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Other journalist have focused on the underground homeless in New York as well. Photographer Margaret Morton made the photo book The Tunnel, film maker Mark Singer made the documentary Dark Days and anthropologist Teun Voeten wrote Tunnel People. Media accounts have reported "mole people" living underneath other cities as well. In Las Vegas, it's estimated about 1,000 homeless people find shelter in the storm drains underneath the city for protection from extreme temperatures that exceed 115 °F (46 °C) while dropping below 30 °F (−1 °C) in winter. Most of the inhabitants are turned away from the limited charities in Las Vegas and find shelter in the industrial infrastructure of the Las Vegas Strip, similar to most cities. The Las Vegas Channel 8 News sent their Eyewitness News I-Team with Matt O'Brien, the local author who spent nearly five years exploring beneath the city to write the book, Beneath the Neon. Mark Sayre, Investigative Reporter, I-Team: "Beneath the Neon"—Underground Las Vegas. Las Vegas resides in Clark County and the Clark County Regional Flood Control District stated the valley has about 450 miles (720 km) of flood control channels and tunnels, and about 300 miles (480 km) of those are underground. A September 24, 2009 article in the British paper The Sun interviewed some of the inhabitants and included photographs.

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