anyone follwing the severe flooding in yellowstone np that has been going on the last several days?
not good for them.
vid
frim billings gazatte newspaper.
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The Carbella/Tom Miner bridge. Guess the last time I drove across that bridge was the last time I'll drive across that bridge! It is gone. Had to take the truck route road over point of rocks but I got a great view of the area.
The river has been receding, for now. There's still more snow up there and it's gonna get real hot starting tomorrow.
Every island and gravel bar is submerged and forests of timber caught in the trees and shrubs but it rose so far out of its banks during the surge last night that the river crossed US89 in several places and flooded entire fields on the other side of the highway, detritus filling the wheels of the pivot irrigation units. The rest area was swamped, the whole thing is covered in timber, including identifiable chunks of that house that fell in. While I was there a small fuel truck showed up and a S&R chopper landed in the parking lot, fueled up and split. There are air rescues still going on around the Cooke City area.
US 89 will be closed at Point of Rocks for a while since twenty feet, maybe, of embankment eroded away so there's no there there connecting the roadway to the bridge at that end anymore. All bridges are being watched as everything along the river that was less than a 1/4 mile from the banks and/or at least fifty feet up got washed over and it's worse in the narrows up at south Livingston. There the roadbed, under construction, is saturated, they made a 3' berm to hold water off the road but the homes behind it are sandbagged to smitherines but are still in water and there's a current running through their front yards, all the way up to the Interstate.
Lots more that I saw but I need to figure out how to post my pics! 
