Its still to my mind one of the top five beautiful places on earth. We Aussies have a lot of beauty in our region and country but I will never forget spending christmas in Yosemite in 1995. It was a true winter wonderland and its a credit to the US Government for this first national park in the USA. Honestly, I could live out my days in perfect happiness there, but thats impossible.
@@willoughby1888 I'm moving to Portland, Maine (from the other Portland!) in May and will be spending several days in Yosemite on our long, winding path across the country.
U can live out ur days there at Yosemite! Get a job at the park in concessions or something! Unless ur already past the working age limit. Lol but it’s something to think about. 😂
Phenomenal! Absolutely phenomenal. Imagining the Ahwahnechee having their minds blown just like us by these types of floods centuries ago. I've never seen Horsetail that full. Thanks again for the wild, wild imagery!
We had a giant rainfall and snow storm at Christmas 1964 when I worked in the Grand Dining Room of the Ahwahnee Hotel. It rained so hard that the Valley became one giant lake, the hotel was sandbagged, we were cut off completely from civilization. It stopped for a few days, we had supplies brought in, then it snowed and snowed and again we were isolated from the rest of the world at Christmas. But we had the Bracebridge Dinner, the opera singers sang "O Holy Night," and a large bear climbed a tall snowdrift at the far end of the dining room, looking down upon us through the tall window. An adult Shirley Temple and her family spent the holidays with us at the hotel, as they always did in those days. A most memorable Christmas for us all.
Silas Cousteau me too. I was conceived there (according to my mom), married there, visited there almost every year of my life, worked there one summer, and told family they have to throw my ashes off top of Half Dome hahaha!
Willie we were there on Wednesday and it was super sunny and great. Luckily for us we even hiked to the top of the Upper Yosemite Falls. Unforgettable experience
I'm still seeing the beauty and magic of This Piece of Heaven. Gracias for sharing, all your videos are great. They bring me great memories and I can dream to go back again.
What a beautiful place and all the water just added to it. I have never had the opportunity to go there and most likely never will so thank you for the video 🌧️ 🌲
I've been here & never thought it could flood like this! Such a beautiful place. Given another opportunity I sure would love to be here again! Thank you for all your hard work!
Amazing! My only visit to the park was in January 2014...in the middle of severe drought! Yosemite falls was barely a trickle. It's such a dynamic place, can't wait to go back! Thanks for sharing:)
Wonderful video of nature at work. We often forget that much of the formation and nourishment of nature is by the flow water. Looking forward to visiting in early summer.
I pray no one was hurt, and low land animals made it to higher grounds. That water roared in with a force. Rain is a beast. This video was so calming, just the sound of the water flowing, and the majestic vistas.
So I love California. Drove there in a 2006 Mustang gt in 2017. One place that I didn't get a chance to see was Yosemite. So, my mom turned 70 in January of 2020, and for her birthday I flew her to California to see family and the beauty of the Golden State. We went to Lake Tahoe, gambled on the Nevada side. Muir woods and Alcatraz island on her birthday. But the one place that just blew me away was Yosemite valley. It just snowed 2 days before and words can't describe the beauty of this place in the winter. Can't wait to get back, if you've never been there......GO!!!
As a child and a young teenager I lived in Calif app 70 miles from Yosemite. My last visit to Yosemite was in 1964. Now I live in the Southern US. It is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to return. I watch video's of Yosemite all the time and LONG to be young enough to return again.
Please post more! I love my national parks :) They are our national treasure and we must protect them. I am moving to Oregon soon, and I can't wait to start hitting the trails in the West Coast.
bowjangles510 late August September it starts to slow down and the crowds are not as big as they are in the summer time. i worked there in 04.I miss this place.
I just came across this video, then I checked the photos on my computer to see which dates I had visited Yosemite in 2018. Turns out I was in Yosemite Valley the very next weekend (Sunday, April 15) with my wife, my son, and his family. Fortunately, the water had receded to the point that it didn't really affect our visit. The waterfalls were sure running strong. I was also in Yosemite Valley on January 1, 1997, with my son and younger daughter. This was the time of the famous Pineapple Express weather system that flooded the Valley even more than this event in 2018. We went to Yosemite so the kids could play in the snow. When it started to rain, we decided to leave. When we got home to Fresno, we found out that the Valley had closed due to rising flood waters sometime during the two hours it took us to drive home. The news that night focused on the group of nuns that were now trapped in Yosemite Valley. We had seen them earlier having a snowball fight.
thank you, Kristin and all staff for sharing this awesome experience and keeping our park beautiful and safe. I like the footage of the little water critter that looked like a tiny river otter. Pika?
One of the most beautiful places I have ever been. But even with the flooding it's still a beautiful place. My hats off to the National Park Service for maintaining and protecting it as well as they do.
Bubba Warbucks The park is going to be really green this year! ' hi BW... it is a natural earth weather that way... this park will be drought = dry = hot this summer season... easily firebrush = firewild...
0:45 is just mind blowing cause I came here in 2018 during the heat wave. That area where the water was rushing was just a trickle compared to this, I had no idea the water could get so high. There were people all over the rocks below the bridge and around the floor of the falls
It's so beautiful and I'm thoroughly upset that I'll most likely never be able to visit. _I could watch this all day._ Thank you for sharing this amazing part of our Country and World.
I hope the flooding damagers weren't terribly extreme, but this was greatly needed based on some videos I've seen from the park over the last few years. Glad Yosemite Falls will live once again
I remember the water lapping at the windows of the little house above the Lewis Memorial Hospital/now clinic when i was a kid in 1956 or 57. But then there were only the 1000 winter residents in the valley and everyone worked together to provide for the park. Still and all, the best place on earth!
I’m so exited to go now! I’m going to Yosemite this summer and it usually is very dry and luckily last year they had the water falls flowing. Last year there was a rain and thunder storm when I was camping and that made it some what green, but a flood would make it super green!🐻 🌲💦
was there this time last year... they had major snow pack that didnt melt- tioga pass closed due to snow for something like 2 years. thats alot of snow/water.... wow!
Wooow!!! Did Yosemite creek still have 3 branches, or did they merge into one? Just imagining, how gigantic Bridalveil creek had to be. Do you have any footage of it?
We didn't start documenting streamflow in Yosemite until just about when John Muir died, but flooding did occur during his time. A few years before Muir arrived, there was massive flooding in California (December 1861-January 1862) that may have been much more significant than any of the recorded floods in the 20th or 21st centuries.
I was just there at the end of Jan. So disappointed that Mirror Lake was dried up to a pencil thin stream... imagine how it looks now. Haha. Beautiful!
Wow I was there that week and left that day... we were going to climb up to upper Yosemite falls that day thank gosh we had the opportunity to do it before!
I miss Yosemite .grandma was a seamstress for all rangers uniforms. My cousin and would go every summer in the 70's and stay at her house across from the creek.
is gold panning with a gold pan allowed in yosemite anywhere? not wanting to go near hydrothermal stuff, just recreational panning for fun. im an old woman and cannot do much anymore.
Its still to my mind one of the top five beautiful places on earth. We Aussies have a lot of beauty in our region and country but I will never forget spending christmas in Yosemite in 1995. It was a true winter wonderland and its a credit to the US Government for this first national park in the USA. Honestly, I could live out my days in perfect happiness there, but thats impossible.
The first national park is yellowstone
@@augustingervasio3269 That qualifies too.
@@willoughby1888 I'm moving to Portland, Maine (from the other Portland!) in May and will be spending several days in Yosemite on our long, winding path across the country.
U can live out ur days there at Yosemite! Get a job at the park in concessions or something! Unless ur already past the working age limit. Lol but it’s something to think about. 😂
@@inthecouchproductions8103 are you there now? They freaking limited the amount of passes this year.
Thanks to everyone at Yosimite, and the entire NPS, for all your hard work. Your efforts are deeply appreciated.
Phenomenal! Absolutely phenomenal. Imagining the Ahwahnechee having their minds blown just like us by these types of floods centuries ago.
I've never seen Horsetail that full.
Thanks again for the wild, wild imagery!
Bryce Breslin that's exactly what I was thinking.
Mind blowing now AND back then!!!
Nice camera work, nice steady footage, a joy to watch without getting watery eyes. This footage gets the message across.
We had a giant rainfall and snow storm at Christmas 1964 when I worked in the Grand Dining Room of the Ahwahnee Hotel. It rained so hard that the Valley became one giant lake, the hotel was sandbagged, we were cut off completely from civilization. It stopped for a few days, we had supplies brought in, then it snowed and snowed and again we were isolated from the rest of the world at Christmas. But we had the Bracebridge Dinner, the opera singers sang "O Holy Night," and a large bear climbed a tall snowdrift at the far end of the dining room, looking down upon us through the tall window. An adult Shirley Temple and her family spent the holidays with us at the hotel, as they always did in those days. A most memorable Christmas for us all.
My favorite place on the planet.
Silas Cousteau me too. I was conceived there (according to my mom), married there, visited there almost every year of my life, worked there one summer, and told family they have to throw my ashes off top of Half Dome hahaha!
Silas Cousteau where is this place ?
@@soulmelodies California
Great video. Well shot. Super informative. We missed that by 1 day. We left on Thursday. Keep up the good work!
Willie we were there on Wednesday and it was super sunny and great. Luckily for us we even hiked to the top of the Upper Yosemite Falls. Unforgettable experience
I left when it started raining, I love the rain but I felt unsafe because it was hard to see with all the rain
I'm still seeing the beauty and magic of This Piece of Heaven. Gracias for sharing, all your videos are great. They bring me great memories and I can dream to go back again.
Wow, crazy flooding! Visited Yosemite in September 2017. Thanks for posting!
Great video. Very informative. A lot of recovery work there, thanks for all your effort.
What a beautiful place and all the water just added to it. I have never had the opportunity to go there and most likely never will so thank you for the video 🌧️ 🌲
Hmm... your video of the flood only just rotated to my channel's homepage. I'm glad it did as I had not heard about the flooding.
Thanks bunches!
I've been here & never thought it could flood like this! Such a beautiful place. Given another opportunity I sure would love to be here again! Thank you for all your hard work!
Amazing! My only visit to the park was in January 2014...in the middle of severe drought! Yosemite falls was barely a trickle. It's such a dynamic place, can't wait to go back! Thanks for sharing:)
Wow -- Lower Yosemite Falls! Thanks for posting this incredible footage.
Wonderful video of nature at work. We often forget that much of the formation and nourishment of nature is by the flow water. Looking forward to visiting in early summer.
I pray no one was hurt, and low land animals made it to higher grounds. That water roared in with a force. Rain is a beast. This video was so calming, just the sound of the water flowing, and the majestic vistas.
So I love California. Drove there in a 2006 Mustang gt in 2017. One place that I didn't get a chance to see was Yosemite. So, my mom turned 70 in January of 2020, and for her birthday I flew her to California to see family and the beauty of the Golden State. We went to Lake Tahoe, gambled on the Nevada side. Muir woods and Alcatraz island on her birthday. But the one place that just blew me away was Yosemite valley. It just snowed 2 days before and words can't describe the beauty of this place in the winter. Can't wait to get back, if you've never been there......GO!!!
Excellent footage! Thank you! Crazy how much water that goes through there!
As a child and a young teenager I lived in Calif app 70 miles from Yosemite. My last visit to Yosemite was in 1964. Now I live in the Southern US. It is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to return. I watch video's of Yosemite all the time and LONG to be young enough to return again.
Thanks ---great video! Yosemite is stunning in all seasons!
Please post more! I love my national parks :) They are our national treasure and we must protect them. I am moving to Oregon soon, and I can't wait to start hitting the trails in the West Coast.
That looks awesome I wish I could've been up there for that. No crowds, no tourists ugh heaven...
bowjangles510 late August September it starts to slow down and the crowds are not as big as they are in the summer time.
i worked there in 04.I miss this place.
Jeffrey Winters I'll make sure to plan a trip in that time frame this year thanks!
Surreal footage. Thanks for posting!
Amazing.... Beautiful but also a reminder as to how powerful nature truly is.... 🌿
Watching this on a stressful day was like taking a pill,
I do truly feel better,
Nice camera footage !!
Wow!!! That is a lot of water!
I just came across this video, then I checked the photos on my computer to see which dates I had visited Yosemite in 2018. Turns out I was in Yosemite Valley the very next weekend (Sunday, April 15) with my wife, my son, and his family. Fortunately, the water had receded to the point that it didn't really affect our visit. The waterfalls were sure running strong.
I was also in Yosemite Valley on January 1, 1997, with my son and younger daughter. This was the time of the famous Pineapple Express weather system that flooded the Valley even more than this event in 2018. We went to Yosemite so the kids could play in the snow. When it started to rain, we decided to leave. When we got home to Fresno, we found out that the Valley had closed due to rising flood waters sometime during the two hours it took us to drive home. The news that night focused on the group of nuns that were now trapped in Yosemite Valley. We had seen them earlier having a snowball fight.
I was there less than a month ago and it was covered in snow everywhere, Yosemite can change so fast into a whole other.
....world.
Do you know when this was?
Wow! We were there about a month ago; beautiful place any time of year. Thx for sharing!
thank you, Kristin and all staff for sharing this awesome experience and keeping our park beautiful and safe. I like the footage of the little water critter that looked like a tiny river otter. Pika?
Vole! Related to mice, they live in the meadows.
Bicyclists had to be loving you at 2:19... smh...
Exactly what I was thinking
word the guy had to motion to the truck to slow down for the driver to get it smh
Rude AF when people are around smh
One of the most beautiful places I have ever been. But even with the flooding it's still a beautiful place. My hats off to the National Park Service for maintaining and protecting it as well as they do.
The park is going to be really green this year!
Yes it will! Nice to see you here, Bubba! ;)
🙋🏻 You pop up everywhere; (CVK).
LOL, I get around.
Bubba Warbucks
The park is going to be really green this year!
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hi BW...
it is a natural earth weather that way...
this park will be drought = dry = hot this summer season...
easily firebrush = firewild...
I'm going in July got reservations for a week man I hope it gets very green
0:45 is just mind blowing cause I came here in 2018 during the heat wave. That area where the water was rushing was just a trickle compared to this, I had no idea the water could get so high. There were people all over the rocks below the bridge and around the floor of the falls
It's so beautiful and I'm thoroughly upset that I'll most likely never be able to visit.
_I could watch this all day._
Thank you for sharing this amazing part of our Country and World.
SSArt98 I hope you do get to visit some day.
Patriot Jefferson Money seems to never be there.
Dont give Up hope!
It’s one of my favorite places I hope you visit
I hope the flooding damagers weren't terribly extreme, but this was greatly needed based on some videos I've seen from the park over the last few years. Glad Yosemite Falls will live once again
Wow, that's crazy. I was a bit scared for the trucks driving through that deep water!
👍😍Amazing. Were the animals ok?
🧐🤔Maybe it’s just me but this video seemed a lot longer than 6 mins 8 secs
Wow. I visited one year later and never knew. Incredible to see the valley under water.
I remember the water lapping at the windows of the little house above the Lewis Memorial Hospital/now clinic when i was a kid in 1956 or 57. But then there were only the 1000 winter residents in the valley and everyone worked together to provide for the park. Still and all, the best place on earth!
Wow!!! What a beautiful landscape! Did anyone go missing right before this storm? (David Paulides missing 411 reference)
WOW.. great video..!! The valley got filled up quickly
Nicely shot video. Thank you for the education
I would love to work at a place like Yosemite. I could be wrong, but how could you get tired of such natural beauty. And working on it’s behalf.
Beautiful! Hopefully not too much damage from the huge volume of water.
WOW! We thought the river was high last June. Jaw-dropping footage.
I am sure nature can deal with the flood, so allow myself to enjoy the video. Magnificent.
Looks peaceful still 🙃
I hope all the elk cows and deer does got their young to high ground in time, the bear too > Since animals know things ahead of Man, surely they did.
It's nature (the rain included). guess everything should be sunny so Californians can go about their life in total ignorance
Spens inthevalley there you go dummy now you get it!
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very beautifully rain, beautifully flood, beautifully storm, beautifully weather
One of the most scenic floods I've ever seen.
So the Central Joaquin Valley of California is going to get water in all the river beds and lake's ponds this summer of 2018?
...did you splashed those bicyclists and pedestrians by mins 2:15 to 2:35 ?
Looks like you guys have your hands full down there, Oregon coast here!
Great footage guys, hope I can get to see this place one day. Greetings from OZ (Australia).
This place is so beautiful, absolutely stunning
So sorry for the flood and the mess it brings but what a beautiful place. On my bucket list to see one day I hope.
I was near the south side that weekend and witnessed an ENTIRE tree floating downstream. Very powerful stuff
WOW! I walked through some of that with a friend, just 4 months ago.. Beautiful even with the floods...
I’m so exited to go now! I’m going to Yosemite this summer and it usually is very dry and luckily last year they had the water falls flowing. Last year there was a rain and thunder storm when I was camping and that made it some what green, but a flood would make it super green!🐻 🌲💦
was there this time last year... they had major snow pack that didnt melt- tioga pass closed due to snow for something like 2 years. thats alot of snow/water.... wow!
Wooow!!! Did Yosemite creek still have 3 branches, or did they merge into one? Just imagining, how gigantic Bridalveil creek had to be. Do you have any footage of it?
I wonder if it flooded in John muirs time like this.
We didn't start documenting streamflow in Yosemite until just about when John Muir died, but flooding did occur during his time. A few years before Muir arrived, there was massive flooding in California (December 1861-January 1862) that may have been much more significant than any of the recorded floods in the 20th or 21st centuries.
Yosemite Are you all okay? Are the animals okay? Will it damage the tree roots? Here's hoping there won't be massive repairs needed.
Amazing! Curious if the water has receded by now April 20th?
Very small flood compared to 1998. I was living in Fish Camp at that time, and my house was flooded out.
Agreed. I was there to map the flood area right after. This is nowhere near that "once in a lifetime" flood.
Wow ! Nature is so beautiful and brutal at the same time here.
Hope nothing got too damaged , water is a powerful force @ 5:48 surfing Yosemite Style !
I was just there at the end of Jan. So disappointed that Mirror Lake was dried up to a pencil thin stream... imagine how it looks now. Haha. Beautiful!
Wow!!!! That sure is a lot of water. Still such a beautiful park.
That “Superintendent’s Bridge” almost went down stream!! And some wonder what a “flood plain” is...basically the flat parts of the Park are just that.
Even flooded like this, it still looks amazing.
Great video, and excellent idea to close the park!
Nice, we used to live close to Yosemite park when I was a kid. Would love to go back some day!!!
Wow I was there that week and left that day... we were going to climb up to upper Yosemite falls that day thank gosh we had the opportunity to do it before!
Having never been there, I'd like to see pics of what some of these shots normally look like as this video plays. It would be easy to edit those in.
Wow. I was there in August 2013 and Yosemite Falls didn’t have any water flowing.
thanks! it's good to see around there
Great shots, Kris....Little Melissa muskrat pretty well bedraggled.RK/LK
Richard B King Is that really her name? 😂
Beautiful footage!
Can't wait to go visit Yosemite this summer our family vacation.
A few months before my dad died, he was in merced waiting for yosemite to open back up after the fires.
I miss Yosemite .grandma was a seamstress for all rangers uniforms. My cousin and would go every summer in the 70's and stay at her house across from the creek.
Nice video Park Service! Thank you for the upload...
Amazing footage. It is beautiful, but deadly. Thank you for sharing.
Was this a rare occurrence or does it happen often??
:( I hope a lot of damage wasn’t done! how long does it usually take for the area to be accessible again, if this is a common occurrence?
It's nice that the NPS is making videos, there are so few people today with cameras that take video, and no place to share them. :-0
I LOVE the determination of the guy who's riding a bike through a flood :D
Wow, did not hear about this before. Having been there a few years ago, I can relate to the locations. How did the hotels hold up?
Wow, I was here 3 days before this happened...I had blue skies and lovely weather.
Yosemite Falls was dumping water like it was going outta style
So beautiful. Its my bucket list to visit there
I didn't hear a word about this on the Weather Channel or cable news ? Seems everybody was too busy talking about the other Stormy.
What kind of activities will be permitted at the new Yosemite Valley Lake?
is gold panning with a gold pan allowed in yosemite anywhere? not wanting to go near hydrothermal stuff, just recreational panning for fun. im an old woman and cannot do much anymore.
Stayed 4 nights there last September, the most beautiful place I've ever seen. The cost? Deep breath........$6 per night in Camp 4 campground ; - )
Extraordinary video! How often does this happen?
Hope people stay safe and there isn't any major rock falls from all the rain?
Anymore people go missing? I hear allot of people disappeared from that park.. spooky stuff there..
That place is beautiful...Even flooded...Would be awesome to see it someday ...