'Life-Threatening' Floods Leave Buildings, Vehicles Submerged in North Arkansas
This video from Joey Nania, a competitive fisherman who posts under the moniker ''Joey Fishing,'':https://www.facebook.com/reel/641024185579260/?s=single_unit shows floodwaters from Forty Island Creek nearly reaching the roof of an antiques store, and leaving a vehicle half-submerged and a Valero gas station surrounded by water.
Nania said he was driving home to Alabama from the St. Croix Bassmaster Open on Norfork Lake, west of Hardy, when he encountered the route blocked by flooding. The contest had been ended early due to the heavy rainfall, local media reported.
'This is really bad,' Nania says in the video. 'We've got to pray for these people, and anyone driving home from the Bassmaster Open, be safe. This is not good.'
The National Weather Service in Little Rock reposted Nania's video on X, and said: 'Please, we beg you not to travel, unless it is absolutely necessary! The magnitude of flash flooding taking place in portions of the state is catastrophic. More rain likely to fall.'
Speaking to Storyful later on Saturday morning, Nania said they had 'made it through before it got too bad' and that he was almost home in Birmingham, Alabama. Credit: Joey Fishing via Storyful
Well, I guess I can't go home this way.
This is uh in Hardy, Arkansas.
Look at this.
This is really bad.
Flooded up to.
The almost to the roof of that building, this, that's a car.
Oh my goodness.
And there's a Valero gas station.
40 Island Creek in Hardy, Arkansas is not passable.
This is bad news.
You got to pray for these people and anybody traveling home from the Bath semester open, be safe.
This is not good.
Well, I guess I can't go home this way.
This is uh in Hardy, Arkansas.
Look at this.
This is really bad.
Flooded up to The almost to the roof of that building, this, that's a car.
Oh my goodness.
And there's a Balro gas station.
40 Island Creek in Hardy, Arkansas is not passable.
This is bad news.
You got to pray for these people and anybody traveling home from the Bath semester open, be safe.
This is not good.
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