This is actually National Park Service housing. It housed several Park Service workers. Just devastating.

It is always risky to build on or near river banks.

@korodski

2 жыл бұрын

Yah

@facitenonvictimarum174

2 жыл бұрын

That's why the local government should not have allowed it. Sue the ba***rds.

@christopherdunlap88

2 жыл бұрын

@@facitenonvictimarum174 the house was built back in 50's. Who you gonna sue?

@facitenonvictimarum174

2 жыл бұрын

@@christopherdunlap88 The government agency that allowed the house to be built in a floodplain that goes back thousands of years.

My heart goes out to all of you

When Hurricane Harvey dropped 54 inches of rain in a few days, our home in Dickinson Texas flooded with 28 inches of water. We lost everything except for 2 pieces of solid oak furniture. My sons letters from boot camp in the Marines, things you can never replace, photo's, VHS tapes of my father graduating at 80 years old as a vet...... heart wrenching. Thank God for that flood insurance. We moved to the rocky Mountains a year later. No more floods for us.

@grahamtuckey5343

2 жыл бұрын

Thack God for the flood

@corrinetaylor7585

2 жыл бұрын

So sorry for your losses I can’t imagine.

@mic4902

2 жыл бұрын

Only wildfires and drought now, right. Good luck.

@Jack51971

2 жыл бұрын

Houston will get them again and Miami...and it will all be falsely called climate change.

@alexapuerta

2 жыл бұрын

@@mic4902 Also flash floods, landslides, dangerous wildlife, blizzards.

Sending love, comfort, and light to the Perez family🙏🏼💖🌌

To discourage more misconceptions this building was at least 50 feet from the waters edge before the flooding. It was built very long ago and it was likely assumed that it would be reduced to splinters long before the river washed away enough land to put it at risk. Edit: its twice the distance from the water that I thought at over 100 feet

@donnamoss9650

2 жыл бұрын

So AS the river KEPT ERODING the bank no idiot in charge of maintaining the Park Service buildings thought it would be a good idea with the millions in the budget to reinforce the bank years ago....

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnamoss9650 no part of that bank fell into the river for decades. 100 feet got washed away within 24 hours during this flood.

@mic4902

2 жыл бұрын

Eh, the Park Service has long since been aware of flood plains, and how water helped shape that very topography that they long since placed such structures on. I wouldn't say that it is as much a misconception, but rather that of a poetic irony for Nature to bring yet another reminder of our impermanence.

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@mic4902 except that building was put up by a guy only known to me as Schmitty.

@facitenonvictimarum174

2 жыл бұрын

*Bullcrap,* you sound like a shill for the corrupt local politicians and developers. And who appointed you as the "misconception discourager?" And you totally lie when you say it should have already been "reduced to splinters," that sounds like a lawyer defending the corrupt local governing agency

I have no clue how you could not anticipate nature being nature. Rivers have challenged their banks since time immemorial.

@mic4902

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the American West is not meant for permanent habitation like we've developed it into. It is truly ironic to see that this was Park Service property, so ill placed.

@stevendoerfler

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but there's risk no matter where you live. Near the ocean or a river? Floods. On a hill? Mudslides. In the southeast? Hurricanes. We all have to balance the risk (as best we can estimate it) against the benefits of a particular place to live. This time, the river's flow was said to be about 50% worse than it had ever been in the past. An awful lot of folks choose to live in homes that would be in peril if they were hit with a 50% worse version of the local and expected calamity. Think about coastal cities and a storm surge 50% worse than any before. In this case, it seems the building was 100 feet from the river, and the bank hadn't moved in a long time. Then it did, very quickly. If 100 feet is too close, how far back is safe enough?

@reidellis1988

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened in Santa Clara, Utah. High End homes ended up in the Santa Clara river. They should never have built houses there. People were saying.. "This hasn't happened in the last hundred years." Wow.

@mic4902

2 жыл бұрын

@@reidellis1988 ..and that's the kicker, they know that it will happen again. Guess who ultimately pays for these losses.. Yep, other policy holders and even the American Public as a whole. What that's worth, I just cannot see value in these locations, as permanent residences, anymore. Nature is telling these people to stay out of certain areas, but we rebuild and rebuild. True and utter insanity.

@richardgadoury8452

2 жыл бұрын

We'll get an executive order to change that..

I know your hearts must be aching, but good to see you still smiling. God bless you all.

The power of water is truly amazing.

Prayers to those families.

@grahamtuckey5343

2 жыл бұрын

Does that make you feel good to say because it does nothing

@vickimeyers2672

2 жыл бұрын

@@grahamtuckey5343 stop being a jerk.

@corrinetaylor7585

2 жыл бұрын

@@grahamtuckey5343 oh it absolutely does something. Prayer changes things!

And they still have smiles on their faces. Amazingly strong people. I guess you have to feel blessed you made it out alive and weren’t swept away in your sleep! ❤️🙏❤️

I need the # to the contractor hew built that home if it's good enough to float down stream it's good enough for me.....

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

The guy who built it passed away probably before I born and this was an old building.

@pablopence2429

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverstar129 dam it survived time and the river hew the hell was this guy... We need to do a movie on him

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@pablopence2429 update I have a name "shcmitty" and my mom thinks he moved away but hes known by all the old timers in gardiner

that's so scary to watch. I have seen that footage several times and it gives me goose bumps Glad all the families are safe.

So sorry to see this lovely home wrecked like this. Hope everyone is okay and they have insurance.

So glad there all ok ❤❤❤❤🙏🏾⚘⚘⚘😊 don't worry God will provide for those who stay faithful 🙏🏾⚘😊

Sad for sure. House probably a little to close to the river. Great view though, while it lasted.

Wow. Prayers for safety and strength ♥️🙏

So sorry for the loss of your home.

Wow. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Prayers

How many times do these poor people have to watch this!!!!!

So sorry for your loss.

That reminded me of 1993 and the Great Flood in Missouri.. Than too houses...vehicules...livestock..went down rivers... Spectacular but so sad.. !

Wow, so sorry 😞

So sad for them.

such beautiful looking country there though

😢Owned by the Park Service.😢

@caseymurphy244

2 жыл бұрын

. Yeah but payed by the taxpayers

@christopherdunlap88

2 жыл бұрын

@@permitfisher this is a stupid comment.

God please keep the people affected safe.

@grahamtuckey5343

2 жыл бұрын

God creates disaster. God please help.

Nice to see Don Rumsfeld got a new TV gig. 👍

God Bless

It was employee housing, sooooo

Do an interview with the homes actual owner. I hope this couple had renters insurance.

@kookietherapy9398

2 жыл бұрын

Gov't Housing.

So weird hearing one of my teachers on the news

WATCHING ABLE TO SAY GOODBYE A GIFT NO ONE WAS PHYSICALLY HURT. ALIVE WITH DREAMS TO DREAM IN REMEMBRANCE OF MEMORY'S PAST..... BEST OF ALL TO LOOK FORWARD ALIVE TO RENEW.....SURPRISES GIVEN & MORE TO COME! THE EARTH GIFTS WE ARE MIRACULOUSLY GRATEFUL FOR CALLED MIRACLES! 🙏

Does anyone know where the water is coming from?? I don't see any rain??..

@vickimeyers2672

2 жыл бұрын

Heavy snowpack in the mountains melting and lots of unseasonal heavy rain, thus elevating and increasing the water flow of the Yellowstone River.

@danstrayer111

2 жыл бұрын

from the sky.

I thought that was apartments / park employees homes. What a bummer!

So sorry this happened to all of you. Is there a GoFundme set up?

@kookietherapy9398

2 жыл бұрын

It was gov't housing, and you believe $40 Billion really went to Ukraine.

Build in a flood plain at your own risk.

Add?

I was lucky went to Yellowstone National Park a week ahead before flood!

4 families lived there too? That’s a lot of people in one home.

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

Its basically a small apartment

@firesidestep4255

2 жыл бұрын

I’d hope so.

@lindamon5101

2 жыл бұрын

Forest Service housing.

@straybullitt

2 жыл бұрын

Probably immigrants. 🤷‍♂️

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@straybullitt its a tourist hot spot, a lot of people from other coutries wind up in town. I knew a couple women fro Bulgaria that would travel out to work for the summer. So sort of yes but no? Though I would say its more complicated.

It came to pass, Unprecedented. 😱

@danstrayer111

2 жыл бұрын

no it isn't.

They lost their home and she's smiling like it's no big deal.

I hope all of them had flood insurance. No matter how beautiful a setting or an excellent purchase price, one should always take into account where the potential home is located.

@GratefulOverlander

2 жыл бұрын

Flood insurance doesn't cover flood zones

@facitenonvictimarum174

2 жыл бұрын

jeeze that's a joke, right?

@vickimeyers2672

Жыл бұрын

@@GratefulOverlander home owners insurance does not cover floods, however flood insurance can be purchased from a National Flood Insurance company.

Hope everyone had good insurance !!

Was this NPS housing or concessioner’s housing? Where, exactly, was it located? I’ve seen this clip several times, but these details are always vague.

@patrickjones8255

2 жыл бұрын

Park employee housing. So NPS I'd guess

@jeanettewaverly2590

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickjones8255 Not necessarily. There are permanent (as opposed to seasonal) employees of the three concessioners that contract with the NPS, in addition to permanent NPS employees. The NPS provides housing (which is NOT rent-free, as some comments are suggesting) for some of these employees. I don’t know about the concessioners, but, if they do, it will probably be in buildings outside of the park boundaries. The location of the doomed structure in the video looks like it’s somewhere outside the North Entrance. If it is, then this would probably be concessioner’s - not NPS - housing. (I realize I’m being obsessive about this, but I used to work as a seasonal ranger in Yellowstone, and not being able to pin this down is driving me crazy.)

@b4peace1

2 жыл бұрын

This house was located below Hwy 89, about 1 mile outside Gardiner, MT, across the street from the Gardiner Rodeo grounds. It was at the end of the driveway into the Yellowstone RV Park.

@jeanettewaverly2590

2 жыл бұрын

@@b4peace1 Thank you! I can sleep now. 🤣

We can rebuild it better stronger and further away from the river . LoL 😂 Really though sorry for the loss of your home 🏡 I hope insurance helps you rebuild

@johnganshow5536

2 жыл бұрын

That was employee housing, I'm sure the National Park Service will take care of them....

@mhughes1160

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnganshow5536 thanks , I don’t listen to all the bla bla bla of every video. LoL 😂

Does anyone doubt God is in control? Not any of us. In case you needed reminding.

@danstrayer111

2 жыл бұрын

yeah. I do. I doubt God has squat to do with a rainstorm.

Gosh, I sure hope these people bought renters insurance.... so devastating.

Why is she smiling? Despite their home is washed out!

@vickimeyers2672

2 жыл бұрын

If one can't smile In the face of adversity, one will live an entire lifetime of sadness.

@mwhitelaw8569

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the tears came while it was going on.

I can't help but wonder and worry about pets in the house. Glad the people are okay.

Thanks for covering this family's story, but I think you have the wrong footage, This is a National Park building.

@JRM410

2 жыл бұрын

It's a house they lived in owned by the NPS because they were working for the NPS.

I Think They Be OK If They Have Flood Insurance

Snowing not Showing!!!!!! Snowing to cool the volcano down?! Dang spell check, it changes what I write by itself! Suspect for sure!

"Speak out". Journalism lingo for "were approached by a news outlet and asked by them to be interviewed where the topics were pre discussed and agreed upon".

Where's the water flow to? California and lake Mead need it.

VERY UNFORTUNATE. VERY SAD. HOPE NOBODY IS HURT. LESSON: DO. NOT BUILD HOUSES, BUILDINGS VERY NEAR RIVERS OR SEAS.

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

It wasnt very close before the flooding

@vickimeyers2672

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverstar129 but it was located in an area long known as a flood plain.

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@vickimeyers2672 that is very much not a flood plane

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@vickimeyers2672 it was even further from the water than I though at over 100 feet

I wonder if they have adequate insurance coverage...

But the view was spectacular.. sorry Charlie

Why are the other news channels saying that building was seasonal housing for Yellowstone employees??

@christopherdunlap88

2 жыл бұрын

Because it is.

@christopherdunlap88

2 жыл бұрын

Some seasonal employees work year round there in a different job.

People build way to close to the river and the ocean these days. They also build in natural water run offs. Pay attention to where you can and cannot build.

Send some of that Water to Lake Mead...... ✌✌

It got swollded and poped it sides and took the dirt an stuff and swoolded off.🌊🏡

When you rebuild build closer to the river bank.

Park service house that is payed for by the Taxpayers. A much nicer place then most of the residents of the state reside in.

She seems awfully happy for having just lost their home...

Well you know its not a good idea to build ur damn home in the flood plain cuz if you do stuff like this will happen

@TatteredToys

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t a flood zone.

And yet these floods ARE IN the Rocky Mountains in Montana.

People reap what sow especially now and coming destroying

Never live close to any water! Never live in the middle of pine trees! Never live on the cliffs of the ocean! Earthquakes, well that’s a hit and miss. 🙃Lol. 🤷🏼‍♀️ stay safe my friends.

@junipiro8387

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for my ignorance, but why should one live in the middle of pine trees? Is it because of forest fires? 🧐

@geraldlundgren8836

2 жыл бұрын

Well that eliminates half the homes in the United States

@cynicalcindy1434

2 жыл бұрын

Pine trees? What’s up with pine trees?

@spiritseeker1932

2 жыл бұрын

@@cynicalcindy1434 if theirs ever a fire! 🙃. Been there done it..

@cynicalcindy1434

2 жыл бұрын

@@spiritseeker1932 Ohhhh! Yes!!! Pine trees close to liberal cities are the most dangerous too! Totally get that! Happy to deal with gators and hurricanes over forest fires!

This was a 5 apartment building.

Why are they so happy tho

They have all been relocated.

Can u reroute all that water down to California please... It's getting ridiculous here.. These fools about to enforce our water use and jackup the water bill...

Why build so close to rivers and river banks? I surely wouldnt

That bridge ruined a nice house boat.

@mwhitelaw8569

2 жыл бұрын

Now that's funny

I wonder are there some schools to teach us to think or predict what would happen in the future and do something about before it happened like build higher bridges construction away from rivers or have a plan to run away of just in case or build support around the rivers it must be something to be done before always before !!!! Just saying

Why would you build next to a river?

Hey Noah, I found a guy to build your next boat.

FIVE other families lived in it too? doesnt look that big to me, hmm

matchbox houses dont stand up to nothing .

Bet they won't build next to a river again

Lesson learned don’t live on a river just like we’ve learned on the coast don’t live on the beach

Probably didn't have flood insurance

Friends don't let friends live in flood plains. Hilarious!

California is drying up we need water

@vickimeyers2672

2 жыл бұрын

Demand that Newsom and his cronies check into how Israel is solving their water crisis.

They need a go fund me account !!

@kookietherapy9398

2 жыл бұрын

Gov't Housing. FJB

@suspendeddisbelief401

2 жыл бұрын

Oh please....why??? Those 'go fund me' pages are a rip off for people with more money than sense!!

I always find it interesting, those who say prayers against something that clearly their God had the Will power to do. Maybe He/She/it is telling you to stop building in disaster prone areas...

@Tipperary757

2 жыл бұрын

Snore.

The good life it's not the last for long time no more free rent for your dogs

Where to go from here? Cancer seems to be downstream.

Living next to a river….who would have ever thought it could wash away.

Thoughts and Prayers.

Who sold you that land in the river

Dont build on river banks

Who owned the house

@lindamon5101

2 жыл бұрын

Forest Service

Every summer in Yellowstone heavy thunderstorms will send a plug of brown muddy water down the Yellowstone river. It screws up fishing downstream for several days til it clears. This big, not normal plug, is today in Sydney, MT. 350 from YNP. It takes days to get downstream. Headed for New Orleans. Normal snowmelt plus heavy rains. Rapid City SD 1972? Big Thompson river Colorado 1976? It happens all over and is never normal. Forgot the climate change hysteria.

That was cool

ok i don’t understand why people building so close to the river ,i’m sorry but that is stupid

I think you just learned a lesson, don’t mess with or think you can out do Mother Nature. I don’t care how much money you have,you will lose.

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody was trying to do that

@Biggestfoot10209

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverstar129 yes they were by building so close to a river.Rivers flood and you can’t stop them if Mother Nature doesn’t want you to. She is more powerful than than any human.

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@Biggestfoot10209 it was 50 feet away from the river before the flooding and the channel there so deep that the water hasn't gotten that high before.

@Biggestfoot10209

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverstar129 you are so clueless, and that river just proved it. 50 feet meant nothing to that river as it just proved it. You build that close to a river you deserve to lose your property. I live 100 yards, that’s 300 feet in case you don’t know and 30 feet above a small Creek and still I take Precautions

@Silverstar129

2 жыл бұрын

@@Biggestfoot10209 i lived there, this is extremely abnormal flooding

He who builds his house on sand or in this case against a major river bank of soil and loose rock without bulkheads is a fool.

@49558201

2 жыл бұрын

its a federal house ...

@ohsweetmystery

2 жыл бұрын

@@49558201 You are further reinforcing the original statement.

@Sarah-lb8cs

2 жыл бұрын

@@49558201 That explains everything 😂

@davedave8602

2 жыл бұрын

According to another comment here, the home when originally built was 100 Ft. away from the river bank.