Yellowstone Evacuation - Worst Flooding, greater than a 1 in 500 year event - June 13, 2022
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2022
- My daughter, Megan, and I arrived at Yellowstone on June 12th, 2022 with plans to do some fly fishing on the Firehole, the Gibbon and Madison Rivers. After setting up camp in the rain and under the watchful eye of a bull bison, we headed out on the morning of June 13th to view the rivers we had intended to fish, learning and experiencing first hand that things were far worse than we could have imagined as we traversed the park. And upon return to Madison Campground told we needed to evacuate!
Wow. So proud of megan for resisting the urge to take a selfie with the Bison..
I loved the way she was concluding that if a bison stops chewing it might be ready to charge, and then while still chewing it took a couple of steps .....
@@RemoteFlyFishing Bison, chewing or not, are as or more dangerous and unpredictable as moose. Better to observe them from a distance. Wise decision.
I took a selfie with one but that’s because it was right next to our car when we were driving so it wanted the selfie
Nice to see a father and his daughter bonding. Parks great
Yes, thank you
I wish my dad felt like doing trips like this now. Father daughter camping trips were my favorite.
After Megan saw the number of views the video got and read all the nice comments she told me that I'm stuck with her now and wants to know where our next outing will be. Alaska?
That was nice seeing Yellowstone. I don't think I'll ever get the chance so thank you for showing some of it. It's beautiful.
I need to post the video I have of Lamar Valley - there were hundreds bison with their babies crossing the river - - maybe a couple of large herds - I felt like I was in the Serengeti. The grassland goes on for miles.
@@RemoteFlyFishing yes..do it!
Thanks for bringing us along on your adventure. I hope you were able to find accommodations outside the park. My favorite clips are the bison with the baby bison, and the interior of the Old Faithful Inn. It's stunning.
You are welcome! We agree with you we both like seeing the baby bison. And I am amazed everytime I walk into the Old Faithful Inn lobby. I was so glad when I learned of the effort made to save the Inn during the fires of 1988.
God bless God loves you
My wife, son and I were there at the same time. Kind of neat to be part of history but it's no fun getting kicked out of Yellowstone! Great video.
We were disappointed as well, and kept running into families exploring areas outside of Yellowstone. But we found some real gems that otherwise we might never have seen, which I will be posting as our journey continued.
Admire how you both seemed to stay positive through the experience even if your visit got cut short. On that track, the footage you got from there is pretty unique! Not many people in the past 500 years who can say they saw all that! ;)
Thank you for your comment. My daughter exudes positivity and it is contagious. Now that I think about it, everywhere we went we ran into families with young children salvaging their vacations. We never heard anyone complaining. I should mention that West Yellowstone really opened up and helped out. One store owner we spoke to opened up his field for Campers to park at no charge.
Honestly I didn’t think we would be evacuated. I thought the park was taking precautions until the flooding subsided. We had no idea of the damage occurring on roads north of us until we spoke with rangers in Canyon Village and even then it sounded like a couple of mud slides and some road damage. We actually drove on one of the roads just prior to being closed down just south of Canyon Village. The park rangers had one lane open and flagged us thru in what looked like earthquake damage. We were not near a river or stream, no flooding, and yet the road had buckled up with a large crack in the opposite lane. Driving by we were completely caught off guard and wish now that we had filmed it …… I remember seeing a few cars stopped in front of us and before I could tell Megan this might be a bear jam, “take some pictures” we were flagged thru, maybe a little in shock.
@@RemoteFlyFishing That's so nice to read that the people came together and helped out! It's probably a feeling that's more common then most people believe, that during some event like this you feel like it's no big deal, until all of a sudden you realize it is. Gonna be interesting to see part two, saw that you uploaded that one today :) !!
It's interesting how they say damages to the park. Yes there's damage to the human structures, but nature will bounce back with time. Nature always wins if given the time. I think it was good they tried to drain the bay before the flood could have overflowed the area. But you do bring up a good point, how will the fishing populations be after a year or so?
Jackson Lake is in Wyoming, but there is an agreement with the state of Idaho for water rights amounting to the right to extract 30 ft of water from the lake annually. We were told that Idaho has historically only taken 10ft, however because of anticipated severe draught this summer, Idaho choose to take all 30 ft of water this Spring. This draw down occurred a few weeks ago and had nothing to do with preparation for the recent flooding in Yellowstone. Had there been no flooding, Coulter Bay would have been left dry all summer. Thankfully the recent flooding will actually benefit Jackson Lake - like you said “nature will bounce back”. It’s just that no one expected it to bounce back so quickly.
@@RemoteFlyFishing something similar happened down here in GA during hurricane Ivan years ago. They drained a huge amount from the lake leaving over 50% of the docks beached. But the hurricane came about 3 weeks later and filled the lake. The fish population though needed a huge restocking effort though.
Exactly. This is actually what nature does. The destruction, the recovery, has all been going on since the dawn of time.
??? "Nature always wins"???
Think about that. It's kind of a ridiculous assertion on several levels, thusly:
If such events wipe out use of the "park" (so designated by humans), "nature wins." But it is people with their own views of circumstances, who designate it as a "win," or "loss." It's personal assessment by individuals, or groups. Further, "nature" is not a person with personal investment in outcomes. It does not "win", or "lose." It simply IS, in whatever it's state.
The only way human appreciation of it's state has import, is if there is some ultimate creative person / being who could initially, meaningfully designate it so. ...Apart from that, at base level, everything is meaningless, anyway. So, what's the point of ascribing to nature any meaning, or sense of wonder / beauty / awe / devastation / etc..
@@malcolmkirk3343 If nature was not programmed with the inherent instinct to survive it would look like the moon within 100 years or less. All things on this world have a symbiotic relationship. How are you able to determine what is true? Your claim that "everything is meaningless" is refuted by this world's existence. In your worldview, truth is subjectively equated to a world where reality does not exist.
WOW!! I've never been to Yellowstone so thank you both for taking us along. I liked your Dad's play by play. Thank you both for this adventure. Stay safe.
Glad you enjoyed it
Miss, I must say you are beautiful and something special. I can feel it in your voice and your energy. Thank you both for sharing. Good people. Just beautiful. I have never been. I am not being creepy. I just have genuine feelings and you both come across as wonderful and special folks. ❤
Thank you so much. Megan says I'm stuck with her now and wants to know when and where we're going next. Did you watch the other videos of our trip under the Yellowstone Evacuation series? I still have one more video to publish that ends with my dropping Megan off at the airport. We'd been traveling together for a few weeks and it was a 4 hour drive south to the airport in Salt Lake City. It was tough to see her leave and then having to drive the four hours back to Idaho recalling all the sights and things we talked about on the same road back.
Seeing the river like that should have been a sign to get out of that area.
We did -- as did 10,000 other prople did that day!
This is unrelated to the flooding but I really appreciate the high quality voiceover. This is the first video of yours that I have seen. Keep up the great work
Wow, thank you! I posted a video, a year ago, where someone commented they thought it was Christopher Walking speaking the opening narration , here’s the link, ua-cam.com/video/s86KYPLzEi8/v-deo.html
I got a real laugh out of that one. I had to search videos on UA-cam to hear what he sounded like. Maybe I sounded a little …. Not intended!!
I appreciate you sharing your video of your trip through Yellowstone. So fascinating.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love how you and your daughter share this passion and time together. My daughter is just over 1 year old and I cannot wait to take her on adventures!
That is awesome!
This is a great video and you and your daughter are great narrators. Love her attitude and that you were both safe and aware even before evacuated! Subscribed for whenever you get to go back and anything in between.
Thank you so much! We still have a couple of videos to edit and post. Especially the next one where we visited and fished the Warm River, a real gem of a mountain spring stream in Idaho, which we show in the coming attractions on the recent evacuation yellowstone video .Traveling with my daughter Megan is an experience I will always treasure. I wish now that I had set up a camera in the car to capture everything we saw and did.
@@RemoteFlyFishing already saw the next one and that teaser was great! Was supposed to go out fishing with my good friends' kids today but we just got rained out. 😕 Just regular bait fishing, I'm learning (very very *very* beginner) to fly fish. Would love to be able to take a proper trip like this with them someday. Maybe when they stop growing I can gift them waders and a rod and I'll be good enough to teach by then. They're 9 and 12 I have a bit of time. ❤️,
This brings back a lot of memories. Thank you.
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Glad you enjoyed it.....and I recall you mentioned having lived in the area? We just published our third video in this series, fly fishing the Warm River.
Thank you for this most informative video. I enjoyed the story and the beautiful scenery.
Glad you enjoyed it. Check out our follow-up videos: Yellowstone Evacuation continues as News and Reality Sets in (showing the Warm River spring at the end of the video -- which is a preview for the third video I'm editing. I've never seen a spring like this,. It was surreal. Like something you would see in a fantasy - not real.
It’s been about 20 years now since I’ve been to that majestic place. Enjoyed the content & commentary. She has a pleasant disposition. I subbed. Let’s see what other adventures you have. Safe travels.
Couldn't agree more!
That video through Firehole Canyon was unfathomable! I have journeyed that road in four of the last five years and it's not been close to half that level of fury and activity. Glad you two got to enjoy what you did and hopefully it will give you a bit more hunger for the next trip! (And you STILL got a bona fide bison jam...that's an official rite of passage to any visitor!)
Thank you. Then you know that people used to swim in that section of the Firehole River until they shut the swimming area down. Oh, I've been in plenty of bison jams. What's frustrating are the black bear jams when they're not even on the road. OK -this is really funny --- Last year when I was returning from fishing Soda Butte and on the road to Mammoth I got stuck in a long black bear jam, until the rangers showed up and started directing traffic. People had been leaving their cars and walking down this bluff to watch the bear as it walked away with it's two cubs. There was a stream of people walking down and back. about a 100 ft off the road. One of the park rangers had to walk down with them to make sure the bear didn't turn around and cause a panic. As I finally drove past the park Ranger's vehicle I see this rustle in the deep grass on the other side of the Ranger's car. I catch a glimpse of a big black bear walking along the road heading to all these people and they have no idea they're about to be cut off. I give the horn a toot and and figured, well at least the Rangers are there .... and it will probably be the bear that runs away even faster.
We have to keep an eye out for black bears when we go out to the barn to feed the animals at night. I take a flashlight and look for eye shine. But now I also flash the light up the trees as a big male snorted at me in tree to let me know he was there a couple of months ago.
Excellent content, glad I got this recommended! Awesome filming of the landscape, good narrating and overall very nice to see your trip! Glad everything went well for you!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the kind words.
I remember when I was about 12 my dad took me camping to a rive that had stocked trout. I fished for days right behind where we were camping and never caught a single one. Over night it started raining hard and flooded parts of the road downstream so we couldn't leave to do other things. I got board and decided to fish the muddy flooded river. In about 45 minutes I caught 3 trout. How they could even see my bait is still beyond me. That said, next time don't let a flooded river stop you from fishing if you can do it safely. You may end up pleasantly surprised like I did.
The trout could likely smell your bait is my guess, and when fishing in murky water wtih artificial flies the trick is to use dark colored flies as these are more visible to trout.
Thank you for the video of the Firehole in flood. I'm an old park bum, and it's amazing to see the difference from my memories.
You are welcome. Check out my Yellowstone Fly Fishing videos in June of 2021 to see more
Really good video. You told the flood story very well. Thanks
Glad you liked it
This was a really great video. Thanks!!!
You are so welcome!
Awesome video ! Thank you !
Glad you liked it!
Yes you finally posted
Yes and more videos to follow, including a gem of a river in Idaho. Unfortunately, our five days in Yellowstone ended in being evacuated.
Yes more videos
I did enjoy your video. Thanks for sharing, and hi from England!
Thank you Jan - I'm glad you enjoyed it! I just posted our follow-up video as we needed a change in plans after learning of Yellowstone's extensive damage. With a brief preview of our journey exploring and fishing in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!💜🙏🏻
Thanks for watching!
Fairly certain I see our rental van in West Yellowstone as you guys were exiting the park. We were unfortunately not let in after a 2 day RV drive out there, so we headed down to Grand Teton early. Got to play in the snow a bit before leaving though. Thanks for sharing all the footage of what it looked like during this crazy occurrence.
Thank you for watching! and glad to hear you opted for Jackson Hole. That's my wife's favorite place.
It was certainly an interesting experience. We will need to go back eventually to have our fishing trip
Hopefully
My husband and I were there that day, too! It was our last day but we got up early from Old Faithful Inn and went on 89 to Mammoth Hot Springs around to Canyon Village and then out the West Gate. Saw the bison on the road as you did! Did not know of the park closing until we got home the next day. You might have been the car ahead!! Crazy!!
Thanks for the info, sounds like you were ahead of us. The road to Mammoth Hot Springs was closed (by Norris) when we drove by, and when we arrived at Canyon Village the park rangers told us there was a mud slide on the northern loop road from Mommoth to Canyon and was now also closed.
Thanks for sharing...! 😊
Thanks for watching!
That looks like a beautiful part of the world. We may get there one day if we’re lucky. Ty for the video 👍🏼🇦🇺
It really is! The park is celebrating its 150 year since its founding. Unfortunately we were not able to make it up to the Lamar Valley section where you often can find herds of bison numbering in the hundreds. We were lucky to see a mother grizzly nursing three cubs in Jackson Hole (just south of Yellowstone), but they wandered off into the woods before I could break out the camera with the zoom lens.
Whooa.....Firehole river on fire!
New subscriber here. Great videography. The landscape is so …. Emotional. No words can express. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for the kind words. We really wanted to get to the Lamar Valley where the landscape changes to rolling hills and grasslands and where herds of bison number in the hundreds. An area referred to as America’s Serengeti. I have video from the Spring of 2001 where I filmed a large herd of bison crossing the river. I worried that the baby bison might not make it up the steep muddy side, only to be surprised at how quickly the babies scampered up the bank, waiting and then running to greet their moms, wagging their little tails. I should post this video.
Thanks for sharing. 👍
Thank you too
Love the shots of inside the Old Faithful Inn. As a family we took an out west trip that included staying three nights at the Old Faithful Inn. Our room had a view of the geyser so we could watch it from our room. That was June of 1960. The park traffic was as light back then as what you experienced as they closed down the Park.
You would be very surprised to see the size of the parking lot today. Sounds like you had a very nice room.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I worked at the Snow Lodge the winter of 1972. It was so fun. We cross country skied and took snowmobile rides right past the bison. That swish swish gliding right past those giant animals was cool. It was one of the best experiences of my life. My Dad took us to the park a lot. I grew up in Livingston. I'm so thankful I did. I live in Big Timber now and the flooding continued east, washing homes and even bridges out. It was epic.
Wow, that must have been a great experience. Like going back in time. I like Livingston and spent a night there last year before heading into the park.
I've been on that road many times and even been on it during the fires back in the mid 80's...impressive how it grew back, and amazing how flooded the river is
I wonder how much longer the park will keep open these little "one way" cliff hugging roads like the ones that follow the Firehole River or Virgina Cascades, even though I didn't hear of any damage to them.
Great video. Loved the calm narration.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember learning about Yellowstone in elementary school for science class, and learning about the geysers. Apparently Old Faithful, is actually a super volcano and it could erupt at any moment.
You are more than just right, not only Old Faithful….A good percentage of the entire park is the Super Volcano, 35 miles wide and 50 miles long. For fun, here is a link that shows a graphic of the recent and past Yellowstone eruptions, which outlines their crater walls or caldera. yellowstone.net/geology/yellowstone-caldera/ The purple outline marks the crater walls of the last eruption, 640,000 years ago. That’s a good education you got. I had to buy one of those children books in the Yellowstone gift shop to understand the geological history of the park…..when I was in my mid thirties.
Thanks for sharing, it sure gives an idea of how much flooding was going on, in areas that don't flood, my, my......
Very true
Thank you for the information.
Our pleasure!
Thanks for sharing Awesome footage of your trip for us that can nolonger travel because of age.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I actually started doing these videos for a friend of mine who do to age and injuries could no longer make it out of his house (unless for doctor visits). I told him I was going to take him hiking up to these remote trout ponds in the White Mountains, and he laughed saying he had trouble just walking down his front steps. I didn't tell him I had purchased a GoPro camera until I sent him my first video. I made these early videos as if we were walking and talking to each other along the trail.
Bison heading for the high ground. They know what’s going on
I was thinking an old bull knowing the wolves don't come into the campgrounds ....
I really enjoyed your travel videos. thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Two more from this series, which I need to edit and release - but fixing car and other home projects keep getting in the way!
@@RemoteFlyFishing oke.. I'm waiting for the next series.
Great video! My heart jumped when you camped and didn’t back in the vehicle.
Visibility was pretty bad when we first pulled in. The pavement area and fire pit were under a puddle.
Yep, high water everywhere. Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone, Clark Fork of the Columbia, Bitterroot, Flathead, Kootenai, and more. Reminded me of calling my folks in western MT from north Idaho, when we hear on the news warnings of winter storm weather for Washington, Oregon, and the Dakotas. "They must ignore Idaho and Montana because we just deal with it." This year, everyone's been experiencing heavy rains and hotter temperatures, extremes...
im glad to see that you guys are safe.
Thank you. We never would have driven up on that cliff road in Firehole Canyon or on any of the roads had we known and seen the damage the NPS helicopters recorded later that day. I included some of these NPS videos we saw on TV that night in our follow-up Yellowstone Evacuation video. We knew then there was no way the park would open up in time for us to return after seeing that damage.
53 years ago was our outing to Jellystone and Yogi and Bo Bo, it was 30 degrees in June [about the same date as this flooding event].
Thank god no one had to pass away. And that you and your family made it thur something that could help takin everyone you love
Credit to the park rangers. 10,000 visitors were evacuated safely that day.
Never been to America but thank you for the tour.
You're welcome!
Nice photography, Megan. Never having been to Yellowstone, I enjoyed the scenery.
Glad you enjoyed it! Megan is very artistic. She's a cosplayer. She posts her own pictures and cell phone videos. She was really hoping to do some painting while we were in Yellowstone.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING YOUR VIDEO. I USE TO DO THE NEWS ON YT THROUGH THEIR LIVE CAMERA, BUT THEY CUT THAT OFF. I'D OFTEN WONDERED HOW THAT LODGE REALLY LOOKED, AND YOU SHOWED IT. THANK YOU, NOW I KNOW. LOL I'M IN KENTUCKY. TC
Thank you!
Thank you for the nice views and explanations. That was a nice treat watching your adventure. The inside of the lodge was amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it
The geyser basin that has Grand Prismatic Spring and Excelsior Geyser is called Midway Geyser Basin.
Correct
Megans adorable! Love the videos btw!
Thank you!! 😊 She also loves going to sports games and took me to a baseball game and a football pre-season game recently, where she told everyone she thought it funny how I yelled at the referees when they made bad calls with others in the stands. I told her I also yell at them when I’m watching the game alone on TV, at least now they can hear us!
Thank u for shareing
Thanks for watching!
Very well done video.
Thank you very much!
There is an emergency channel you can listen to. Great video.
What is it?
One of my favorite things about Yellowstone is how the rivers are all these slow, meandering gentle stream sort of rivers. Seeing them angry like this is unnerving. That's just a lot of water.
I agree. It was unnerving. Interesting to experience, but disappointing that we had to leave and not enjoy all the park has to offer under normal conditions, relaxing next to a slow, meandering gentle stream. Next time we're going in the fall!
Majestic view!
It is! Thanks for your comment
Thank you for making this video it’s so pure and clear and everything just looks so amazing thank you because I always wanted to see something like this your video is unique. I’m a semi truck driver over the 48 states and don’t get to see every single piece of the country but with your video I can see another piece that I haven’t seen before thank you so much God bless you and many more travels and health to you all
You're welcome. My videos are about exploring and experiencing interesting places to go fishing, and then sharing the expereince. Sometimes, like this video, we don't catch fish - you never know what you're going to find unless you go there. It's more about the story and experience than just catching fish. Although I like catching fish!
Thankyou for being a truck driver, keeping America on track. You are our backbone, we are indebted to you. Once again Thank You.
@@pamelalagerquist1935 That’s the only reason I’m in trucking still and will continue to be thank you so much I really appreciate you God bless you
EEK! Was there 11 years ago. Beautiful late September weather. About 2 weeks head of the snow!
I think my next trip to Yellowstone will be in the fall. Listening to elk mating calls, fly fishing for big browns on their way up the Madison to spawn. And becuase the last two years in June were so unpredicable. Heat wave and no rain for a month by the middle of June in 2021. And the complete opposite in 2022....
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Your dad seems like a great guy
I came from a video where a guy was literally stuck inside a canyon during a flash flood and that was what I expected this to be but still that was an insane flashflood
Nope, not us. I hope you liked the video, just the same
Love you father and daughet♥️♥️♥️👍
We're like peas in a pod
Hello friend, nice to meet you. I enjoyed your video. Have a happy day today.🇰🇷👏😄👍
Thank you! You too!
I've been twice and want to go back. We stayed at Mammoth and camped at the same place you did the next. We were on motorcycles both times.
You are braver than me. There are times when Bison are moving in one lane with cars traveling in the opposite direction in the other lane. That's pretty close.
03:05 'little oneway road' to me over here in the netherlands,it's wide enough to fit a semi in both directions,not a small road at all.
Beautiful.
It was surreal to be in Yellowstone with little traffic and few people, like going back in time.
Very beautiful place I'd love to go there someday
You should!
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Thanks for sharing your video beautiful place its sad what happened after to this beautiful places
Glad you enjoyed it
Surreal, it's like watching a movie. Must've been unreal to experience! Glad you were safe!
Thank you for the kind words! I kept thinking we would not be evacuated, as we heard the people were at the major lodges, until we pulled back into Madison Campground - packing up and wonder if we could even find a place to stay for the night - with 10,000 other people evacuating the park.
Watching your video I noticed a few familiar items in our dash cam video, like that white jeep that turned left in front of you and people at or walking to the Yellowstone entrance sign as you left. I realized we were in that long line of cars behind you when you were waiting for the bison to cross the road. I think we were probably 20-25 cars back. When I saw that jeep in your video turn left into viewing area I remembered seeing the same jeep there in our video.
We were maybe 7 cars back? So at least we could see what was causing the jam. I wonder if some people were worried that the road was flooded.
@@RemoteFlyFishing We were so far back we could not see what the cause was and thought it was just a traffic jam of people trying to leave the park. We went all the way to Pocatello ID for the night. We talked to a family the next morning. They were hiking, got back to their cabin after sunset and were told to leave. They got caught in the rain storm and sat on the road for over 2 hours. They finally made it into Pocatello about 4am.
I hate setting up camp in the rain! Looks like a great trip though.
I agree. And to make matters worse the rain started to come down so hard we ended up having to cover our tent with our ground tarp, as did everyone around us. It was a great tri, fortunately we got at least one day in the park before it shut down.
Glad y'all made it out though. Stay safe
Thanks. We did what the park rangers told us to do. They deserve the credit. After seeing the damage the flooding casused on the local news stations later that night we were surprised no one lost their lives.
I was there for the flood …we were in the last group out . The rivers were taking out roads, and we were redirected twice ..
I’m surprised they let us in the night before as the flooding was pretty bad, but I guess at that point the roads at the north gate and northeast gate hadn’t washed out and collapsed. It was weird driving around and not seeing many, if any, cars. And without cell phone service (except at some of the lodges) we had no idea that most of the park had already been evacuated. We were told to return to Madison Campground and pack up - and it was pretty clear that most people had already left. Where did you finally end up evacuating from (gate) , and where were you staying? Were you up in Mammoth?
Looks like perfect camping weather to me. Two shots of Jim beam at 12 noon.😎
needed for those cold, rainy days!
And I was worried I wasn't gonna see any bison....so fucking relatable to me on any safari ever.
How can they say this is a once in a 500 year flood when we've only discovered Yellowstone 200 years ago and it only became a park less than 150 years ago
Yeah, we wondering this as well. We even heard one news report saying it was the worst in 1,000 years. So we started wondering how do they know this, thinking maybe sediment from the rivers might be embedded in the cliff walls? After a few people asked this question I did a google search and this is what I learned. Turns out it was a USGS Report released publically and picked up by the press. USGS uses a probability model for predicting flooding events. To build a model like this my guess is it uses river stream flow data that may have been collected over longer periods of time. The report then states the collection of stream flow data from three sites on the Yellowstone River for over 100 years , as well as other data sources. The report also references developing prehistoric data collection methods. This recent flooding was so much greater than the last two major flooding events (in 1918 and more recently in the 1980's?) that it received a 0.2 percentage chance of occurring. I recall reading where one stream flow gauge's high mark (on the Lamar River?) from flooding in the past was 32,000 cfs, and on June 13th the gauge recorded 50,000 cfs.
Such a beautiful place. Still never been, and I live in the southwest 😅 one day tho... I noticed there looked like tailings on the mountains - were they mined in the past?
You have a good eye! According to Doug MacDonald, a professor at the University of Montana - who spent 14 summers excavating in Yellowstone: “Native Americans were the first hard-rock miners in Wyoming and it was arduous work,” says MacDonald. “We’ve found more than 50 quarry sites on Obsidian Cliff, and some of them are chest-deep pits where they dug down to get to the good obsidian, probably using the scapular blade of an elk. Obsidian comes in a cobble [sizable lump]. You have to dig that out of the ground, then break it apart and start knapping the smaller pieces. We found literally millions of obsidian flakes on the cliff, and we see them all over the park, wherever people were sitting in camp making tools.” MacDonald's team dug up two 3,000-year-old obsidian projectile points and a 11,000-years-old Clovis point. We didn't drive past Obsidian Cliff. The road was closed off before we got there. I doubt Native Americans only focused on Obsidian Cliff, as obsidian is a form of glass created by volcanic activity and there was certainly plenty of that in Yellowstone! Also, Gold was discovered north and northeast of the park, around the time the park was founded. And while the U.S. Army was present at the time the park was founded and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers actually improved roads in Yellowstone used by miners and their wagons - I couldn't find anything that spoke to gold mining in the park other than the U.S. purchasing a gold mine on the northeast border to put a halt to the sever polluting of Soda Butte Creek. I believe you spotted
@@RemoteFlyFishing so the natural resources normally exploited by humans is deliberately being left in order to protect the Park. That's great to hear. Just shows what can be done where there's the will to do it.
I'll have to search out footage of what Yellowstone rivers look like normally. Here in Ireland we're used to our rivers rising and falling fairly quickly after heavy rain. There's an instinct to stay away from swollen rivers, apart from that it's just normal. Interesting to see the lakes formed on flood plains there.
Wow I watched the whole thing that was crazy
The next crazy thing was finding a place to stay for the next 4 nights and coming up with fun things to do, which Megan on her cell phone was great at, knowing that 10,000 other people were wondering the same thing. We met families at places we went - and never heard a single word of frustration. We've received feedback from people who were only a few cars behind us, stuck in the bison jam, and who recognized their cars in our video. Small world. And as it turned out, there are so many great places to visit outside the park! I previously posted a continuation video 0f our evacuation journey, and an hour or so ago published the third in our Yellowstone Evacuation series ....
I felt so sorry for those people living out there. In a way, I kinda wished Lake Mead should have had this in order to rise the lake back up.
Especially the businesses in Gartner and Livingston Montana -- there is going to be a lot of lost revenue. I heard it might be a year before the North entrance reopens. And have you heard about Salt Lake?
beautiful
Thank you! 😊
Pretty wild to see.
I fly fished the Mad last July but never could imagine seeing it that high.
Better flash floods than forest fires.
It did look like a lake in places. I fished the Madison in June last year at teh confluence of the Gibbon and Firehole, and could have easily waded across
And the raven... 👌
Probably waiting for a handout and we were the only car for miles. I don't feed wild animals and will take my wife's bird feeders in at night as it's not safe to walk out to the barn at night with bears around. Now my wife is feeding this big male turkey that follows her around like a pet. I keep telling her that turkeys are dangerous, and come to thinkg about it, to stop sweet talking to moose.
@@RemoteFlyFishing It´s better not to feed you´re right. We have ravens here that throw nuts on the streets waiting for cars to crack them and we have a sparrowhawk you won´t believe... he flys threw our bird feeder and catches other birds... so much for theorie! ;) Such an unbelievable nature environment over the atlantic!!
Well at least you guys are safe, maybe next time!
Excellent video I can remember that in when I was about 7 years old or I pick it up so neat cool or back some memories thank you camping what is there a fee for that or is that free?
Thank you, there is a fee. I believe it is $30/day for camping and a fee for entering the park. I have one of those life-time national park passes, which cost me a one time payment of $80, so I don't have to pay the enterance fee for any national park and my camping fee is $15/day, or half the cost if it gets increased at some future date.
@@RemoteFlyFishing thank you for that reply I'm going to look into it the one of them pay one time passes sounds like it will pay off I'm ready to do some traveling in my life thank you again.
Beautiful country
It really is!
Why were they closing????? Ok thank you for why.😮😮😮😮😮
I grew up near the park and I'm very familiar with it. The amount of water shown in this video is staggering.
It really was. When we drove in on the afternoon of the 12th, and along side the Firehole River and then over the bridge crossing the Gibbon River it looked very flooded - but not so bad that people weren't fishing. I actually thought I might head down to the Madison, next to where we were camping, but the rain was coming down so hard we ended up covering our tent with our ground tarp -- like everyone else. That next morning the rivers looked as though they had doubled in size, and obviously throughout the day continued to rise.
Not sure they've been keeping records for 500 years there. We haven't been here that long. Pretty sure it's happened long before we got here and built all the infrastructure. We notice it more because the infrastructure gets destroyed. Several years ago they got record snowfall. I saved the photos from the park service. It's all cyclical. El Nino and La Nina and many other cycles that happen regularly on 100 year cycles. Some more; some less. It may not be normal, but it's not abnormal either. Glad you got out safe.
Thank you. I decided to google it, as I was now also curious. Clearly no one has been recording for 500 years. The USGS has been recording for 100 years and released a report that the media compnies all picked up that is based on collected data and probability calculations that this was a 1 and 500 year event. The report does go on to say, "The analyses used to calculate these probabilities uses data that the USGS and others have collected. Other techniques are being developed that use prehistoric data to determine what streamflows were before humans began recording data. These analyses can give more perspective to how rare these types of high flow events are."
We ate Byson at the Sun Dance, ooh and elk too. Strange they are closing the park.
Both loop roads were opened to the public on July 2d. The only roads, to my knowledge, that are still closed are the north and northeast enterances.
The south loop was opened to the public a couple of week eariler ... with the north loop opening on July 2nd.
that was on my B-Day when im turned 40
Happy Birthday
Any word on the flooding potential this year given the high snowpack?
I don’t believe a heavy snow melt will cause bad flooding. It would be nice if this happened every year. The problem last year was the tropical warm front that hit in June, which not only brought a lot of rain, but also accelerated the snow melt over a shorter period of time. For the latest information on fishing conditions, Blue Ribbon Flies publishes a newsletter - and if you can wade and fish the rivers in the area - you’re OK for everything else
Great video quality - were you using a gimbal? Surprised Dad didn’t pull over for the babies!
No, it's the lastest version of the GoPro. All of the new action cameras have built-in stabilization and horizon leveling. I have used gimbals in the past, and they are smooth, but do nothing to prevent the up and down motion when walking, which this GoPro 10 does a better job of - when it recognizes a horizon. If I pulled over for baby bison shots in the herds we drove by ....well, there's a reson why Megan works the camera and I drive. Just kidding.