Yellowstone Closed due to Flood: First hand account from inside the park
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Record breaking flooding has closed Yellowstone National Park. It is the first time Yellowstone has ever closed due to a natural disaster and it's unknown when and how much of the park will reopen in time for the summer season.
We were in Yellowstone and witnessed this stunning park transformed by the relentless rains and flood waters.
A minor correction: the flooding occurred in June 2022, not 2020. I misspoke in one section and stated that the flooding occurred in 2020.
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Mother Nature has never needed humans but we certainly need her, something most people will never understand.
Amen .
No such thing as mother nature!
@@humbleservant2878 you do not sound so 'humble'...
George Carlin once said the only thing the Earth can't make is plastic it now has all the plastic it needs and it no longer needs us
It's God, Father God who controls all weather and sends or stops it all. He wants repentance. In Jesus name
The environment is not, never has been, and never will be static. It will always be undergoing change. We as humans just need to adapt. I love Yellowstone. My wife and I spent two weeks there last summer. We had been there before and hopefully we will be able to return again one of these days. IMHO people have been lulled into a false sense of security. In an ill advised attempt to "Child Proof" the world, people have come to think the wild areas are not much different than Disney. As noted in your video, nature is beautiful. But it is also very deadly. Long ago this was understood. Now you get foolish people going up to a Bison to take a photo with it. Then they are surprised when something bad happens and look for someone to blame. Very Sad!
Exactly it's an ever changing eco-system, we took my parents to Yellowstone , then a few years later we took Hubby's parents , so many things had changed, new geysers opened others completely dried up , different wildlife in others areas than they previously were , rivers and streams changed where they flowed , some trees had burned down (which some need to germinate) new ones growing , we are just stewards of the land and need to remember that it changes , so we should adapt and yes people jumping into hot springs (which will boil you alive) and petting bison is ridiculous.
There really isn't anything static about reality, no matter where you are. And you can never really stand still. You're either going forward or you're sliding backwards! That's life, nothing permanent, nothing static.
Very well said.
Human effect on the environment? Carbon dioxide makes up .0043% of our atmosphere. There are claims humans contribute .03% of that .0043% of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So, .03 X .0043 = 129 millionths of 1% humans affect the world of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. You’re so correct, the environment is never ‘static’.
And humans, especially these liberal, leftist, brainwashed democrats, need to quit believing they are the ultimate power. EX. Humans are the top of the food chain, mosquitos are the bottom of the food chain, who do mosquitoes feed on? So mosquitoes feed on a 1500 lb. grizzly, they feed on a 1800 lb. bull moose, and they feed on all humans.
And some people don’t believe God has a sense of humor. Yeah. Have a great day.
I agree. There is a great book we bought the first time we went called Death in Yellowstone. Talks of people doing foolish things like petting the bear cub….
Yea but at a much slower pace than today's rapidly anthropogenic climate. We sped things up and we will pay the price hell well be lucky to survive
Yellowstone will come out of this just fine. People also thought it was forever destroyed during the wildfire 30 years ago.
Natural disasters aren't disasters in earths timeline. They're disasters when man made structures are destroyed or we're inconvenienced when we can't visit the park.
For those whose plans were upended, I highly recommend Custer State Park in South Dakota, it's almost a mini Yellowstone.
Was there two years ago. Magnificent!
Yes beautiful place Custer State park in S.D. My wifes home state they have heards of buffalo there and its a beautiful drive through the park.The surrounding black hills is awesome as well great stuff thank you
@7:52 is a face in the clouds... god?
Agreed
YES!!👏🏻👏🏻
Truly the best video I've seen about this situation in Yellowstone this year. As a local Wyomingnite I'm very pleased to you tell the truth of what is doing on in Yellowstone right now. I really appreciate your care about us local residents going through the devastating situation. So many communities and neighboring states are being affected by the flooding. Nobody has even mentioned it. We love tourists but the park and our families and businesses have been destroyed. We need time and patience to rebuild what has been lost. So many of these businesses who serve the tourists need time to rebuild. That doesn't happen overnight. Not only the rain but the snow we got on Memorial day weekend and higher temperatures have caused flooding and landslides. Unfortunately there's going to be more run off with higher temperatures starting today. I'm truly sorry for all the people who planned on seeing Yellowstone this summer. As this guy said there's many other places to go see this summer. Yellowstone and surrounding areas will be here next year and the years to come. It's going to be awhile for the Park gets back running again. Enjoy all the other national parks and come back next year. Towns businesses and homes have been destroyed. There's no stopping mother nature. Well done video!
I was driving to Gillette back in the end of April when a snowstorm hit with some of the highest winds I’ve encountered. shut down the interstate for 2-3 days and was stranded for 3 nights but at least had a hotel room to stay. I listened to local radio on my way out and their was talk on the damage it had done to local cattle causing death.
There’s no stopping climate change either. Who’s to say more events like this aren’t on the way. Perhaps and hopefully less severe for Yellowstone but they are coming. I feel bad for everyone effected by this tragedy. Hopefully the rebuilding goes ok.
You are very kind. Our thoughts and hopes are definitely with those who are most affected by the flooding.
I'm from Cody and my son's businesses were ruined due to the devastation & closure. But more than that, so many people in Red Lodge etc. lost their homes & also their businesses. My sons have been sending supplies to the evacuees but my heart hurts for everyone.
We're very sorry to hear this has happened to all the families. We didn't see all the behind the scene stories until now.
Last year I returned to Yellowstone for the first time in 40 years. The first trip I ever took was with my dad in 1981 when I was 21. In 2021 at the age of 61, I made the trip with my 29 year old daughter to reprise the trip I took with my Dad 40 years before. We drove 7k miles and visited 6 NPs, 5 state parks and 2 national monuments. I'm so happy we were able to see Yellowstone together before this natural disaster. It is a magnificent place. Praying for the restoration of this national treasure and for those who call Yellowstone their home.
From NC and toured the Utah National Parks few years back, putting 1200 miles on a rental car. That was spectacular and hope to get to Yellowstone, Wyoming and Montana before I die.
@@pattisue1469Don't over think about going to Yellowstone, Just do it and you will be happy you did, Have Fun🙏🐾🏞️
I grew up in Livingston. I was fortunate enough to have a Dad who loved the Park so we went there often. I took my little boys there, worked at the snow lodge at 17. I love it. This flooding went on down river past Billings. It was just the perfect combination of snow melt, and rain. Nothing ppl can do or not do would have prevented it.
Seriously, he LOST me trying to bring in "climate" control on this video. Nature is nature and we give man WAY too much blame for changes in same, especially here in the United States, the strictest emissions on the planet. I love how we sign on to climate treaties, when we are decades ahead of other world powers, then allow the likes of China and India "delayed" compliance (decades). There is enough science to PROVE humans are NOT changing climate. Laura Ingraham had a scientist on last night proving this with data.
People make assumptions but no one knows. That park has bot been there very long in geologic terms
Not everything is "climate change". Jeeze, can't we just see Nature doing her thing. Nothing man caused here, not in the least. Nothing to do with the Al-gorian lies.
@@pattisue1469 I noticed he didnt respond to your reasonable comment. I almost turned the video off !
Don't expect much from FJB to help out on this one.
Agreed! But he'll quickly send Billions more to Ukraine.
@@josephkaminskid.o.personal2936 yes, sickening
@@josephkaminskid.o.personal2936 Those $$ will never see Ukraine.
Just because you witnessed an event that happens all the time (in geologic time) doesn't mean global warming. Watch a Tony Heller video .
I'm 40 years old and finally got to visit Yellowstone for the first time on June 10th. June 10th was beautiful, June 11th was more rainy, but still gorgeous and we took the southern route out of the park to Jackson, Wyoming on the 11th, not knowing that not long after the entire park would be closed due to the record flooding.
We were so fortunate to be able to have a couple of days in the park before it closed. I feel so bad for those that have upcoming trips planned. Hopefully at least some of the park reopens soon.
Dude, the only inconvenience experienced during the flood was the encroachment of human beings. The animals seemed to have moved away from the elements. The natural elements. Not man made elements.
Lest we forget we are apart of nature, not separate from it. We are all carbon based life forms from earth. It blows my mind how people think we are some kind of alien to this planet, and not derived from it
@Kas Dbm self-hating?
I've visited the park since i was 12 and am now in my 60's. Ive never gotten pictures of the wildlife as good as yours. So sad the park is closed. Love your video and your comments. Well said!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. I’ve had some amazing experiences in this park. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@@HomeInWildSpaces Yes. Humans in high places are currently trying to control the weather. I've been watching the skies since I was a child, but seeing those X's and grid patterns in the sky, is NEW. I hate these people. They hate all Creation, and it shows.
I don't remember when I first visited Yellowstone because I was probably "in utero". In 1948. Grew up in Billings, so we visited at least once a year through my childhood and teens. My favorite place in the world.
Yes.
I'm sure it will reopen when the flooding stops.
This is so sad I was there as an employee in the mammoth area absolutely gorgeous loved every second of it but we all got evacuated and my happy place is underwater 😥
Thr number of people crowding our parks is disgusting. I grew up in the shadows of Yellowstone. People are ruining it. I can't even go back.
I too have struggled with the increasing numbers of visitors. There's definitely a balance to be struck. Yellowstone and our parks need people to survive external pressures that would exploit them, but people, included those who love the park also threaten the park and the park experience.
My grandparents used to take me in the 70s & 80s. Even then people were ignorant about animals and features but the number of incidents were so low in comparison. I went a couple of years ago and saw endless lines of cars, footprints where they don’t belong and trash everywhere.
Thanks to those who have noted that the flooding occurred in 2022, not 2020. Chalk it up to a slip of the lip.
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i love all these 1000+ year weather phenomenons happening on a monthly basis now.....
Welcome to the beginning of a huge Grand Solar Minimum......lol
I was wondering why 2020.....
@jon rogers
The 1000+ year weather phenomenons, the hundred year floods etc happening fairly often.
Incidentally, this has always been the case which begs the question,
WHO came up with these nonsensical numbers to begin with if they have no correlation with reality???
We knew what you meant. My wife and I went there in 2020 and came in through Red Lodge in the Northeast. It was one of the best stretches of road I have ever been on. And then came Yellowstone, my third visit and my wife's first and it was great.
That weekend increased snowpack substantially in the area and also helped to end a regional drought. It has also been a cooler than normal spring with lots of precipitation. Just so happened you had one hot day followed by a cooler low pressure system.
Your post seems to brush this flooding off as if it’s something that should have happened to alleviate a drought. Yet, it was a 1000 year flooding event. Another one added to the long list of 1000 year events that now happen annually in the US and around the world. Why was snowpack low to begin with? Why was there a drought to begin with? Warmer climate means less snow pack, more runoff from rain events rather than gradual runoff from snow events, more summer fires due to the decrease in snowpack and increase in rapid runoff. It’s a vicious cycle from human caused climate change. It’s neither a coincidence nor just a break from a regional drought. To think so is ignorant to the bigger picture.
@@nicholasstolle9649 I live in the area and I think JR (nice name) is talking about how the snowpack got so high, so late. We usually don't get anything substantial added to the snowpack between April and May but we had a large amount during these months with very cooler than average temps. This literally caught up our snowpack in a short amount of time from a dryer than average season. When you add higher temperatures mixed in with a snowpack that is typically melting - not building - during the runoff months; flooding happens. Mix all of that with an above average rainfall and it becomes the perfect recipe for disaster. They weren't dismissing irregular patterns with the climate; they're making an observation based on everything leading up to this event. The only one that sounds ignorant is yourself. If you want people to meet you half-way for open dialogue to talk about these sort of things, you might want to try a different approach.
@@BattyBitz Way to go! We live in a world of parrots. Somebody speculates something, (1000 year flood) then it is repeated, then it becomes fact. Then they stack speculation , lies) upon speculation and that is supposed to be fact. When I heard of the flood I immediately wondered if Yellowstone had a cool spring and less snow melt. It has been a very, very cool spring in the Northeast as well. I guess all it took was probably a normal yet heavy rain event to cause this problem. Best of luck on the re-building and lets all do our small part like we should have been doing from the very first Earth Day now probably 50 years ago. Turn off the lights, make less shorter trips, etc, etc.
I think they closed the park in 1988 due to the fires which was 34 years ago. That summer in Montana was nothing but choking smoke. The catastrophe before that was the earthquake in 1959 (we felt it in Missoula) that killed over 20 campers when a mountain slide covered their campground and formed Quake Lake.
We had reservations in the Old Faithful Inn on the night the fires came through. We had cancelled because of the smoke which my asthmatic wife couldn't have withstood.
This year, we were to have arrived at Canyon -- via Gardiner and Mammoth! -- tomorrow. Cancelled that a while back because of Covid.
global warming
Just drove out of the park on June 11th after spending 7 great days. Stayed in one of the park cabins. Loved everything. I feel bad for the situation.
Thanks for the video and your wonderful perspective. I've also enjoyed cycling all the roads in the Park, as well as Nordic skiing many of the locations in winter. Those methods of travel, in addition to backpacking trails like the Thoroughfare trail in 1977, have given me a respect for the sights, feelings, smells, and sounds of this jewel. I hope successive generations can experience the awesomeness that is Yellowstone.
Yellowstone river use to expanded every year till 2001 when drought started to come in .
That building was way to close to the river bed .
As for the roads washing out . It was due to land so dry the impacted by this high amount water so suddenly .
Also it's been drying out do to the volcano
Activity.
Thank you for the report .
Exactly weather changes and things will happen.
Yes. As a decades long visitor to yellowstone, the temperature swings were quite normal, in fact it has been much warmer for us during previous visits. The amount of rain on top of a higher than normal June snowpack was what was not normal (not the temperature!)
And they built the road on the very river bank. not too surprising it washed out
I agree , the more I watched the video the more it sounded as a sales pitch with a sprinkle of guilt grifting.
@@forsterl.stewart414 Sure... especially when Man pushes it along.
Wow great job. Love all the footage, you captured the park so well. Hey keep displaying nature like this!
We weren’t in MT during the flood, had to make due with lots of phone calls to friends and watching news. 🙏🏻
Humans: crazy devastation!
Eagle: no biggie..
Deer: no biggie..
Bear: no biggie..
Human: OMG! Sky is falling because our crappy road we built IN the river channel got damaged.. 😭
I'm sure the wildlife will do just fine. I agree on the roadbed, though. When my wife and I drove in from Cooke City in 2015 the 1st thing we said was the road placement was dumb and it was only a matter of time a good storm took it out.
Thanks for the video. We had to cancel our trip that was supposed to start next week. I worked in the park in the summers of 91, 92, and 1993 - some of the best summers of my life. I love Yellowstone and hope it can be restored.
I worked in the park 75 and 76 West Thumb ...best summers of my life!
Thank you for sharing your post. My family and I have seen the news coverage of this devastating event but your post brings a different spin to it. It brings a personal story to it. As recent visitors to this beautiful park we send our prayers for those personally impacted and well wishes for those who have the long task of putting the pieces back together.
Take care and stay safe. Sending Hawaiian sunshine and prayers to the Yellowstone Park and it’s community. ☀️🌈🙏
Great aspirational essay and account of your experience. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for clearing up the date, I had not heard of a flooding event in 2020. Excellent footage thanks for posting.
Excellent, excellent video diary. Your video reminded me of the Coquihalla Highway in British Columbia, Canada. It too suffered catastrophic flooding with multiple washouts in November. Took nearly two months for the highway to reopen to all traffic. Now the same with the northern entrance. Both are economic lifelines to the communities that line the roadways. There is hope on the horizon. Take it one day at a time. Humanity will prevail. Thanks for the video update. Yellowstone is on my bucket list to visit one day.
This video contains an excellent message to all. It is about our responsibility to our parks and the respect we should have in caring for these precious lands. It is also about how unpredictable nature is. Thank you for the time and thoughtfulness in creating and sharing this video with all of us. You have accomplished a great thing!!
I couldn't quite figure out what to say to this video....so many thoughts! I think you articulated it very well, thank you.
Thank you, Mike! That was a wonderful video with a great message! Kudos, my Friend!
I am so sorry to hear about the damage caused in Yellowstone. I agree with you so much. Our parks and gardens are so important. Where I live in the UK, many people are getting rid of their gardens and replacing them with paving or gravel beds. In fact out of 20 houses in my close, there are only 3 gardens left. And the result of all this concrete, gravel and tarmac is that in the last couple of days during a heatwave, temperatures reached 98f when the weather reports were giving lower temperature readings. By the way, I have one of the 3 gardens.
Thank you, thank you! Having lived in Billings for nearly 20 years, we have made many, many trips to Yellowstone and the surrounding areas. I watched this aghast with my hand over my mouth almost the whole time. I finally see why the park is mostly closed now. I'm just imagining what must have become of our favorite campground (Pebble Creek), how things look at Fishing Bridge and I was stunned to see your shot of the Old Faithful area. Our usual route took us over Beartooth Pass (I'm sure you've done that one) where we were snowed on on the 4th of July. Now that is a pass that will pucker almost anyone but very beautiful too. I can barely put into words how heartbreaking this is, however - we were living there in 1988 when nearly all of the park was on fire all summer long. We breathed the smoke from it all summer long and were sure it was devastated however, most of it has come back to some degree. There were areas in there that burned so hot that even 10 years later not a thing was growing. What I want to say is that nature heals itself (given a chance). I hope we give it a chance - and I hope it gives us one.
My Momma lives at the top of Beartooth 💔 I planted her there by the ski lift in 2009...
I'm from Ohio and will one day return to that location and many others in and around Yellowstone 💞
Were some of the driving shots taken on the new Dunraven Pass road? We go out every year, and can't wait to get back on that road. It's our favorite part of the park.
Anyone interested should look into the 1959 earthquake which killed over 28 people, took out roads, bridges, and homes and created an entire lake Quake Lake (and Visitor Center-Quake Lake). Air Force brought in helicopters to med-evac the injured and others.
My Mom use to say "If you don't like the weather.... Wait a minute.... It will change !!!" Thank you for the video !!!
We're in year 2 of an El Nino brought on by extraordinary solar activity. This is not a man-made event, contrary to the somewhat popular belief that changes in weather are caused by mankind's behavior. Weather changes and has done so since the origins of the planet and long before man's entrance into it's existence. The reason for weather change is easy to see. Just look up in the sky on a bright sunny day and you'll see this huge radiating orb that gives and takes life here on our planet. Don't be fooled by charlatans who have cooked up a scheme to enrich themselves with fable about greenhouse gas emissions, etc. They just want your money.
Ah yes, year two of an El Nino event that has reached backwards in time, giving us numerous one-hundred, five-hundred, and one-thousand year events in the span of... oh, what is it now, a few decades?
I think you've been staring at the sun too much, and that it has blinded you to anything substantial.
Actually, you may want to look up & review radar across the globe.
It’s all very manmade. All thin lined storm front are packed with dark green polka dots and nearly all storm front are skinny lines... all were made by the hundreds upon hundreds of chemicals that have been forced into the atmosphere.
Go watch ‘The Dimming’ & the scientific proof of how man IS altering the weather.
I’m so sorry about Yellowstone and it’s devastation. Thankful everyone got out safely.
Exactly what I was thinking. If people were to see what has happened on earth 100s of thousands of years ago, this is probably nothing compared to that !! The earth changes all the time and always will..
A Day.
Thanks for your comments. It never ceases to amaze me that the climate religion bases its fanaticism on politicians utterances. Politicians who stand to make untold fortunes on the implementation of the climate change agenda.
Meanwhile, research such as that revealed in Dark Winter, is scoffed at.
I think it was Euripedes, who said something like, if you speak truth to a foolish man, he will call you a fool.
Be safe.
I've spent my life, 58 yrs, in ur parks & caring for ur planet. I was so extremely fortunate being raised by progressive naturalist. As children we carried garbage bags to cleanup everywhere we went. Today when I go on my backpack trips & adventures w my dogs there's so many garbage I can't pack it all out. Dogs have full bags hanging from their packs. I have full bags hanging from mine & that might b halfway thru a 3 day hike! I've spent 2 days cleaning up a campsite! I've always believed these land belong to all of us to enjoy & explore. The housing crisis of '08 started changing my mind as homeless moved to public lands. (Not getting down in homeless) I moved from the beautiful PacNW 12 yrs ago & now live in a National Park in AR. 2020 hit & people hit the parks bringing their garbage w them. On a pack trip to Colorado I watched a man throw out his 5 gal bucket of urine & fecal matter 5' from his truck towards the river about 10' away! I kept thinking how many days do I have to hike to get away... Needless to say I no longer believe ur lands r for everyone. The #1 first basic rule is pack out what u pack in #2 rule dog 6-8" hole for your poop! Including ur dogs. #3 vegetation is to look out not pick, dog up, or cut down #4 gather down wood for fires ONLY where permitted
In WA there r several amazing hikes that u now have to register for & has couple years waiting list all because we humans r destructive slobs who only care about themselves.
so sad but true
It is also true that a lot of people don’t realize the truth. A lot of people say it is a-cold winter so global warming is false but they don’t even realize that is a far form the truth as Pluto is far from the sun! They need to wake up and realize that warming summers equal harsher winters which in turn equal more dangerous event.
We were in Yellowstone June 2-4th. You're right about the weather, 4 seasons in one day, it's crazy.
Thanks so much for the lecture, I needed that.
Like you said once in 1000 year event. Weather and climate change happens.
i wonder how they know its a once in a thousand years, it could be 500 years
I’ve driven all the roads in Yellowstone park a couple of times with my kids. It’s shocking to see what’s happening there and I feel bad for the towns in that area that depend on the visitors.
It shouldn’t be shocking. The climate is changing and so many of our “leaders” fail to take any action. This is happening before our eyes & many refuse to see it. It’s all about the mighty $, rather than survival of our precious resources. The small towns in Montana, who mostly refuse to “believe” in climate change, are seeing it first hand. Hopefully everyone will finally recognize this issue before it’s too late & that day is soon😿
@@raad684 building in flood plains is the issue. $ .. exactly. No one consulted an engineer and if they did they ignored them.
China pumped 100 billion into reforestation this century. Since the 70's the went from 12% greenery to 22% greenery. That has a huge effect on local climate.
India is also literally re-greening the desert now. It's pretty cool. Although they build their cities with complete disregard for engineering and only focus on getting most $ return on building tightly packed high rises. It's destroying the ability to live in the central hubs of India ... meanwhile the outskirts are flourishing - except you cannot buy anything modern and useful out there nor get mail delivery without riding into the metropolis
You act like GOD can not take care of his own planet.These are only cycles.
@@shucksma6337 😹😹😹. Oh, my little one, you really have not a clue😹😹😹. The planet Earth shall overcome & shake us humans off like the little fleas we are. You are correct that Earth WILL survive, it’s the humans that won’t. The more we make this Earth uninhabitable, the faster Earth will cleanse herself of us😎
Thank you for the video 👍🏼❣️
Great video and commentary. Thank you 😊
We left the park June 4 after being there for three weeks this was one of my bucket list trips from my wife and I we saw some amazing stuff and a sad to see what has become of it yeah hearts go out to all the park people and people caught up in this mess
We left on June third after a week there. Got there on Sunday, May 29 and woke up on Monday, at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge Cabins to our car covered in snow. Our last two days were at Mammoth and made a couple of trips to Gardiner for gas and food and photos at the Roosevelt arch. Some of these photos break my heart
@Barry le Noble very well said. The good news is that the natural features and wildlife will likely do very well over the next few months as they get a reprieve. Those most likely to struggle are the communities surrounding the park. It will be very important for visitors who would have visited Yellowstone to expand their itineraries and discover the areas outside the park.
Just heartbreaking. On my bucket list, and for now, I’ll have to work around it. And will hope and pray for better days for Yellowstone x
It's a beautiful thing, without the floods the park would never exist in the first place.
Well said. Thank you for your video & astute observations.
HEARTBREAKING!! We were there in 2012. Just drove through after visiting northern Idaho, where my Mom was born, on our way home to Texas. We went into Yellowstone via the Northern Entrance, after spending the night in Livingston. It was an AMAZING trip & I'd LOVE to return to spend some time there & see more of it, but I'm SOOOO GLAD I got to see what I did in that 1 SPECIAL DAY!!! Hoping that the Motel we stayed at in Livingston, and the family that owned it, are all OK!!!
The park itself and its wildlife and natural features will likely continue on mostly unaffected by the flooding. You are right to focus your attention on the people in surrounding communities who will very much struggle to piece their lives back together. We too hope and pray they are able to rebuild.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It echoes mine as well. We must respect nature and should not be taking it for granted.
Amen
I'm from the UK and I recall spending a two month plus trip in Idaho falls from early May-26th July 1977. I was a young eight and a half year old kid. We had relative's and friend's take us out regularly. There was never a dull moment. I can recall like the back of my hand, virtually the whole holiday. It all started with a night in Salt Lake City and my first ever foray into a McDonald's (when it tasted delicious and the seating was wooden bench seats) I recall my grandmother's luggage being momentarily lost by TWA, so she was without her make-up bag, which was a worst case scenario. I think it arrived within 36hrs. Beside having weekends at two reservoirs (Mackie & Blackfoot), visiting the Teton mountains, going to a rodeo and spending a day in Montana. My most memorable event was a thoroughly long day in Yellowstone national park. I still have the magazine/parkguide to this day with its fantastic photography and expressive writing detailing the park. Totally magical memories. But I'm now totally dumbfounded by the flooding and subsequent damage to the park's infrastructure. Strangely enough if I recall correctly, I think our day trip to Yellowstone was around the same time as the flooding, but 45 year's before.
Im bummed for the locals losing tourism income in towns like my beloved Red Lodge and nearby Cooke City, yet when I saw the park had to evac 10,000 people I was blown away. 10,000 WERE IN THE PARK IN ONE DAY?!? That number is way too high for a fragile environment like this. Im happy this land will be able to heal for a while, hopefully the park gets at least a month to heal. None of our national parks should have TEN THOUSAND VISITORS DAILY. They wont last much longer if our country's problem with overtourism to run amok. I have lived in Tahoe for 15yrs and have seen it and it's local workforce have been pushed to their limits from overtourism and burnout.
Thanks for your video. I did appreciate you just stating the facts and very few opinions, for the most part. Stay safe!
great video, thank you for posting. I was at Zion last year right before their big flood. Missed it by a week. Love your analogy of rain drops and power in numbers.
Climate change is the polarizing issue that will not unite us. So what person freedoms do we give up in the name of carbon emissions? I’d say there are numerous human activities that could be addressed and issues resolved without polarization. How do we get China and India to comply? Answer, we never will.
As a Swede with a visit to Yellowstone on the top of the bucketlist i thank you for your videos. I realize now that my dream of visiting yellowstone weakens year by year due to mother nature. And i respect that. Stay safe and thx again. Cheers.
Don’t let it weaken your dreams! You can still come see Yellowstone just not right now, ask questions and do the research around when to go. I go every September halfway through the month as there are less people and the weather is “moderate”.
Great video Mike!! Thank you for sharing it!!!
Excellent footage and dialog. One thing for sure mother nature is a powerful force. Unpredictable and changes come and go. We have only been recording these changes for a footnote in history. For millions of years these changes have occurred with no data to prove what is normal weather patterns and what is not.
While I'm very saddened to see the devastation in the park, this video has a very important and powerful message. Thank you!
The largest problem is other countries like Indonesia its countries like these have no laws or regulations. No matter how much we change till they stop the polluting of our globe it will be a lost cause. Third world countries need to be held accountable.
Thanks for sharing, looks like they have some rebuilding of the roads and such. I was their earlier this year. Hope the communities effected can rebuild. I appreciate your view. I was in Island Park Idaho that weekend and it rained the whole time, glad for the moisture though, fills the reservoirs .
great video, lots of good info and scenes/ great message about caring for our planet... /amazing you were out there while the rains were coming down, thanks for sharing the experience.
Our pleasure! We're still shocked that the flood happened to coincide with our trip to Yellowstone this year. Wish we had understood the significance of the event while we were there. There is so much more we might have documented.
That's how things go some times. Thanks so much for watching! Hope you are well.
Thanks for the video. We had just left the area on 6/10 and I couldn't wrap my head around what had happened in such a short period of time. I knew it was rain and melting snow, but your video and explanation were helpful. And it was nice seeing some of the sample places we had just been. It was our first time and I'm still in awe of the place.
We spent some time in Grand Tetons as well (we stayed in Headwaters/Flagg ranch between the two, so we were mostly in the south) and we noticed that the lakes were low at Colter Bay and surrounding areas just before this flooding up in Yellowstone. Did this weather affect those areas at all? I wonder if the lakes are doing any better.
I really appreciate the animal shots. One thing we didn't get to see was bears.
It amazes me how so many people are so resistant to even considering that humans might be playing a role in this. What does a person have to lose by just trying to make a difference ... just in case the scientists are right? Is being right, saving face, or backing a political party really worth the risk? I'll never understand why it's impossible to convince some people that we can and should do better.
So what caused the unseasonable low temps & snowfall?? Pretty sure man can’t control Mother Nature..
Can you start by explaining what in the world MAN had to do with this flooding in Yellowstone? I do NOT believe humans control the climate, especially not in America, who has done more than ALL countries combined (catalytic converters since I was young and I'm 70). We enter climate treaties when we are already doing the best on the planet of any country, and allow the HUGE countries with billions of people like China and India and others, have "delayed" (decades, if ever) compliance. What a joke. Had a friend who worked in China as a teacher and had to change cities twice the smog was so bad it affected her breathing. We all know about them banning driving in the city that hosted the Olympics few years back, then I'm sure back to their old ways after. I am sick and tired of the climate BS wasting US tax money, blaming "fossil fuels." Biden wants to use dirtier oil from Venezuela and the Middle East? WHY? It is a fraud being perpetuated upon the masses. MANY talented scientists say there are less issues than more with climate change today, but too many people trust Greta Thurnberg?!?!? Like all corruption, follow the money. How much $$$$ did Al Gore make on his Unconvenient Truth (LIE) movie? He made $4 million I heard and lives with a very big carbon footprint in his mansion and private travel. Gotta love these politicians, "Do as I say, not as I do." (John Kerry).
Thank you so much for the video!
Thanks for sharing. We are planning our first trip to the area in a few months. Where was the awesome scenery filmed that starts around the 9 minute mark that was labeled as outside park boundaries? TIA
Great footage. I’d say not only is Mother Nature fed up but if you overlay maps of underground tunnels in the US you’ll see there’s something else going on here than just a ‘natural disaster.’
meaning what? where do you even get overlays of underground tunnels??
Yellowstone is an amazing place. Being a Wyoming native I am proud to have part of it here in my home state, however I feel that the population of people allowed to travel through the park needs to be cut down, the traffic in and around the area is as congested as the worst rush hour in America, not to mention the CRAZY out of staters that think that taking a selfie with an Elk or petting the fluffy cows is a great idea, there was even a couple who put a baby bison in the back of their Subaru because they said it was too cold for it... Although this park has been around for many years it is still a place of wild and should be kept as such. Less people, less politics, less big business and lower costs in the park would go a long long way to help secure the verity FIRST national park in the USA.
We’ll said neighbor!
Get rid of cars. Bike only or bus
Reservation system
Beautiful. Thank you for this upload and information. xoxoxo
WOW... Thank you for the boots on the ground view.
Glad you are all safe.
Heat trends and cycles have been happening for 1000's of years, LONG before man-made pollution.
I think it is pretentious to think that we have the ability to controll weather. And while your video is interesting and your title caused me to have curiosity to see what was actually happening I did not enjoy your lecture. while interested on the visual content I stopped the video when the lecture started. I am glad you and your family and those guarding the national park were able to help everyone and no lives were hurt or lost. Stay safe and I hope you and everyone else will be able to return shortly.
Superb message at the end and you make a great guide to understanding the variability and vulnerability of the precious, wild world.
Thanks for the amazing video and commentary! We departed Yellowstone on the 11th. It wasn't until the 13th that we had read the news. Having no knowledge of the rains, we were in shock.
We were in Yellowstone when the bear killed and feasted on the elk in your video. It's sad to see that it's closed right now.
I was there in 2019. Remarkable video! Loved your message at the close, the raindrop analogy is spot on. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, and food for thought. I visited Yellowstone in September 1986, and you can look at the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and know that weather conditions control what occurs in this beautiful wilderness. By the way I left the park on the highway east to Sheridan, and got caught in a huge snowstorm, loved the trip!
THANK YOU for this eyewitness coverage of Yellowstone…!! ❤️❤️👣
Why is the Pacific Northwest so cold this spring if its so hot in that area? We can't even grow spring crops because of the cold.
It’s the same in Montana so I question that “hot” weather report. It finally went above 70 degrees today.
MT resident here: We've been getting some unseasonal warmth to break up the colder temps, it's just too short to make for great growth. That being said I planted a yard from straight mud and seed about a month ago and it's doing great. I think this picture is more of an accumulation of higher temps over the course of years than a single season.
Be kind to the land; be kind to one another.
Thank you for this great and impressive video. I like the images as well as your text.
Just found your channel AWESOME!!! Look forward to watching all your videos. From what I've seen you would probably grow your channel by doing MUCH longer videos!!! I will most definitely subscribe and tell people I know. Have a blessed day
Thanks for sharing ' we all care about Mother Earth ' Native American has always loved their land , respected every animals etc.. talk about climate control that is a your typical man has created all the damaged for $$$$$$$$ and now look what has happen , Own Government , state and Local officials is the human climate Control -including black hills , Yellowstone , Big Hole Battlefield , Bryce Canyon , Sedona park , Devils Tower , Gila Cliffs Dwelling etc .. and hundreds more scared to Native American People as I am . that is The Plain Truth. Earth has always been self cooling , warming for thousands of Years.
A flood comes like many before. Sometimes a 100 year flood. So why do some people get on the climate change rant? Flood, hurricane's Earth quacks all kinds of bad stuff happens. People want to blame someone so they blame themselves. The earth is a wild thing so maybe it could be just that.
Thanks for sharing. We have reservations in the south loop next weekend and will make the best of it. I'm devastated for Yellowstone and other wild areas suffering under climate change.
Mike, thank you for your excellent video and thoughtful narration. You reminded me why I love this special place.
Hidi 🤗 just meandering along the trails and your channel came up in the top of my feed, great thoughts 🤔 about stewardship of our forest. Yet I can't agree with the causes of such worldwide weather events. I see them as effects from weather modification strike against humanity, geo engineering. Over the years of intriguing information given in this horrible mutilation of of so called natural weather conditions. It's plain to see the atrocities against humanity. And now more than 90 food related industrial production and warehousing facilities have been destroyed if not permanently closed. Leaves one to think 🤔 about this controlled collapse of economys through our our world stage. Just thoughts 🤔 about our condition.
PS May Father guide you in all things so be it praise unto YESHUA Amen 🤗😺🍿💕
Amen brother, amen! So many people living in the world that have eyes but do not see. Keep spreading the truth!!
Every time I visit I wish the gates would close and the precious lives there would be left alone. Watching the way humans treat that nature is too much. I agree, this is most definitely on us. We are messing it up. Thank you for sharing this! That's a special place. ✌️
We have only effected this planet for centuries our impact is minuscule compared to the millions of years this planet has evolved without all the data we did not record there is no way we can make an informed opinion on any thing to do with change on this planet. One thing for sure changes do occur at unpredictable times. God bless our planet we call home.
You just contradicted yourself. If you want the gates closed, quit going. What good is it to have nature if no one sees it. We are all Gods creation. He would never had put us here to destroy our world. Climate has always cycled.
Also…. Love the video man. Great updates.
Amen and Amen concerning showing our Parks respect. Thanks for your dialogue.
Dude, seriously? Yellowstone has been around for tens of thousands of years. Think that's the first major catastrophe it's faced? And we weren't there for it. Who was to blame then, the bears? Geesh. Climate worry warts.
Exactly.
They act like bad weather is a nuclear bomb or something
You can’t reason with some of these liberal snowflakes ❄️
Thank you for the footage !
We had more precipitation than ever this year. Yet the stats say it's not been snowing too much more than usual. The issue is that meteorologists looking at statistics separate snow and rain into two different categories. It doesn't dawn on them that you should count both in order to figure out how much water is in the mountains.
So they compare the rain fall to the total rain fall on years when it was warm and precipitation was more likely to be rain than snow, and they compare the snowfall to years when it was colder and snow+hail formed more often. But it never dawned on them that there was enough snow AND rain to beat records.. so it's been more like two years worth of water in one year. There was a lot of rain this winter.
I am also surprised that civil engineers were not consulted when some one decided to build camp grounds on top of flood plains. On top of other issues such an area is gonna be thick with fog and your tent and gear are all gonna be soaked anyway. So is your firewood.
Meteorology in general seems like a dead science to me. Forecasts have become consistently inconsistent. And ... some times they can't even do their simple adjustment job : I remember one year the forecast consistently used chance of precipitation incorrectly and it never came out right - as there was 100% precipitation each time they promised any %... but if you converted the % chance of precipitation to millimeters of total precipitation it was more or less a linear relationship which absolutely accurately predicted chance of precipitation and AMOUNT. So they have useful data - they forgot how to work it. Now a days I don't even notice these lack of adjustments ... there is just a mess of wrong data.
Around 2009-2014? I remember I used to be able to get super accurate forecasts, actual accurate local weather (many apps just show fake numbers now) and detailed metrics from neighbourhood to neighbourhood where you could see changes within half or one degree based on elevation and bodies of water nearby. It was so useful especially when i was planning to go to the forest or planned walking routes through warmer neighbourhoods or knew to put on extra clothes cause temps by the lake were way lower than by my house and humidity is high. A proper humidity reading ... I miss that. For a while there we had meteorological paradise. It's all gone now and getting worse by the month.
Super sad that this is happening. Great video. Awesome channel. New follower here. Crow
This is excellent footage wonderfully narrated. Thank you for sharing it with us.
How come there were such high temperatures when Oregon has unusually cold temperatures? Especially towards the coast.
I question that, too, because it was cold all spring three hours from the park and snowing at Old Faithful the day the park was evacuated. The Beartooth Highway east out of Cooke City is still closed with 12 ft. of snow.
Very deep trough in the Jet Stream.
It isn’t that the temperatures were super high. It’s the sequence of unusually heavy late season snow, followed by temperatures high enough to begin significant snowmelt, followed by several days of significant rainfall that in turn accelerated the snowmelt. The result was huge quantities of water being dumped into the river systems in a very short period of time. Remove any one of those steps and there wouldn’t have been this scale and intensity of flooding
You are witnessing geoengineering.
I want to ask if this is a once in a thousand year event then what caused it the last time it happened? Was that due to “climate change”? How did that work? Blaming every single thing that happens on this planet as “climate change” is ridiculous. While I know that mankind definitely has an effect on the environment and that we need to address that. I also know that not everything is because of it. Some things are part of the natural cycle of nature. Be amazed at the power of nature without being so arrogant as to claim credit for every event.
Great video… My wife and I were just there!
We had a great week from the 4th - 11th, but saw the incoming weather on the news…
Got out just in time
So sad. Me an my ex drove to Montana years ago about ten years before the big fire. We stayed at Red Lodge Montana it was a beautiful little town but I seen were the town is destroyed it's so sad. I glad that my children got see Yellowstone before the big fire now Red Lodge. Heart breaking. Prayers 🙏 for all those involved.
You lost me when you started talking about this flood being our fault. Until then............
People need to start waking up and realizing we're wrecking our environment for our kids and grandkids. Because this is happening all over the planet and people aren't noticing it.
They will only notice when it starts to affect their wallets
Mended my fuelish ways by ceasing air travel, w Iraq war...car free now for six years...E bike/mass public transit is my choice....but I'm just 'one raindrop'....collectively we can make a big difference.
Wonderful video! Thank you!!!
We were stuck in Gardiner and drove the northern loop and road the day before. I had the same observation about the snow run off, but it was my first time to the park so I just thought it was the norm.