Mississippi River Risin!

We decided to pack up Monday, a day early and move to Memphis, Tennessee due to bad weather coming in the next day or so. I had tried to get us into the Tom Sawyer RV Resort located on the Mississippi River just west of downtown Memphis. But. It's under water! There is a flood warning in effect until further notice because the Mississippi River has risen way above it's flood stage. Shoot, was so looking forward to sitting and watching the tugs and barges move along. Found a campground, actually a fair ground/convention center?, just east of Memphis and we are here now until maybe Friday or Saturday. We are uncertain when we will move more north again -waiting and watching for better weather in Ohio. Found a neat Mississippi River museum to go to while here - and it is closed too due to high water, also. We have been to Memphis before, don't have to go see if Elvis is in the house, he is and we saw him driving down the road in a big motor home! We saw where our brother-in-law's hospital is located - Danny didn't tell us how big his hospital was - St. Jude's Hospital is enormous. No, our Danny Thomas is not the one who founded the hospital, our's is from Pigeon Forge, TN, not Hollywood! Sunday afternoon the weather forecast for Arkadelphia Arkansas was for 30% chance of thunderstorms. We got it big time about 8pm that night. Talk about a little scary - tornado warnings were going on. Unbelievable lightning, not too much rain, and the winds were not there thankfully. We were camped at a location that was quite scenic - looking over a ravine and lots of trees and wildness - but Dave was concerned about heavy rains undermining where we were parked, causing a landslide down into the ravine. My thought was heavy wind would cause a tree or limbs to fall on us and that wouldn't be good either. We learned valuable lessons at this campground: 1. never camp within 1/2 mile of a highway - way too noisy! 2. don't take the premium site even though they say it's beautiful, check it out first; 3. don't park under big trees - park in the open; and 4. we can check off Arkansas on our map and not bother coming back. Sorry Bill and Hilary - Arkansas didn't impress us at all.