Originally Posted by marsye
Originally Posted by cjomomma
This makes me never want to go camping near a creek again. I've thinking about all the times in Ca that we went camping on Mammoth mountain at Britz camp ground, it has a creek much like the one in Arkansas running thru it. I never imagined something like this could happen until now.
This was a freak event. You can't let this prevent you from camping again! The rain clouds just stopped right over this area and exploded. We only got 1 1/4" here. I really don't think there was time to warn people because it was unexpected. I've lived here most of my life and have never heard of this happening in the area. It may never happen again and then again it could happen tomorrow.
It is also in a a bowl with hills/mountains on all sides, which means the rain has nowhere else to go. So the combination of a stalled rain storm and that bowl meant an EXTREME flash flood down that river.