more bad news

[GaryPaladino]

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[jclaudii]

God I pray that children didn't get swept away! I'm tearing up at the thought of 12 people loosing their lives in a swift current of death! Fingers crossed and all that it's not as bad as the reports make it out to be!

[johnnybiggun]

I will be shocked if no children were victims.... The campground is full of families this time of year....Many of them from Texas or points south whu have no experience with this type of flash flooding...

[BooF4FooD]

I am reading on facebook of several children missing... This is horrible... Heart breaking

[johnnybiggun]

I hope this is not correct but a local Dr. friend of mine just posted on his facebook page that up to 50 people may be missing.....

[Bozman]

From what I'm hearing on the scanner, those numbers will go up. Sounds like all but one road in the area, and several bridges are gone too. They are asking for people to stay away from the area. A really sad day. We only got about an inch of rain at Shady, but apparently the sky fell just east of here. They may be recovering bodies, as roads are opened, for the next day or so.

[johnnybiggun]

I'm hearing the same thing Boz... This could get much worse...

Military medical chopper fueling up at the Mena Airport .. Sure it is involved in the search...

[Half Ton]

It's hard to predict the rainfall, and I'm sure it's even harder to close a campground in a flood prone area......but this one would have been a great candidate for a shut down given a hindsight perspective.

What a tragedy.

[jclaudii]

I just can't believe the heartless idiots that are posting comments out here:
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[ouachita hiker]

I feel like that most of the fatalities will be from points north and south of AP. Every time I have been in the area at this time of the year there are people camped every were and any were they can camp. Most of the time they are right on the stream banks in tents. I had a good friend that was hiking the ERL in preparation for a John Muir Trail hike. He lost his truck to the flood but he has his life.

[jclaudii]

That's what matters...I could handle loosing material possessions..but loosing your wife/son/daughter while trying to save a material possession or two cause of flooding...I don't think I could live with myself.

I pm'ed someone earlier on this and I think it was probably a cluster trying to get out of that campground at dark with waters rising that fast in the rain and chaos all around! I fear the road in/out of that area may have been backed up and people could not leave fast enough and/or was trying to save a few of their r/v's or gear.

I also think about all the little places one could camp along the river that may have had someone camping!

[panicman]

got word from someone that ran crooked creek today. They could only run the upper gorge because the small bridge it goes under had been washed out.

I'm sure these poor people did not know what hit them and had no time to get out.

[ouachita hiker]

As mentioned above when I here of something like this that happens along AP I think of all of the
of the road places that I have seen people camp in the past. I was up that way over the memorial
day weekend and every place you could pull of the road that had a semi-flat place to pitch a tent
had campers. They wouldn't have had a chance to get out. All the way up to the Little Mo Falls
area. I read on another site they aren't thinking in days for recovery but weeks.

[wally]

i can think of times i have camped below winding stairs or near lil mo falls. where would you go in the middle of the night to gain 20 ft of elevation. what a scary thought. my prayers to the families. a terrible way to end a summer vacation.