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.
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
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....
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.
*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
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.
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?
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.
@@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.
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! ❤️🙏❤️
@@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.
@@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.)
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.
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! 🙏
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
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.
"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".
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.
@@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!
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.
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...
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
@@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 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
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...
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.
Yah
That's why the local government should not have allowed it. Sue the ba***rds.
@@facitenonvictimarum174 the house was built back in 50's. Who you gonna sue?
@@christopherdunlap88 The government agency that allowed the house to be built in a floodplain that goes back thousands of years.
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.
Thack God for the flood
So sorry for your losses I can’t imagine.
Only wildfires and drought now, right. Good luck.
Houston will get them again and Miami...and it will all be falsely called climate change.
@@mic4902 Also flash floods, landslides, dangerous wildlife, blizzards.
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
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....
@@donnamoss9650 no part of that bank fell into the river for decades. 100 feet got washed away within 24 hours during this flood.
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.
@@mic4902 except that building was put up by a guy only known to me as Schmitty.
*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.
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.
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?
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.
@@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.
We'll get an executive order to change that..
Sending love, comfort, and light to the Perez family🙏🏼💖🌌
My heart goes out to all of you
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.
Does that make you feel good to say because it does nothing
@@grahamtuckey5343 stop being a jerk.
@@grahamtuckey5343 oh it absolutely does something. Prayer changes things!
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.....
The guy who built it passed away probably before I born and this was an old building.
@@Silverstar129 dam it survived time and the river hew the hell was this guy... We need to do a movie on him
@@pablopence2429 update I have a name "shcmitty" and my mom thinks he moved away but hes known by all the old timers in gardiner
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! ❤️🙏❤️
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.
Sad for sure. House probably a little to close to the river. Great view though, while it lasted.
So glad there all ok ❤❤❤❤🙏🏾⚘⚘⚘😊 don't worry God will provide for those who stay faithful 🙏🏾⚘😊
😢Owned by the Park Service.😢
. Yeah but payed by the taxpayers
@@permitfisher this is a stupid comment.
That reminded me of 1993 and the Great Flood in Missouri..
Than too houses...vehicules...livestock..went down rivers...
Spectacular but so sad.. !
So sorry for the loss of your home.
Wow. Prayers for safety and strength ♥️🙏
Nice to see Don Rumsfeld got a new TV gig. 👍
Does anyone know where the water is coming from?? I don't see any rain??..
Heavy snowpack in the mountains melting and lots of unseasonal heavy rain, thus elevating and increasing the water flow of the Yellowstone River.
from the sky.
Do an interview with the homes actual owner. I hope this couple had renters insurance.
Gov't Housing.
Wow. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
So sorry for your loss.
How many times do these poor people have to watch this!!!!!
God please keep the people affected safe.
God creates disaster.
God please help.
Prayers
So weird hearing one of my teachers on the news
So sad for them.
It was employee housing, sooooo
Wow, so sorry 😞
4 families lived there too? That’s a lot of people in one home.
Its basically a small apartment
I’d hope so.
Forest Service housing.
Probably immigrants. 🤷♂️
@@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.
such beautiful looking country there though
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.
Park employee housing. So NPS I'd guess
@@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.)
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.
@@b4peace1 Thank you! I can sleep now. 🤣
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! 🙏
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
That was employee housing, I'm sure the National Park Service will take care of them....
@@johnganshow5536 thanks , I don’t listen to all the bla bla bla of every video. LoL 😂
Build in a flood plain at your own risk.
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.
Flood insurance doesn't cover flood zones
jeeze that's a joke, right?
@@GratefulOverlander home owners insurance does not cover floods, however flood insurance can be purchased from a National Flood Insurance company.
So sorry this happened to all of you. Is there a GoFundme set up?
It was gov't housing, and you believe $40 Billion really went to Ukraine.
Why is she smiling? Despite their home is washed out!
If one can't smile In the face of adversity, one will live an entire lifetime of sadness.
Pretty sure the tears came while it was going on.
They lost their home and she's smiling like it's no big deal.
I thought that was apartments / park employees homes. What a bummer!
God Bless
I was lucky went to Yellowstone National Park a week ahead before flood!
It came to pass, Unprecedented. 😱
no it isn't.
Hope everyone had good insurance !!
Thanks for covering this family's story, but I think you have the wrong footage, This is a National Park building.
It's a house they lived in owned by the NPS because they were working for the NPS.
Gosh, I sure hope these people bought renters insurance.... so devastating.
Does anyone doubt God is in control? Not any of us. In case you needed reminding.
yeah. I do. I doubt God has squat to do with a rainstorm.
Add?
"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".
Snowing not Showing!!!!!!
Snowing to cool the volcano down?!
Dang spell check, it changes what I write by itself!
Suspect for sure!
I can't help but wonder and worry about pets in the house. Glad the people are okay.
Why are the other news channels saying that building was seasonal housing for Yellowstone employees??
Because it is.
Some seasonal employees work year round there in a different job.
I wonder if they have adequate insurance coverage...
VERY UNFORTUNATE. VERY SAD. HOPE NOBODY IS HURT.
LESSON: DO. NOT BUILD HOUSES, BUILDINGS VERY NEAR RIVERS OR SEAS.
It wasnt very close before the flooding
@@Silverstar129 but it was located in an area long known as a flood plain.
@@vickimeyers2672 that is very much not a flood plane
@@vickimeyers2672 it was even further from the water than I though at over 100 feet
Park service house that is payed for by the Taxpayers. A much nicer place then most of the residents of the state reside in.
Where's the water flow to? California and lake Mead need it.
She seems awfully happy for having just lost their home...
I Think They Be OK If They Have Flood Insurance
But the view was spectacular.. sorry Charlie
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.
Sorry for my ignorance, but why should one live in the middle of pine trees? Is it because of forest fires? 🧐
Well that eliminates half the homes in the United States
Pine trees? What’s up with pine trees?
@@cynicalcindy1434 if theirs ever a fire! 🙃. Been there done it..
@@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!
When you rebuild build closer to the river bank.
Send some of that Water to Lake Mead......
✌✌
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.
Why are they so happy tho
This was a 5 apartment building.
And yet these floods ARE IN the Rocky Mountains in Montana.
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
It wasn’t a flood zone.
Why would you build next to a river?
Hey Noah, I found a guy to build your next boat.
Lesson learned don’t live on a river just like we’ve learned on the coast don’t live on the beach
People reap what sow especially now and coming destroying
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...
That bridge ruined a nice house boat.
Now that's funny
matchbox houses dont stand up to nothing .
It got swollded and poped it sides and took the dirt an stuff and swoolded off.🌊🏡
They need a go fund me account !!
Gov't Housing. FJB
Oh please....why??? Those 'go fund me' pages are a rip off for people with more money than sense!!
Why build so close to rivers and river banks? I surely wouldnt
Bet they won't build next to a river again
California is drying up we need water
Demand that Newsom and his cronies check into how Israel is solving their water crisis.
They have all been relocated.
FIVE other families lived in it too? doesnt look that big to me, hmm
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
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.
Nobody was trying to do that
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
@@Biggestfoot10209 i lived there, this is extremely abnormal flooding
Friends don't let friends live in flood plains. Hilarious!
Dont build on river banks
ok i don’t understand why people building so close to the river ,i’m sorry but that is stupid
Probably didn't have flood insurance
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.
its a federal house ...
@@49558201 You are further reinforcing the original statement.
@@49558201 That explains everything 😂
According to another comment here, the home when originally built was 100 Ft. away from the river bank.
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...
Snore.
Who sold you that land in the river
Where to go from here? Cancer seems to be downstream.
The good life it's not the last for long time no more free rent for your dogs
Who owned the house
Forest Service
Thoughts and Prayers.
That was cool
Build on a river basin and be affected by flooding? Who could have predicted.
makes great sense to live next to the river and in the flood plain.