DIGITAL EXTRA: Yellowstone National Park releases new video of June flooding

Beginning June 12, 2022, unprecedented amounts of rainfall caused substantial flooding, rockslides, and mudslides within Yellowstone National Park. CREDIT: NPS / Jacob W. Frank

[@williamsavage6301]

I was in Yellowstone last week. I think it is amazing how quickly they got most of the park open. All of both N & S loops open as well as Grand Canyon of Yellowstone!

[@kendewsbury4139]

The human condition, in the US and CANADA. If you build in an old river bed, and on flood plains, there are consequences. Have to accept the costs.

[@dougdavis8986]

So if you build on a flood plain in Asia you're ok?

[@TomTom-xp2jb]

@@dougdavis8986 😂 Nice.

[@castaway123100]

Yellowstone is a national park, there are no major building complexes there. This is just geology at work.

[@dougdavis8986]

@@castaway123100 so if there are major building complexes geology stops working?

[@jimzimmerman5288]

Bingo!

[@michaeljabronis7271]

I visited 2 weeks ago, and after seeing this let me say, thank you for the hard work and speed to get some of these roads rebuilt so fast. Crazy year for weather and they adapted quick. Amazing park! Will be back!

[@Murzerker333]

While I feel for the residents in Paradise valley, and down stream, this event was very good for the park itself. Like the fires in 1988 this will just re-invigorate like in the park. Kind of excited to see how the parks riparian zones explode with new life.

[@terryknutson3202]

"How in the Hell do you figure??!!!"

[@TheCynicsCynic]

@@terryknutson3202 Why did you put your comment in quotes?

[@cece3194]

screw you, it's not an "event" it's peoples lives getting washed down.

[@NotMissingLink]

It’s going to be sad finding chunks of asphalt in pristine streams.

[@Userhandleidk]

@kalle klovn wtaf

[@davidbrown8310]

Remember back in 88 those fires in Yellowstone that "damage" the scenery. Later, it was discovered that fire(s) created a resurgence of growth in plant and animal life. Yes, it looks bad; we need to sit back and be amazed at the power of nature. Then decide either rebuild or remove our footprint.

[@Justusson]

“Discovered”,..? It has been knows for thousands of years and have been done both by indigenous people and farmers, to both control and rejuvenate their lands. However, the issue is when these things happens continuously. Nowadays California is having hazardous fires every year. Nothing grows from that. You don’t have the margins for regrowth at such a short span. It’s only destroying it,..

[@davidbrown8310]

@Chris The quotation marks imply the surprise of " The rocket scientist" at the BLM when everyone else involved in agriculture knew it more milleniums. Let's add over population to that Ca. Issue

[@Justusson]

@@davidbrown8310 Quotation should have been on the “discovered”-part then, and not the “damage”,.. 👍 Also, no. Californian wildfires are not due to over population, silly. The wildfires reign in the lesser populated parts of CA. It’s due to less precipitation and heat - which is something that is happening across the _world_ right now: Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, India, large parts of the continent Africa, Australia (hello, over populated,..?????). It’s even been an occurring thing in Sweden where I live, and we are a scarce people - especially in the affected areas. No. Not population. Don’t try and be smart here,..

[@davidbrown8310]

@Chris ok mister know it all thank you for being the troll police the internet needs more of you ! Now correct that if it makes you feel good. I just recall how beautiful that park was 9 years after the fire.

[@Justusson]

@@davidbrown8310 Troll police? Wow. Your ego can’t handle that your quotation marks were off and diverts the issue from that no land in cali or anywhere else is going to be pretty when the issue of fires are reoccurring year after year,.. Global issue because of global warming? No - the issue here has go to be trolling,.. 👌

[@mikeday62]

So happy to hear at least some of Yellowstone has reopened. Thank you to everyone who made it happen.

[@truthseekerhill4262]

This is truly impressive. Old Indian saying “Mother Nature has no mercy”. Yes she just does what she has to do. Thanks for the info. ☮️

[@sawhill729]

She just carved herself out a new path.

[@chandarussell]

Water is an incredibly powerful natural force.

[@LVVMCMLV]

Just put that road right next to the river… What could go wrong?

[@francespicard7460]

WOW!! Heartbreaking, to say the least!! 10 years ago, we were on some of these roads, going back home to Texas from visiting Northern Idaho, where my mother was born. We thought we'd take in some of Yellowstone & the Grand Tetons, since it was on the way home. We went in through the Roosevelt Arch entrance. We took a different route up to Idaho, where we got to see the Little Bighorn National Monument/Memorial. It was such a memorable trip, I wish I could do it again, only get to spend more time visiting!!!

[@scott1637]

@KINGDOM MT I was just thinking the same nature giveth and takth away I bet next year the landscape will be amazing

[@Noumenon4Idolatry]

I don’t know how they fixed those roads so fast but they deserve some kind of award 🥇

[@jeanetteschock4744]

Liz Cheney

[@Noumenon4Idolatry]

@@jeanetteschock4744 Nah. Some of those roads are in Montana closer to Livingston. I’m pretty sure of it anyway. I might be wrong. You from Wyoming or Montana?. I think the border cuts right through the middle of the damage though...by a town in Yellowstone. Most of the beartooth I believe is in Montana and so is the northern entrance.

[@ibrahimmoss]

Nature taking back what has always been hers’

[@leechurchill1965]

As a Californian it breaks my heart to see all that water wash away.

[@ericastier1646]

wow so it's true you Californian are really traumatized by lack of water.

[@ericastier1646]

@@axiomunbroken8495 Montanan, ok that validates united-statians to name north americaners.

[@ericastier1646]

@@axiomunbroken8495 I think you misunderstood the intent of my post (which has no correlation with CA or MO or the topic of this video). Your answer elludes me.

[@curtisraduege553]

OMG RUN Nature being Nature!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kensanity178]

Just before Christmas 1964, a powerful flash flood came thundering down a canyon I was standing on the side of. The Klamath river that day showed me the power of nature big time.

[@keithalderson100]

I remember studying the formation of ox-bow lakes along rivers back in the 1970s. Perhaps road planners need to revisit erosion during flooding near rivers? ;-)

[@artmosley3337]

Yep… and how canyons are actually cut out in days and not eons..

[@oddities-whatnot]

I did my geography year end assignment in high school based on the river Mersey in England, and the effects of erosion along it course. It was actually interesting to do.

[@Jaecht88]

Nature has cleaned itself up

[@russelljackman1413]

Amazing footage! Thank you.

[@kelvincostner802]

❤️Thanks for unlimited love and support you have consistently been showing me. I really appreciate the unconditional love I’ve gotten from you, which has inspired me to give more sensational entertainment. I’m forever grateful. What country are you watching from?

[@dereklandseidel2580]

Favorite part is closed captions provided by KZbin.

[@tommiller5394]

Stupid games win stupid prizes!. Let nature be nature.

[@NigelNaughton]

Stunningly beautiful!

[@ericastier1646]

Beautiful how nature is stronger than man made.

[@RipleySawzen]

Only when allowed to be

[@ericastier1646]

@@RipleySawzen Even when not allowed. At the end nature will kill those who hurt her because nature is part of our survival. Without a healthy ecosystem we cannot be healthy.

[@WS_00]

Go Mother Nature, so good to see humans wake up to the fact that we aren’t above nature!!!

[@ericastier1646]

Exactly my comment as well. Nature owns the planet not governments.

[@unabrazoatodoslosbuenos]

Those are class 99 rapids. Let's go!!

[@guardianmx8567]

What did you guys record on? A GoPro 1?

[@louisdriscoll2580]

Now you know how the Grand Canyon was formed

[@williamgreenfield9991]

No, you don't. The Grand Canyon is a mile deep in some places. It was formed over millions of years, but way to make yourself look like an idiot.

[@ericastier1646]

Actually as some Brits reflected, it should be called Grand Gorges not Grand Canyon. But Gorges is too evocative for the puritan united statians.

[@evanhainey2101]

Mother Earth sets no boundaries

[@edzspace1]

Cool, now with the new layers of mud the geologist can add 3 million years to the geological column!

[@williamgreenfield9991]

Way to pretend you know more than the geologists, and make yourself look like an idiot at the same time. Cool.

[@NACHALCHAIM]

Count your blessings among your difficulties, this flooding makes for some great whitewater rafting!

[@ZiggysDad]

would have been better without the black bar across the video.

[@alitloff]

Nature is amazing; our one true god. Respect her power!

[@markadams7597]

Wow! Visited most of these places, by these now washed-out roads, in 2020. Sad to see it.

[@RipleySawzen]

Sad to see roads gone? They are roads....

[@Surannhealz]

Is there any chance of this getting to Lake Powel or Lake Mead? They could use all that excess water.

[@NigelNaughton]

Doesn't flow that way 😁

[@thomastuorto9929]

True. All of the tech out today & the human race can’t figure a way collect move this amount of water to the SW, or the west in general. It would cost to much anyway. Besides, we need to concentrate on weapons of mass destruction.

[@robc.5745]

@@NigelNaughton Figures..

[@terranceroff8113]

Nope empties into the Missouri, and then into the Mississippi.

[@jeremywallace5961]

Water ALWAYS wins!

[@keithdmaust1854]

Shocked, shocked I tell you at the loss of stream-side roads.

[@jakesjacobs5075]

Excuse my ignorance, but where did all that water go?

[@dimitriwimbley4126]

Great! Mother Nature at her BEST Reclaiming what was naturally suppose to be. Wasn't their's to steal in the first place.

[@generaleerelativity9524]

Nobody stole anything Dimitri, it was just bad planning on the engineers part when they decided to pave that road.

[@Posark]

Automatic subtitles: “Aa yeah, yeah. Mhm. Yeah”

[@1FatHappyBirthday]

Mother Nature be like, “Hold my beer. I got this.”

[@robertwaid3579]

Since the Weekend of the Flooding. I haven't Commented, or said much about it. But what Happened? Just proves how Helpless we are? To Mother Nature? now & even in the Future. The Power Exhibited, then was Just unbelievable, yet Amazing. Thank God,🙏🙏 so few People, got hurt or worse, in the Aftermath, of it?

[@Klangtrieb]

The subtitles at the beginning 😂

[@joefredette6721]

Would love to metal detect. Has got to be some gold in them there hills boys.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

Really? That's your reaction? "I hope there is money in it for me". Wow

[@Jack51971]

@@williamgreenfield9991 It is a very good and logical reaction. The plan was to build a railroad through Yellowstone Park from Gardiner to Cooke City and why? To get the estimated 500,000 to 2 million ounces of GOLD that are still buried behind Cooke City. Some copper, silver, lead too. Yup! Still up there but just too much snow in winter and other obstacles that makes it too expensive to get it out. It's called Yellowstone because gold was found in the river. Cheers!

[@williamgreenfield9991]

@@Jack51971 Thanks. I did not know any of that. Drove that route from Red Lodge through the Bear Tooth area to the northeast entrance of the park once in the late 80s. Utterly breathtaking country! Not sure how one would come up with an estimate like that, but it would be a shame to allow big time mining in such a pristine wilderness. I'm fine with some treasure seekers with gold pans trying their luck, but mining these days is more on a massive scale. Be well.

[@csjrogerson2377]

How would you grade the first part of the clip in terms of kayak/canoeing - 300EEEE or OMG?

[@terranceroff8113]

I would grade it.. "Suicidel!"

[@Todd-cf8nl]

Point of no return!

[@williamgreenfield9991]

I would rate it certain death.

[@Christin5554]

I was at Yellowstone the year after the devastating fire, it was a terrible site and now this.

[@ericastier1646]

But it's good, nature owns it not united statians state

[@mizzougrad001]

Nature being Nature.

[@Rancid_One]

Amazing how our local star Sol continues to drive a changing climate on planet Earth .. like it always has .

[@scottw5315]

4 billion years and counting.

[@TheCynicsCynic]

lol

[@kenhiett5266]

At an average temperature warmer than we are experiencing now as many more humans succumb to cold than heat every year.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

You are clueless, but don't let the facts get in the way of your fantasies.

[@kenhiett5266]

@@williamgreenfield9991 Except everything the op states is objectively, factually true. Clinging on to pop culture narratives promoted and used for political purposes, while being ignorant of the current day reality and Earths climate history is actually exposing you.

[@buzza2077]

Now they are gonna divert the roads around the new cutouts right? That is the natural way the river wants to flow and Yellowstone is all about preserving nature.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Nature was like lol river go this way now

[@mclovin2991]

Where do the fish goes in an event like this? Does it kill all of them?

[@RipleySawzen]

Many of these structures were purposefully built to allow nature to overrun them. They could easily build roads that the river would not be able to destroy. We chose to keep Yellowstone a place where nature is in charge. inb4 supervolcano comment

[@jerrysponagle3881]

Where did all the water come from? Why? Does this happen every year?

[@williamgreenfield9991]

1st question: Snow melt and heavy rain. 2nd question: Because snow melts and sometimes it rains hard. 3rd question: Snow melts every year. Rain falls often, but not this much this fast every year.

[@elaineresendez4419]

Mother Nature is in control

[@mari5191]

this is nature, good thing it's not a heavily populated area....

[@daleslover2771]

That's a lot water, I can only imagine how the west coast looked like in 1862. Couldn't even comprehend that it rained over 10' in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Wow that would be something to see.

[@markplott4820]

too much water too fast , is a BAD thing. Gradual water over LONG period is key.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

The floods of 1964 on the north coast of California caused massive flooding on 5 rivers including the Eel, Trinity, Klamath, and Smith rivers. First there was a cold storm that dumped lots of snow. Then followed a warm storm that dumped 32 inches in 3 days.

[@artmosley3337]

This is a perfect example of how the Grand Canyon was actually formed.. notice the “Bowles” cut into the sides and steep cliffs??? The Grand Canyon was formed in a Mater of Days.. a huge lake ice dam broke sending a 500-1000’ foot high wall of water down the creek… washing it into Huge Sweeping bends and sheer clifs.. they think there was at least 2-3 … it was Not the slow erosion that we were taught in school 50 years ago…

[@williamgreenfield9991]

Of course you are wrong. How do you know about this "huge lake ice dam"? Were you there? Any evidence? Or PIOOMA? Keep on thinking that you are smarter than all the scientists. It must make you feel so good about yourself. When you say "they think", who is this "they" that you are talking about? Is this one of those attempts to show that the Earth is really only about 6,000 years old? Are you a flat Earther too?

[@grandmadollar1492]

Where in hell did you come up with this crapola? Donald Trump? Only I can do it.

[@artmosley3337]

@@grandmadollar1492 watch the video silly old lady 😂😂😂

[@grandmadollar1492]

@@artmosley3337 Stuff it

[@artmosley3337]

@@grandmadollar1492 its the Truth.. but idiots can’t handle the truth.. they need a safe space…

[@rogerdudra178]

Looks like it'll be a while till the road to Cooke City will be open.

[@DagUTube]

Lesson learned? Do not build roads along the river

[@Alex.....]

It's called nature

[@Lue_Jonin]

It's the end of July now.... Get over it and move forward. 👎 🎥

[@makenchips]

I think it's time to rethink how we put roadways in the long river sites and how we build Bridges! Another pristine rivers are all full of road work well maybe they weren't pristine anymore!

[@Noumenon4Idolatry]

“It’s all your fault!” ~ ManPigBear

[@SunshineStateofMind1981]

I wish the upload would be in 4K.

[@cann5565]

Nature cleaning up.

[@1jesus2music3duke]

The river basically decided it wanted to become the road

[@brianprobert3090]

If a river identifies as a road, that means we can drive on it, right?

[@andrewfinlay5160]

What lake did this fill

[@AngelaSissySnyder]

Yellowstone Lake most likely

[@colineaston6305]

Can they not divert some of this water to Lake Mead or the other dams that are short of water?

[@SanguineMalcontent]

Do you realize how far the Colorado River (Lake Mead's source waters) is from Yellowstone?

[@grandmadollar1492]

We're gonna need a million Chinese coolies to do so. Put in a call to Chairman Mao, now. (It rimes)

[@dtw1991]

ya'll should do hour videos

[@ahill209]

I don't think a lot of folks believe how destructive water can be. BTW, KBZK, it's "Severely" cut banks. NOT severe cut banks. Severely is an adverb of the verb cut. Your journalists need to refresh their grammar studies.

[@bagheerab278]

In this case, the geological term "cut bank" is used as a noun. To describe it as a severe cut bank is acceptable here.

[@colonelcatastrophe4821]

So where did all that water go again???

[@jackbelk8527]

The Continental divide runs through Yellowstone. Most of the flooding was in the Yellowstone River drainage which is a tributary of the Missouri so the water went to the Gulf of Mexico.

[@machobunny1]

That's gonna take a while to fix.

[@carlossaenz4075]

Here did all that water go too

[@Showboat_Six]

So when you build by a babbling brook, sooner or later it becomes a raging torrent!

[@lukeallen3696]

I find it quite bizarre how close the roads are built along the River. There is bound to be damage even during smaller rainfall events like this. The consequences of messing with nature.

[@Ck-zk3we]

@@boblatkey7160 they could leave it wild

[@scottw5315]

Well that's not unusual and people like the view obviously. Nature kicks our ass occasionally and we rebuild. No big deal...

[@Jack51971]

Not only are roads often built along a river but train tracks as well. The land is flatter along the river's edge so it is easier and less expensive. The railroad is built along the banks of the Yellowstone from Livingston, MT through eastern Montana. Not always on the rivers edge but not too far away.

[@jctr4559]

@@Ck-zk3we I personally enjoy looking at beautiful scenery during a drive. There is enough space to go around. Or, just shut yourself up in a city, which is what Agenda 21 and WEF is all about.

[@mikeservidz420]

Yep Mother Nature doing what she does …

[@ragertron]

Yeah.

[@woody5109]

Sooner or later rivers flood, that’s it. You build next to a river, you pay the price.

[@clarenceclark8592]

Do something worth posting like diverting that flood water to the Colorado river because our last huge public works program is now faltering imagine that

[@scottw5315]

Politicians don't want to fix the problems...they want to demagogue the issues.

[@Ck-zk3we]

Wrong side of the continental divide. Do something, get educated

[@williamgreenfield9991]

@@scottw5315 Demagogue is not a verb.

[@scottw5315]

@@williamgreenfield9991 I just made it one.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

@@scottw5315 Point taken. Language is fluid.

[@NocyMusic]

Don’t mess with Mother Nature

[@secretstreamsandfeverdreams]

That would move gold happily!! Haha

[@gregorythompson2251]

We aint in charge

[@probablynotmyname8521]

Stand right next to the fast flowing water that is causing erosion a few feet away… not the smartest thing to do.

[@fernquiroz]

Was this caused by the same weather system that's causing the power outages back east?

[@lydiawarg8247]

It happened in June, so not likely

[@2nd-place]

Yell “Flood!”

[@Mntdewmania1]

Mother Nature is like..What's that?? You think you have be mapped and figured out do you....Here, hold my Wine.....

[@nicholashomler1494]

New fish from road conditions easier than ever.

[@RFPishere]

catch all that water

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Mother nature. She doesn't care..

[@TryAmazonPrimeToday]

Very gnarly!

[@edheinlein3747]

Just imagine all the crying and whining there will be when Yellowstone erupts and REALLY changes the park! I guess most of these whiners think this park, and every other park was designed and built by some landscape architect, and should NEVER change until some other human hires them to redesign it and then build it.

[@TheCynicsCynic]

lol

[@kenhiett5266]

@@jeffgrant8228The guy who says: "there will be no surrounding states", shouldn't be lecturing anyone. A U.S. state is an area of land defined by its borders, not its population. Where do you think the surrounding states are going to go? And you'd probably be better off much closer to the caldera in western Idaho than western Iowa, if and when Yellowstone erupts. Something you would know if you had done your "research".

[@Jack51971]

Well I suppose we can all just worry about Yellowstone blowing or a big earthquake to hit LA San Fran or even Helena, MT again and we can worry about thermonuclear war too. Climate change global warming etc etc. Average life expectancy is what in the USA? 78? Then we go under the dirt so get a beer and chill! Cheers!

[@KeyofDavid5778]

I hope the trout survive!

[@greatplainsman3662]

I read something years ago about how the fish hug the bottom during floods, evidently the currant isnt as powerful there.

[@oldhardrock2542]

And that, students, is how canyons are carved.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

No, it's ONE way, but not the main way, which is slower erosion over time, and you are not a teacher and we are not your students for good reason, because your statement is PIOOMA.

[@oldhardrock2542]

@@williamgreenfield9991 more change occured in the Yellowstone drainage in 1 week than has occurred in 120+ years...

[@williamgreenfield9991]

@@oldhardrock2542 Point taken, but 120 years is a blip on the radar compared to millions of years. Sorry my reply was so snarky. Bugs Bunny ruined me.

[@oldhardrock2542]

@@williamgreenfield9991 it's a combination of the two. Little by little each spring then, every 50 to 100 years a big one hits and takes the mud and sand laid down in "normal" years and makes big changes. I remember sitting on the rim of tbe canyon below Yellowstone Falls one August and hearing basket ball size rocks rolling down the sides every 10 minutes or so.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

@@oldhardrock2542 Point taken.

[@wowbagger3505]

Lots of very erodible rocks in Yellowstone made up of fine glass ejected by the super volcano that kind of melted together as it piled up.

[@TeamFish15]

This isn’t a climate change issue. Weather events, massive floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, are all normal in this region, and have occurred for millions and millions of years. The issue is the encroachment of man made materials which will inevitably be destroyed by these natural changes and become eyesores in the process, yet climate change will be blamed.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

Glad to know you've studied this issue so diligently that you know more than all the climate scientists on the planet. Climate change is real. Over 400 ppm of carbon in the atmosphere now. More than the Earth has had via natural fluctuation for hundreds of thousands of years. We put that carbon there. Stop with the PIOOMA statements. You are clueless, unless of course you have EVIDENCE. You don't.

[@TeamFish15]

@@williamgreenfield9991 I didn’t say accelerated climate change wasn’t real. I was merely pointing out that mankind can expect their buildings, roads, to be affected when built in such a volatile area. But thanks for your condensation.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

@@TeamFish15 Sorry I misinterpreted your remarks. And especially sorry that I was so snarky about it.

[@TeamFish15]

@@williamgreenfield9991 that’s quite alright.😃

[@Paul_C]

So, one side has too little water, the other too much. Bring in the Chinese, like they did when the railroads needed to be built.

[@morecringe89]

You never saw water...

[@lbl9066]

Yeap, but still sad…

[@the_mowron]

Really nothing compared to what it will look like when the super volcano goes off.

[@terranceroff8113]

That is some scary ass flooding!

[@garyk1334]

Brown water rafting anyone ?

[@novanut1964]

is all the water going to LA?

[@terranceroff8113]

Wouldn't that be nice. Unfortunately is many hundred of miles away and part of the Mississippi river water shed. The cost of moving the water into the Colorado basin for use the the SW US would be beyond prohibitive.

[@novanut1964]

yes i been watching many videos, reading articles, on the subject, it was a tounge in cheek joke, thanks

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Only thing going to LA are thousands ( more ) Illegals