North Yellowstone Flooding

[Bambistew]

My cousins in Red Lodge said its bad, he has a river running down his street with trees floating by, water seeping into his trophy room...

 

[BirdManMike]

I came home from Bozeman last week and looked at the forecast and looked at the river and said oh boy there is gonna be some MONSTER flows!! 15 years ago I'd be running that like an idiot! Haha

Yankee Jim.

https://www.facebook.com/kathy.maravetz/posts/10225467807035690

 

[geetar]

Wow this is crazy. Especially given how dry it was last year.

 

[MTLabrador]

Downtown Red Lodge.

 

[RobG]

I do not know this for a fact, but it sure looks like the drought is over in some parts of Montana.

Unfortunately, I don't think it is. This is just the snowpack coming out all at once.

 

[BirdManMike]

Unfortunately, I don't think it is. This is just the snowpack coming out all at once.

Yep. Late season snow does not harden and melts quickly. This is all the April and May snow coming at once.

 

[JLS]

Unfortunately, I don't think it is. This is just the snowpack coming out all at once.

Yeah, certainly doesn’t take the groundwater into consideration.

Even with all of the rain we’ve gotten, and the incredible vegetation growth, the wetland marsh areas are still about 1-2 feet low.

 

[RobG]

Yankee Jim.

 

[The Hedgehog]

i read 52000cfs at Corwin, previous record was 30000 in 1918

 

[JLS]

HFS.

 

[MTLabrador]

Gonna be some prime fishing for big browns in the hayfield ditches in about 3 weeks.

 

[JLS]

Gonna be some prime fishing for big browns in the hayfield ditches in about 3 weeks.

With a deer hair mouse pattern.

 

[TheTone]

Touronsofyellowstone on IG has some crazy pics and videos

 

[BirdManMike]

Road to the Stillwater Trailhead is washed out. Stillwater Mine:

 

[jryoung]

Gonna be some prime fishing for big browns in the hayfield ditches in about 3 weeks.

So how does the historical high water mark work now?

 

[BirdManMike]

Point of Rock bridge (89) doesnt have much longer.

 

[MTLabrador]

So how does the historical high water mark work now?

I think the high water mark is whatever I say it is.

 

[Nameless Range]

Pretty unprecedented. I’m heading there for work right now to fly the drone.

 

[PrairieHunter]

For the folks who get to stay in the park this is a unique situation. Been a long time since there were not thousands of tourist in the park in June. Probably pretty cool to enjoy the place without idiots even with the flooding.

 

[RobG]

Point of Rock bridge (89) doesnt have much longer.

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I wonder if East River road will wash out. Thinking some of those mega-houses on the banks will get get washed away.