One year before 9-11 we were in Las Vegas for the New Years Gift Show with our friends Chuck & George. We decided to take an afternoon off and visit the wondrous humongous Hoover Dam. Before 9-11 you could take the hard hat tours and go deep inside the workings of the massive dam.

    We all had our hat on and headed into Hoover Dam. Our tour guide took our group of 8 people into the inner dam facilities.  As we made our way thru the famous dam with many tunnels it was very interesting.

    We were told that the concrete is still curing. There was small leaks of water actually coming thru.

    Finally we were at the very base of the gigantic mother dam just above the winding Colorado River. All of a sudden very loud sirens went off.

    Our tour guide and the workers all started to run every where. We didn’t know what to do and just looked at each other …. what was going on? After about 4 minutes the sirens  that echoed the rivers lower canyon chamber stopped and our guide re-appeared.

    Of course we all asked what just happened.Our hard of hearing ears and wondrous white faces.

    Our guide actually said…. “That was the dam’s emergency warning system to evacuate the dam.  I knew you couldn’t keep up with us so we just left you here.”

    Hmmmmm, You really can’t make this up!