Marcye, I use to live in Northwest Arkansas and we use to camp out just north of there at Crystal Springs Camp ground so I am familure with that area. Normally very beautiful. I agree that you can't stop camping just because this happened. Just be aware of where you set up your camp. I made my husband break camp once in the middle of the night in pouring rain because we were camped beside a stream that had a Mountain on one side of the creek and a clift on the otherside of the road. After it rained most of the night, I made him move us up to higher place till morning. He kidded me about that until we found out that that stream had a flash flood later that year. I don't hear about that anymore. This could happen anywhere. We had the remnents of a hurricane that moved into Oklahoma two years ago and there was flash flooding that took out most of a town (on the plains...) so live your life and don't let this kind of thing keep you from enjoying whatever.....