Severe Midwest storms turn RVs into islands

There's good reason this RV is listing to the port side. RVers Paul and Wilma Carson from Sebring, Florida were enjoying their stay at a well known campground chain near Indianapolis, Indiana. Severe storms have pounded the Midwest this spring bringing torrential rain and flooding. One night last week Paul and Wilma went to bed in their Holiday Rambler Imperial motorhome. The next morning they discovered their motorhome was now an island. A stream overflowed and cascaded into the campground rising high enough to fill RV storage bays with water and silt. The water line comes up to the bottom of the motorhome stair-well. Paul moved his coach to higher ground at the Indiana State Fair Grounds in Indianapolis. He couldn’t get all the water to drain out of his storage bays so he tilted to the driver side and drilled holes in the floor of his bay to drain the remaining puddles. The muddy water deposited silt in his bays and got into the towed vehicle as well. He’s been busy cleaning up before the next series of storms hits. “The moral of the story is to camp on high ground,” he said. What would you do if you knew storms were heading toward your RV park with a strong possibility of flooding? Click on the “comments” section below and tell us how you would handle it. Striving for the high water mark in RV journalism - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing