Flooded Out On The 4th of July

67avion wrote:

Farmerjon wrote:
that looks like a terrific camping area.
When we are heading towards NC or Ga We make our 1st stop at Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park even though it isn't a full days
drive.It's only 270 miles.
We get a kick out of watching the tug boats with their barges. WOW what power.
And has a bonus we get to avoid crossing the river at Cairo and sharing the bridges with the semis.
As far as tne flooding. Yeah it is a pain, Yesterday the short road we live on nad both bridges washed away. one at each end of road.We had no way out.

I've never stayed at Tom Sawyer's RV. I think its near Memphis? And don't leave us hanging. What happened when your road was cut at both ends? Fire up a rock crawling jeep? A boat?

Its one of the pleasures of this part of the world where a lot of us are prepared for most anything. Because "most anything" keeps happening.

Apropos Tom Sawyer: “…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” – Mark Twain

Yes it is in Memphis,Ark A nice place to stop over.
One end of the road was repaired before noon, It is a concrete bridge with dirt ramps built up to it and both ends of the bridge were gone.They just had to go down stream and fetch the gravel back. At our end the culvert was completely washed away.I mean it was taken down stream and is gone.
For our end they brought in loads of small boulders 1 to 2 ft diameter and a new Tin Horn and piled boulders for rip wrap on both sides of the road. Best job ever.They had it done by noon today.
around 5pm we had more rain and the new bridge is getting tested.
We are expecting heavy rains tonight and we are supposed to go pick up a bull tomorrow. That's a real big maybe as to if we will have a road to drive out on.
Both bridges were washed out last Thursday. They repaired them and they washed out again Monday and now here we go again.
The water doing it's damage.



Here are pictures of the road when it was almost washed out. that's the culvert that has washed away. It was found a 1/4 mile downstream.




These are pictures of the new road after a burst of rain just hours after they repaired the road and there is water already starting to flow over the top