Originally Posted by marsye

The dead count is now 20 and 40+ still missing. They said on the news that a bus full of boy scouts were also there from Texas. The campground was full!!! Also all along the many roads out in that area that were along side the river people set up camps on any spot they could find so theres no telling how many people were actually in the area. There used to be several roads into this place (we've been on all of them by car and 4 wheelers) but now only one and they had to make that one. This place is so far into the woods and mountains so the rescue efforts are not easy. There is absolutely no cell service in that area and no phone service. And is even hard sometimes for law enforcement to transmit. We are sitting here listening to the scanner and watching it on CNN & other channels and its sounding worse all the time. Is hard to believe this is happening just a few miles from us! Especially since we only got an inch of rain last night!!! We were there just a few days ago but the way it sounds it will be a long time before anybody can get in there again.