2012 Montana Conditions, Stoke and Whatev Thread

[Norseman]

another drone shot from Red Lodge

[Norseman]

folks stranded up the E Rosebud

Attachment 418780

[Bunion 2020]

The irony of being in a severe drought and flood at the same time.

[Norseman]

High water levels in the Lamar River eroding the Northeast Entrance Road. by Yellowstone National Park, on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowstonenps/

[NWFlow]

Seeing video now of water well over the road in Yankee Jim. Hydrograph at corwin continuing to climb, but measured discharge down to 48k now (?).

Crazy...

Edit: definitely looks like the Carter's gauge is out.

[Norseman]

Seeing video now of water well over the road in Yankee Jim..

post it up

[CallMeAl]

big Monday

Maybe the idiots who want to build a Glamping op at Gateway on an island in the middle of the river will think 2x.

Given their track record, they probably won't start using common sense any time soon. Just got on my roof to look and he has another 2' of buffer before his land goes under water: Attachment 418792

His island neighbors to the west currently have a river running through their yard. The river has come up 700cfs since I took this photo, probably worse now:Attachment 418795

[NWFlow]

It's a janky video grab of an instagram story or something, but i'll see what i can do.

[CallMeAl]

RIP Tom Miner Bridge:

[anotherVTskibum]

The photos of hillside roads in Yellowstone more than half gone suggest it may be a long recovery. When Irene came through Vermont, most of the bridges and small areas of road damage got put together pretty quickly (many with temp bridges and "fill the hole for now and we'll fix and pave and stuff later"), but when you have a road carved into a hillside and the river takes over the roadbed, there's not much to be done with duct tape; you need to actually rebuild.

If that is the case in Yellowstone and the Cooke to Gardiner road is as hammered as some photos suggest, NPS is going to have its work cut out to get that road fixed well enough to provide winter driving access to Cooke.

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[new yabyum]

Game over on the Slough creek trip.

[plugboots]

Total serendipity, but I moved my Livingston trip from this week to September. My feeds from MT are crazy. Yellowstone Park: closed. It’s ~3 feet over the road in Yankee Jim. Apparently worse is yet to come.

[anotherVTskibum]

https://fb.watch/dDpQCOT5Ss/

NPS helicopter video of Gardiner entrance road, or what's left of it.

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[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I'm east of town in my home office and I've watched a few helos go by in a big hurry towards the east.

[EWG]

https://fb.watch/dDpQCOT5Ss/

NPS helicopter video of Gardiner entrance road, or what's left of it.

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That's unbelievable.

[yeahman]

That's unbelievable.

Seriously. Fucking Armageddon as far as summer in Yellowstone goes.

[anotherVTskibum]

Seriously. Fucking Armageddon as far as summer in Yellowstone goes.

Red Lodge narrowly dodged the wildfire last summer, hammered by flooding this summer, I'm afraid to ask what next year brings.

And who knows what the rest of this summer will look like. Even if the infrastructure damage ends up being manageable, a lot of people are going to be without a place to live for some length of time, which could have serious employee availability implications. Fourth of July is three weeks away, and that's one of the weekends where two good nights waiting tables can pay your rent. If restaurants and bars can't run at capacity, that's going to affect the people who are still working there, too.



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[senior researcher]

More like heaven.

[Norseman]

https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news...in-other-areas

[Bunion 2020]

OK I will admit it makes me a shitty person but if 191 washed out south of Big Sky it would make summer so much nicer. OTOH if it washed out north of Big Sky, well.....

[Yonder_River]

Seriously. Fucking Armageddon as far as summer in Yellowstone goes.

Wow. That's nuts. That road will be closed for a couple years minimum unless they throw everything at it. We have (less important) roads here in WA that haven't been rebuilt even 10 years later.

[Norseman]

Yankee Jim canyon.


https://m.facebook.com/FlyridgelineM...2246016411514/



screengrabs from that vid

[new yabyum]

Wow. That's nuts. That road will be closed for a couple years minimum unless they throw everything at it. We have (less important) roads here in WA that haven't been rebuilt even 10 years later.

Has any one heard about Slough creek campground and Pebble campground in the Lamar valley? This spots were full last night! Hope it's not an "Oh Fuck"

[Norseman]

https://billingsgazette.com/news/loc...5f39986f5.html

[byates1]

Damn. Just went 10 mph from town center in bs to Spanish creek. Basically ppl just looking at the river. Well prob could be a bit more quiet in Yellowstone this summer? Huh.