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Las Vegas is Closed

Last night T Squirrel took a trip down to see the closed Las Vegas Strip.  There were quite a few other vehicles with passengers doing the same thing, but the traffic was absolutely nowhere near what the traffic would have normally been on a Thursday at 7:00 PM. The first thing he noticed was that while most of the resorts were lit, they were not lit up like they usually would have been, but most were still lit up in some way.  MGM Grand was lit its usual green and the Eiffel Tower at Paris was lit red, white and blue. Still the lack of the usual crowds was quite surreal.  No one was on the pedestrian bridges crossing Las Vegas Blvd, the escalators were empty.  No crowds streaming into the Miracle Mile Shops or out of the Mirage.  With the exception of the LVPD blocking off the entrances to some of the casinos and  a handful of walkers, the LV Strip where an average day could see upwards of 100,000 people was empty. T Squirrel is sure that, in the near future, Las Vegas will op