Originally Posted by marsye
Originally Posted by raptureready
Marsye, I want to thank you for going to the trouble to keep us all informed about what's really happening. Sometimes the news media just isn't informative or focuses on one tiny sliver that they think they can get the most emotional response from. Since you are so close we can get an honest appraisal and info. Your pictures give us a real view of just how devastating this was. My prayers are with all the families that have been effected by this tragedy. Flash flooding here in the flatlands just means that some of the low lying roads might be flooded, the rivers get high, that it's easy to hydroplane on the highways or that you might get water in your basement---NEVER the "wall of water" or raging torrent that these people experienced.
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Marsye, thank you for being our personal reporter on this tragedy. We'll probably never know the real extent of it - but your account makes it much more real than what I've seen and hear on tv. Just the thought of those poor people in tents makes me realize how vulnerable we can be.
One of the pictures on the news last night showed an RV that was thrust vertically against a house. The people in in the RV managed to get the rear door open and the people in the house helped them get out into the SECOND floor of the house. Imagining the force of that flash flood is almost impossible. My stomach clenched when you told us about the busload of Boy Scouts. Thank goodness they're ok and helping others. I used to be a Girl Scout leader, and every time we went on a weekend camping trip, my inner anxieties wouldn't let me rest until we got those young ladies safely home. |
One of the pictures on the news last night showed an RV that was thrust vertically against a house. The people in in the RV managed to get the rear door open and the people in the house helped them get out into the SECOND floor of the house. Imagining the force of that flash flood is almost impossible. |
I don't think most of us can fully realize such a thing happening. I know I can't. Living in a city we've never seen anything like it. Thank you Marsye for being our eyes during this catastrophy.
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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.
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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.....
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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.
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It's an absolute miracle that anyone survived that kind of devastation. Especially with it happening in the wee morning hours.
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by the time fema would get there, everything will be done....it's the community that makes it....Marsye, I'm so glad you were not taken away from us! I'm not ready to loos a new friend like you! Our prayers to all of those involved and those who have been stricken with this tragedy.
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Now only 3 missing instead of 22 like they thought. They have located them. They took off for home when they got out. So its looking a little better!
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