Ever been totally rained out?
We took the motorhome to Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta last Monday. Beautiful place, but we hit some serious rain. Waterton had 232 millimeters (9.1 inches) in three days. We disc...
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RoyB wrote:
We was tent camping in the Smoky Mtn Natl Park in Gatlinburg TN one year setup near the banks of LITTLE RIVER flowing through the ELKMONT camp.
Got woke up in the middle of the night by the Park Rangers to evacuate the camp grounds as the LITTLE RIVER was overflowing its bank.
No time to break camp or anything - just grabbed a few things, got into the truck and headed for higher ground.
Got to go back later on after sunrise and found our site pretty much in tact but the whole roll of tents on the waterside got washed out. There was tents scattered for miles downstream...
No one hurt with many thanks to well alerted Park Rangers...
Roy Ken
I think we were down stream in Pigeon Forge that year! watched that stream go from easy flowing to raging river and 2 foot from camper. I had everything ready to bug out if needed. We were camped at Myrtle beach when Sandy came through..LOTS and LOTS of rain and local flooding..We spent most of our time in the malls at Myrtle just to stay dry.. Popup was the last time we left early due to rain..
Randy
