Storms hit isolated areas and residents along the White River in east Arkansas and the Black River in the northeast contended for another day with rising water and muck.
In northwest Arkansas, authorities reported Saturday that they had found a body believed to be that of a man whose pickup was found submerged in a creek after heavy rains 10 days ago.
The National Weather Service issued a 24-hour flood watch Saturday morning for Lawrence and Randolph counties, while predicting more rain through at least Monday.
Saturday, Margaret Walker stayed dry at her tobacco shop in Clarendon during a heavy rain. Storms and rising water two weeks ago chased her and her husband Gary from their home in the small community of East Lake. They set up house temporarily at a duck hunting club and have traveled by boat to check on their house.
“I had to go down there yesterday and take the food out of my refrigerator and freezer because a house had floated into a power pole or power lines and it knocked the electricity out,” Walker said. “I just stepped out of the house into the boat.”
Walker said the water was three feet from the front door of her home and many of the houses on the lake were under water.
“Nobody in their right minds would still be down there on the lower end,” she said. “I just pray and say ‘God, please take care of my home.’ But if it happens, it happens — we’ll survive.”
The Monroe County community of Maddox Bay along the White River, where at least one resident was sandbagging his home a few days ago, was under water and only a flock of birds seemed to be watching over the small community on the White River.
The March flooding was the most severe in Arkansas since 1982, and places along the White, Spring, Eleven Point and Black rivers reached 100-year flood stages, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A 100-year flood is defined as having a 1% chance of happening in any given year.

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