Branson, Missouri Flooding

This video was shot in Branson, Missouri on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 between 5pm and 6pm Central Time. Opening sequence was shot at Lakeside RV Park (aka: Branson City Campground) located just south of the Branson Landing (where the Business 65 bridge crosses over Lake Taneycomo). As you can see, Lake Taneycomo has risen over its banks and spilled into the small flood plain where this campground is located.
Next sequence was shot at Stockstill Park. The raging torrent is the normally-docile Roark Creek. If you look closely, you can see that Roark Creek has also spilled over its northern banks (opposite bank from where I shot this) and is flooding a small portion of the park near one of the baseball fields.
According to National Weather Service Radar estimates, Branson and surrounding areas have received between 6 to 10 inches of rain in the past 24 hours.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Flood
• Midwest
• Flooding
• Severe
• Weather
• Branson
• Missouri
• Landing
• Roark
• Creek
• Stockstill
• Park
• Lake
• Taneycomo

[fishingtrashcan]

i live in marthasville, wheres branson?

[marsradio]

@fishingtrashcan Branson is in southern Missouri - near the Arkansas border.

[msnhottie69]

Hey... just wanted to let you know that i lived just behind the campground where he is at just around the corner all throughout my childhood life 1983-2001. Flooding was not all that common around that particular section... There were a few years the lake would crest and go even further than where it was now.

[marsradio]

WOW...so this was a rare flood, then? I've only been here for 3 years, and we've had severe drought each year I've been here. In fact, I've run aground on my boat on this lake, and stopped going on on it as a result. I guess we won't be having that problem for awhile.

[jreed314]

im from the hazelwood area and the last bad flood we had was in '93. no offense, but i do feel that the urgency in which missouri got response almost the next day from an unexpected flood is amazing compared to 2 1/2 years down in new orleans from a known hurricane. most will argue that a hurricane is much worse than just flooding but i think you see my point...

[marsradio]

OH TRUST ME, you're not gonna offend me with a comment like that!!!! You're preachin' to the choir. I lived in Los Angeles when that violent earthquake hit in 1994 in Northridge. We had the National Guard and FEMA there within hours!!!!! And, guess what???? Earthquakes are not predictable...they just happen. Unlike hurricanes which hover off the coast for days before making landfall!!! Can you say: "different Administration????" Sorry...now I'll get off my soapbox!!!

[KendalSee]

Wow!

[tyler051095]

i remember my vacation to branson in like 2008 i think and it was spring break we were gonna go fishing and swimming on one of the lakes but it rained like the whole week so we just went to the titanic the ripleys the dinosaur area and the haunted maze thing and when it didnt rain we were outside playing tennis or at the resort playing the games they had outside. there was also this resturant we went to that had a fish pool outside and we could feed the fish. do you know that place?

[goodoldbill]

The outhouses were accessible

[f1zzrawr]

I <3 H2O!

[gieco53]

I remember this. I remember the boat dock got lose and almost hit the bridge but got snagged on something, it was a close call.

[Thrillcekr]

Goes to show you how much those tourist traps are actually contributing to the people that live there. One would have thought, with all the money being made there, that Branson could afford some decent drainage. No way that place should be flooding out like that.

[jordanmills069]

my grandma and grandpa live off taney we live in indiana and we go down there every year but it wasnt flodded when we went so our trip wasnt ruinedwe love branson and forsyth

[dorth213]

yeah, they got muh jean shorts all wet like.

so i beat muh wife, and the kids down the street.