{"id":5076,"date":"2017-05-29T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2017-05-29T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:50:44","slug":"severe-flooding-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5076","title":{"rendered":"Severe flooding &#8211; evacuate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we were staying in the Branson, MO area we had a couple of bad storms. \u00a0Two 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.<\/p>\n<p>But, about 10p.m. it was the rain and the flooding of the river our RV park was alongside that got us. \u00a0We got a call from the manager that the river was rising fast and we needed to evacuate. \u00a0We jumped up and got the rig secured, unplugged and hooked up to the truck in record time.<\/p>\n<p>It was barely fast enough! \u00a0When I raised the leveling bars and picked up the little pads I put them on, I had to fish them out of the water. \u00a0We got out easily although we were both soaking wet.<\/p>\n<p>We could see all our neighbors except one packing up. \u00a0The folks were were next door to us weren&#8217;t at home, and we don&#8217;t know if their RV flooded. \u00a0I hope not!<\/p>\n<p>We went to a Lowe&#8217;s that was close by along with several of our neighbors. \u00a0In five years of full-time RVing this is the first time we&#8217;ve spent the night in a parking lot without water and electricity! We talked to several of our neighbors in the Lowe&#8217;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. \u00a0We 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.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning we hooked up and headed to our next stop (that&#8217;s when we were planning to leave anyway) so we didn&#8217;t go back to the RV park. \u00a0I sure hope everyone got out ok!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/park-that-flooded-and-we-evacuated.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/park-that-flooded-and-we-evacuated-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/park-that-flooded-and-we-evacuated-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/park-that-flooded-and-we-evacuated.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were staying in the Branson, MO area we had a couple of bad storms. \u00a0Two 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Severe flooding &#8211; evacuate!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-127-murfreesboro-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}