BREAKING: Boulder Dam Closed due to Terrorist Threat

Sierra Times ^ | May 30, 2002 | Sierra Times

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A Sierra Times Daily News Alert Post
 
Boulder Dam Closed due to Terrorist Threat
A Sierra Times Special Report

BOULDER DAM (14:30 Pacific Time) - The Sierra Times has confirmed with both the Nevada and Arizona Highway Patrol that
Boulder Dam (U.S. 93) was abruptly closed as of 12:30 Pacific Time due to a 'terrorist threat'. Highway authorities are
giving no estimated time as to when the dam will be re-opened.

Police say that a suspicious object was found in a lot on the Arizona side.

All traffic between Phoenix and Las Vegas must use the Laughlin Nevada detour north for Kingman for northbound traffic,
and south of Railroad Pass for southbound traffic
The visitors center at Hoover Dam is closed at this time. Officials say U.S. Highway 93 over Hoover Dam will be closed
until further notice.

Don't worry. If you don't live in the areas of Southern Nevada, Southern California, Phoenix, Tucson, or Flagstaff, this
report doesn't affect you.

Stay tuned to Sierra Times for more on this story...

This has been a Sierra Times Special Report.

[Joe Hadenuf]

This is getting pathetic. Time to shut the doors and find out who in the house. One of these days, one of these threats are going to become reality.

[caa26]

Its probably nothing, all you need to do now is leave an unmarked package on a bridge, dam or building and the bomb squad gets called in.

[Nouge]

I was just at the Hover Damn this weekend, they were stopping and going through all RV's and trailers, but all cars were just waived through.

[Hank Hill]

I like propane. Do you like propane? MMMM propane

[Tennessee_Bob]

Boulder Dam or Hoover Dam? Which is it????

heh heh heh

[Jagdgewehr]

No "Hard Hat" tour today folks.

[Risky Schemer]

Police say that a suspicious object was found in a lot on the Arizona side.

Seems like it would have to be a mighty big object to be a threat to Boulder Dam.

[Uncle George]

HOOVERVELT DAM is the proper name (he he he he )

[Redcloak]

Today: May 30, 2002 at 14:35:22 PDT

Hoover Dam closed by bomb scare

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Hoover Dam and U.S. Highway 93 were closed to vehicle traffic Thursday to let a bomb squad examine an unidentified object in a parking lot.

The 12:30 p.m. closure created lines of traffic for miles on the Nevada and Arizona sides of the Colorado River landmark, said Gary Bryant, dam facilities manager.

He said the object, about the size of a one-gallon coffee can, was left at the lower parking area on the Arizona side of the dam.

"We don't know what it is," he said. "For safety, because it's so close to the road, we called the bomb squad."

Bryant and Bob Walsh, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the dam, said the bomb experts were summoned from Las Vegas, 30 miles west. Neither knew immediately which agency was providing the team.

Bryant said the visitor center on the Nevada side of the dam, about a quarter-mile from the object, remained open.

The highway is a main route between Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Motorists were detoured about 60 miles south on U.S. 95 to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz.

Commercial tractor-trailer and bus traffic has been banned and police have searched passenger cars at permanent checkpoints on both sides of the dam since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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No updates, awaiting clearance to rinse.

[Paul Atreides]

Yeah, but just think how much more comforting it is knowing that Hillary Clinton is making National Security her top priority.

[Lorenb420]

[sheik yerbouty]

If the terrorists damage a dam, the Euphtates dam in Iraq should be no more.

[Dec31,1999]

Yada yada yada. Make my day.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Motorists were detoured about 60 miles south on U.S. 95 to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz

Just a little inconvenience...

[Tennessee_Bob]

Yeah, but some folks like to call it Bouver Dam too.....

[Hank Hill]

How did you get my family's picture? Are you one of those there stalkers?

[Dec31,1999]

Loose lips sink ships. Or is that what you were trying for?

[Hank Hill]

I don't know about yadda, but YATTA! will SURELY make your day.

[Lucas1]

Quote"He said the object, about the size of a one-gallon coffee can, was left at the lower parking area on the Arizona side of the dam. "

Perhaps it was just a coffee can :) someone through out...lol