Posted on July 25, 2022
Nobody knows how this travel trailer ended up on a sandbar Thursday in the middle of the Ohio River in Evansville, Indiana, although there was a lot of theories offered on a Facebook page where it was posted.
The sandbar had only been there a few days, the byproduct of annual river dredging conducted by the Louisville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The RV was not there when a crew finished on the river Wednesday evening around 5 p.m. But when they returned Thursday, there it was. The Coast Guard is investigating. But for now, there are only theories. Here are comments that appeared on Facebook.
• What if I told you this has always been there and if the water keeps receding that some kind of redneck trailer park Atlantis would be discovered.
• Are you tired of your neighbors? Now you can have your own island. Act now, this won’t be on the market very long!
• Definitely a body in there.
• I am now looking for a vendor to transport my motorhome out there before all the camping spaces get taken!
• Hope they aren’t in it when that sand bar goes away. They’ll be singing “I feel the earth move under my wheels.”
• When the housing prices have gotten too high….
• Evansville has to have the world’s smartest rednecks, sand bar has been there only a few days and already they have conquered the mighty Ohio.
• Secluded beach in the middle of the Ohio River. I’ve got it booked for a week long vacation in August.
• The GPS said go this way.
• I knew I should’ve tied her off last night.
• Looks like it’s in a flood zone, probably gonna be hard to insure.
• Does that site have a full hookup?
• So to the owner, what’s your weekend rental rate? Asking for a friend…
