While we were staying in the Branson, MO area we had a couple of bad storms.  Two night in a row we had major thunderstorms and lots of rain, and on the second night we had a hail warning and a tornado watch.

But, about 10p.m. it was the rain and the flooding of the river our RV park was alongside that got us.  We got a call from the manager that the river was rising fast and we needed to evacuate.  We jumped up and got the rig secured, unplugged and hooked up to the truck in record time.

It was barely fast enough!  When I raised the leveling bars and picked up the little pads I put them on, I had to fish them out of the water.  We got out easily although we were both soaking wet.

We could see all our neighbors except one packing up.  The folks were were next door to us weren’t at home, and we don’t know if their RV flooded.  I hope not!

We went to a Lowe’s that was close by along with several of our neighbors.  In five years of full-time RVing this is the first time we’ve spent the night in a parking lot without water and electricity! We talked to several of our neighbors in the Lowe’s parking lot the next morning and found that one neighbor in 9G had flooding into his RV by the time he was able to get out and damage to his control panel.  We were in 7G and you can see from the picture below how far up the water would have risen for our site to be underwater.

The next morning we hooked up and headed to our next stop (that’s when we were planning to leave anyway) so we didn’t go back to the RV park.  I sure hope everyone got out ok!