finhawk

Great advice Tom but when you pull into a place that has none of the indicators that you mentioned, you have to rely on the campground management. When they don't make you aware of potential danger, you're kinda in a bad situation. When we went to bed at around 2300 that nite, there was no standing water. In the morning, a fast running river. So the evasive action was "making like a boat"!

I thought it was touch and go for a while. What disturbed me was that the water was about 2' deep before anyone was alerted. Especially when the fire department had asked the management to monitor the situation throughout the nite. I have creases on both sides of the motorhome----one side where I got a plastic fence on the way out-----trying to see thru a rain covered mirror does not work. The other side where one of the 8'X8' wood platforms that were used as patios came floating by and kissed it

We stayed at the Nashville Country RV Park from 30 April until 2 May. At 0700 on the morning of the 2nd, we were awoken by a firefighter beating on the door. I opened it to see him standing in knee-deep water telling me to unhook and get out. A bad situation all the way around. We got out with a little damage but nothing serious. I found out later that afternoon that the area was subject to flooding in heavy rains in the past around the end of April. Management did not see fit to warn anyone. So a word of caution: Stay there, it's a nice park, but if the skies open, go to higher ground. It's not fun wandering around in filthy water up to your waist trying to completely unhook and get out before you're swept away.

I don't know about you Mc, but when I walk around a Park and see all the contraptions that people come up with to drain the "Stuff", I can't help but laugh. Not nice! I know but can't say I'm sorry.

Bruce Lantz US Army Mar 66--May 1978 E-1 thru E-7, O-1 thru 0-3 Armor Crewman, Tank Plt Sgt Drill Sgt, Tank Platoon Ldr, Sqdn Motor Officer, Recon Toop CO, Senior Advisor RVN Inf Bn, Senior Advisor RVN Armored Cav Troop, Basic Training Company CO, OIC 1st Army NCO Academy, OIC 1st Army DSS 14th ACR, Fulda, Germany, 2nd ACR Bamberg and Bayreuth, Germany,--- Fort knox, Ky--4 Corp, RVN, Fort Lewis, Wa and some I've forgotten

I have a much easier solution. Go to Camping World and buy a Sewer Solution for a bit over $100. It has a cup that fits on the outlet in the rig with a water jet. It discharges thru a 1" hose that comes in 10' lengths so you can buy as many as you need. The other end has a 3" and 4" donut that fits in the campground dump. So you just throw the hose on the ground, open the gray water, let it drain all the time and when your ready to dump black, just hook up a water hose and let 'er rip. Check it out. No muss, no fuss and no need for rubber gloves. Needless to say, make sure that both ends are hooked up in the proper position before opening any valve