[media id=290 width=610 height=340]<\/strong><\/p>\n The rain fall caused the Caddo and Little Missouri River to rise to about 20 feet (six meters).<\/p>\n A hydrologist from the National Weather Service in Arkansas, Tabitha Clarke said “The Little Missouri River crested about 5:30 am and the Caddo about 8:00 am,”<\/p>\n Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe told reporters early Friday that “They probably had no warning,” of the water coming to them.<\/p>\n According to Beebe the rainwater poured down the hills like funneled down to the camping areas where several hundred people were in the busy summer period.<\/p>\n Beebe told CNN “It was just a horrible convergence of a number of events. And as a result of it, you see this huge loss of life\u201d<\/p>\n Some officials described the area as though a Tsunami or a tornado hit as houses were damaged, cars flipped over and furniture and kitchen items all over the roads and areas where the flood hit.<\/p>\n The National Weather Service had issued a warning at approximately 2AM.<\/p>\n “There is a search and rescue mission under way, we’ll stay here as long as it takes” said Bill Sadler the, Arkansas state police spokesman to AOL News yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n Rescue workers on Friday had reached 60 people and taken 20 of them to hospital due to their injuries.<\/p>\n An estimated 300 people were camping in the area when the flash floods hits the wooded area.<\/p>\n An officer also spoke of the difficulty of finding the exact number of dead as there was no way of knowing who was there and who was not.<\/p>\n “It’s not a regular campground where you check in, we’re even having difficulty with our radio communications and moving toward satellite hookups right now. So it will be a while before we have reliable communications in that area.” Said the officer<\/p>\n On Friday three helicopters were sent to help groundsman and volunteers to find survivors or the dead.<\/p>\n Authorities are currently looking for survivors and dead bodies which may have been washed away as one body was reported to have been washed 8 miles downstream.<\/p>\n “This is going to be a week or two- or three-week recovery.” said Gary Fox a former emergency medical technician helping with operations.<\/p>\n Write your comments and thoughts bellow.<\/strong><\/p>\n Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span> Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 19)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flood devastates Arkansas as : A reported 16 people have died and over 70 are missing after flash floods devastated campsites in Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,118,59,14],"tags":[9456,9462,9455,9461,9464,9463,9454,9458,9459,1133,9457,9460],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-video-gallery","category-world","tag-16-people-killed-america","tag-70-missing-flood","tag-arkansas","tag-arkansas-flood-video","tag-flash-flood-arkansas","tag-flash-floods-united-states","tag-floods","tag-ouachita-mountains","tag-ouachita-mountains-flood","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-flood","tag-video-arkansas-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Many people were hit by the sudden floods while they were sleeping causing many to drown.<\/h2>\n
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The floods were caused due to a seven inches (18 CM) of rain which was poured into the area within a few hours said the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n![\"arkansas](\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/arkansas-flood.jpg\" "\\"arkansas")
Officials are currently searching the area but also depend on worried relatives calling in to say that someone was missing.<\/p>\n