Donald was on the internet around 9:30 AM and decided to check the weather on the internet on weather.com; then went to National Weather Service and checked the warnings for the area. A tornado was sited at Damascus and headed our way, projected to come over us at 9:50 AM. We called Carma and Gerald and asked them to go to take shelter with us at the bathhouse. Then we called Dean and Geraldine to come. By this time it was raining cats and dogs! The sky was yellow. We hung out in the ‘boys’ bathroom. The campground hosts, a young couple, and a young man from the electric company were all over in the girl’s bathroom.
He heard on his radio that Damascus had been hit; also a tornado had touched down on Prior Mountain which is south and west of us. It’s the mountain we came down to get to the Narrows. We stayed at the bathhouse for approximately an hour. The electricity went out. We listened carefully for a ‘train’ sound but we never saw a tornado. We did have a few small hail stones. The weather system looked ominous, though. Finally the rain subsided and the sky began to clear. We heard from several folks on their cell phones that the electric power station that served Greer’s Ferry had been hit and that electricity was out everywhere. We also heard that tornadoes had touched down in Greer’s Ferry which is just across the bridge from us, and several areas between Greer’s Ferry and Drasco. DunnGone has a generator so we could have stayed, but Carma and Gerald and Dean and Geraldine were going home to get their generators. We decided to go home. Kay drove the truck pulling the boat for the first time. Donald was behind driving DunnGone. As we drove from Greer’s Ferry on Arkansas Highway 92 toward Drasco, neither of us could believe the damage we saw—trees down and broken, houses gone with foundations only remaining, trash in trees and on fences, barns slumping over, roofs gone, trailers awry, and power lines down everywhere. We were amazed how much help was already on site, clearing the road, power crews working on the downed lines and poles, neighbors helping neighbors. We were pretty pooped when we got home. We just checked the mail and crashed.