I've been in the immediate area around the recreation area. It isn't a swampy area. It's pretty typical western Arkansas. Heavily forested, rocky, hilly terrain. River valleys in the area are rocky and can be very steep sided in places.

The area is quite a ways from any metropolitan area & I honestly don't know if a NOAA weather radio would be able to get a signal.

I'm hearing that they may have received as much as 9" of rain in one hour just upstream from the area impacted. This appears to have been one of those events that the only truly safe way to handle it is not to be there.
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