The July 19, 2023, R-C Morning Report

Genoa, Nev. — The main event for the Douglas County School Board is 10 a.m. today at the Douglas High School Media Center where it’s entirely likely attorney and unsuccessful candidate for governor Joey Gilbert will be named attorney for the school district.

School board trustees got an earful last night on the topic with around half their three-hour meeting time consumed by public comment. I would suggest they pack a lunch today as there’s no reason to think it will be quieter this morning.

I don’t know if we’ll get the identity of the deceased in Tuesday’s fatal collision at highways 50 and 28 in northwestern Douglas County. The involvement of the Amador Stage Lines bus makes it a commercial investigation. There was a line of vehicles trying to make a left turn onto Highway 395 from Muller Lane to avoid the Spooner collision.

I’m going to delve into this, but my advice would always be to go straight at the base of Kingsbury and turn onto 88 at Mottsville, where there’s a light. Any traffic you avoid by bypassing Minden is just as bad or worse north of it, and that jog north of Muller just complicates things.

Thunderstorms hammered Smith and Mason valleys and locations to the east on Tuesday with more than 50 lightning strikes 4-5:30 p.m. The BLM and Lyon County responded to a lightning-caused fire in Hoye Canyon above Wellington around 4:15 p.m. I go to lightningmaps.org to track these storms.

Highway 338 was closed for between Wellington and the Nevada state line on Tuesday for flash flooding. According to the Weather Service, areas received up to 3 inches of rain five miles north of Sweetwater Summit.

The cloud cover trapped some heat in the Valley this morning with lows in the 60s. The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with a high temperature of 93 degrees and the wind out of the west at 5-15 mph.

Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122.