Las Vegas starts to party as 2021 ends — BLOG

Check successful with america each nighttime arsenic our squad covers New Year’s Eve successful Las Vegas from the Strip to Fremont Street.

6:50 p.m.

Reports of wind, rain

Rain is falling connected the Strip astatine Tropicana Avenue, and upwind has been stirring up particulate adjacent the Wynn Las Vegas.

— Jonah Dylan and Katelyn Newberg

5:50 p.m.

Strip closure begins

Officials have begun closing a ample information of the Las Vegas Strip arsenic an estimated 300,000 revelers descend connected the city.

The Metropolitan Police Department expected the Strip to beryllium wholly closed to conveyance postulation by 8 p.m. betwixt Spring Mountain Road and Mandalay Bay Road.

Eight hotel-casinos are scheduled to enactment successful an eight-minute fireworks show astatine midnight, but weather could enactment a damper connected the celebration.

— Carri Geer Thevenot

The upwind retired present is nary gag tonight. That’s particulate blowing astir successful beforehand of the Wynn. The fireworks could beryllium delayed up to an hr if the upwind is beardown enough. pic.twitter.com/JVHE8nk510

— Katelyn Newberg (@k_newberg) January 1, 2022

5:45 p.m.

Wedding bells

Stephanie and David Kereluk planned to travel to Las Vegas to get joined connected New Year’s Eve, and astatine 12:31 p.m. today, they did conscionable that. Stephanie Kereluk was inactive successful her wedding formal and acceptable for a amusive post-wedding solemnisation astatine the Fremont Street Experience.

The mates traveled from Grayling, Michigan.

“It’s a 2nd wedding, but this was perfect. I loved each infinitesimal of it,” Stephanie Kereluk said.

— David Wilson

5:35 pm

Lining up astatine Fremont Street Experience

Susan and Terry Eckstein from Appleton, Wisconsin, were the archetypal 2 radical successful enactment to get into the Fremont Street Experience New Year’s Eve party, which was to commencement astatine 6 p.m. This is their archetypal travel to Las Vegas.

“It conscionable seems similar a raucous time,” Terry Eckstein said.

They’re astir excited to perceive A Flock of Seagulls execute arsenic 1 of the bands making up the ’80s and ’90s themed party.

Terry Eckstein started humming the band’s classical “I ran.”

— David Wilson

UNPLANNED FIREWORKS?: It looks similar idiosyncratic is mounting disconnected fireworks successful beforehand of @Bellagio fountains. I number 5 person gone disconnected now. This is my presumption from Flamingo and #LasVegas Boulevard. #RJNow pic.twitter.com/AulqdfyXac

— James Schaeffer (@jamesmschaeffer) January 1, 2022