phoenix, Salt Lake City, etc…
Multiple Southwestern cultures thrived and then died out due to climate change. But who’d ask a pesky Injun whether or not that was a good place to build a city?
Most of them were either nomadic and moved between habitable areas between seasons or lived near oasis and other water sources so not really the desert.
It was a railroad town at the start, so really just a “once we get through this desert we’ve made it to California.” And after that it was the Boulder Dam worker town, which is where all the casinos came from
I don’t doubt what you are saying, McCarran isn’t in downtown though. The record setting measurement was made at McCarren so the actual records for that year from the airport are a closer comparison than whatever was happening downtown.
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