Updates: Yellowstone damaged by record flooding, rockslides

[Jilly_in_VA]

Yellowstone National Park officials assessed damage Tuesday as the park remained closed through at least Wednesday amid dangerous floods and rockslides that have eroded roads, ripped apart bridges and led to evacuations this week.

With flood levels "beyond record levels" and rainfall expected for the next several days, all five entrances to the park were closed, officials said Monday.

The park has seen multiple road and bridge failures, power outages and mudslides, causing evacuations starting in the northern part of the park.

“I’ve never seen this, not in my lifetime,” said Austin King, a firefighter and EMT in Gardiner, a town just outside Yellowstone's busy North Entrance.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, but floodwaters swept away numerous homes, bridges and other structures with the northern part of the park suffering the worst damage.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/14/yellowstone-national-park-flooding-closed-damage/7619882001/

I had not even heard this! Where have I been?

[tblue37]

1. Video at the link.

[CanonRay]

2. This is not damage, it's nature recreating itself.

How the hell do people think Yellowstone got to be the way it was? Saw a video of a massive boulder falling into the river. It had probably lain in that meadow 5 or 10 million years from a previous flood or eruption.

[tishaLA]

3. My thought, too.

It's the park undoing some of the damage we created with roads, etc.

[XanaDUer2]

4. There are homes in Yellowstone nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. The last time I was in Yellowstone was right after the

Awful fire. It was hard to see that much damage. But it came back probably better. The park is beautiful again in the pictures I see.

[UTUSN]

6. When the first headline popped up, I was sweating that it was the super volcano!

[Jirel]

7. Yellowstone is not damaged.

The human infrastructure for putting too many stupid tourists into Yellowstone to rush bison, try to insert themselves between grizzlies and their cuuuuute cubs, and jump into hot pools that cook the flesh off their bones is messed up. Yellowstone itself is enjoying this brief respite from the invasion.