Historic Flooding On The Yellowstone River - Drone Footage

Drone footage of the historic flooding on the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, Montana on June 13, 2022. Video shows a flooded mansion seemingly in the middle of the river, the Mill Creek bridge, and more.

[@agustdpeople]

Thank you - I live in the valley and my whole family was out of town this week other than me and the pets - I was able to send this to my parents. We have a strong community and seeing everyone come together these past few days has been incredible. And luckily there is one upside - no tourists speeding on 89 for a while haha!

[@michelewalburn4376]

I live on a tiny street. People fly up it I hate people speeding. That is why I don't speed when I travel. How rude can people be? Aren't they there to witness the other animals that actually live with nature? How do they see anything if they're flying down the highway?

[@brendabyrd668]

Im glad you're safe🙏..and its good laugh a little thru our hurts....stay safe 🙏its so sad to see all the devastation of so many peoples years of living devastated. Blessings🙏 and love to ALL💗

[@Whitewolf33344]

My heart only goes out the the Animal's Domestic and wild. You twatwad humans think it's so cool to live so close to mother nature and you KEEP PUSHING OUT THE WILD ANIMAL'S who we're there First well now MOTHER NATURE IS TIRED OF YOU SELFISH HUMANS AND SHOWING YOU WHAT SHES MADE OF. ITS ALSO CALLED KARMA 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@sjackson99]

When the water levels return to normal, you should fly your drone over the same route and do a before and after comparison. Thanks for sharing your amazing video.

[@AmericanPatriot1776AP]

Stay safe citizens of Montana and Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park. What a tragedy for the beautiful homes and ranches being destroyed.

[@thecirclesareround]

Nature is so through with us

[@Michael_Beanflip]

stay safe wear a mask

[@erismana2105]

Build in a flood zone what could go wrong

[@rvrandy1710]

@@thecirclesareround its Gods wrath coming ....... Luke 21;36 kjv

[@Watchout1010]

stay safe?

[@bknesheim]

I live in Norway and normally do not have events like this, but three years ago the same conditions resulted in major flooding in many rivers in the middle of Norway and sections in several rivers change course permanently. I just hope that this do not give you serious problems.

[@poonlenghenryyap2923]

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[@Good-DaySunshine]

💖💖💖💖

[@brendabyrd668]

Stay safe in Norway🙏Thanks for sharing🙏

[@mattdias8051]

Inevitable when living inside a river valley.

[@Angel-qf6if]

Right?

[@jeninmontana]

First we suffered through drought & horrific fires & now flooding. I'm now in Missoula, but spent a lot of time in this part of the state when I was growing up. Just breaks my heart.

[@OldManGibb]

This is why you never build in a flood plain. this sucks for all those people.

[@orthopraxis235]

Most all the development in expensive resorts is in the flood plain. It's great until this happens.

[@Peace_and_Love_777.....]

Is truly tragic, praying for all that live there ... my goodness, this footage of the land and sky is absolutely stunning.

[@sonyah5081]

Hoping everyone is safe. Thank you for sharing.

[@CheriAwesomeSunsetsTravel]

Wow 😯 Crazy how some places are Flooded and some have No Rain! Thanks for Sharing! 🤗

[@oddlilbird]

I’m in Northern California and we’re afraid we won’t have water on demand in the next 3-5 years😳

[@robertcarrasco2504]

Isn't there anyway the army core of engineering could have diverted the water to the dry states down south 🤔

[@mariankeller5852]

Cheri.... Ya think maybe its because water flows downhill ? 😲..

[@wildlyunrulyadventures3942]

Damn that really puts in into perspective. Wow. I mean we've had our share of flooding over here in Washington. But that's just crazy to see it like that. I truly hope everyone is safe.

[@annette8195]

I hope and pray for everyone's safety and for their livestock safety. I'm in Wyoming at east gate, our rivers are flowing hard but not damage that I'm hearing about....yet.....

[@RaleyCreativeTravel]

Wow, thats sad!! I feel bad for Yellowstone NP and all the rivers along through there!! We were near the Yellowstone River in Billings so this breaks us to see our favorite state and where my brother in law lives have so much devastation!!

[@thepeacefulrevolution146]

Nice Job and thanks for putting it up and sharing!

[@spicencens7725]

Such rugged beauty! I would live there in a heartbeat. Hopefully all were saved...the animals first & foremost. The properties look amazing, and hopefully everyone can reclaim & rebuild wo much difficulty.🙏🏻

[@rjbjr]

The winters are long and the summers are short, and winds are high all year long in most of Paradise Valley. Have I convinced you to settle somewhere else?

[@rjbjr]

@@sonjaorleans8850 I can't afford to be greedy, since I'm retired on a fixed income now. I once lived about 10 miles from where the video was shot. I moved somewhere else after about 20 years there. Greed has nothing to do with it, but old age does. Property values in the area have gone out of sight, and you are welcome to spend as much money as you wish for whatever you wish.

[@spicencens7725]

@@rjbjr We say the same in NC! Go live somewhere else, lol. The summers are long and muggy. If we are lucky, we may get a few inches of snow in the winter. If not, there's always next year. I would like to be closer to mountains tho.

[@JF2it]

Animals out first, then maybe think about getting your children and wives out. Damn news only ever shows the people getting out on boats and rafts first. How come they never show boats and raft loads of cattle and horses being rescued. I'm with you, who would possibly expect them to survive on any of that awful green foliage or that nasty mountain water flowing by in abundance? Kids stay here while I get the heard on the next boat! I'll be back by sun up if the house is still standing. 🤠

[@uncoolmediagroup5576]

Special kind of… special… I’m sorry I’m not saving the cows before I save the children smh

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Actually this is normal , what's not normal is building on flood plains weather it's 25 years ,a 100 years or five hundred .that includes creeks too . Don't rebuild in same place , high ground .

[@judycoyne7818]

Yes, I agree!! Hopefully they can rebuild on higher ground.

[@larryennmerson3566]

North here in Calgary we had a lot of rain and high winds so far the rivers here are within their Banks feel really bad for those persons who are experiencing flooding and losing their homes

[@loriwoloshyn7266]

Drones allow us to see things from above. Excellent footage.

[@sixfigureskibum]

I've made oil paintings of many of these buildings and fields. Always wonder who decided to build on flood plains

[@exutiku]

Always sad to see this sort of thing happen, but if people must insist on building and living on river flats then they have to expect that sometimes the flats will become a part of the river again as the river is the reason for the existence of the flats, that's why they are called river flats!

[@airwarrior3764]

Are you thinking it would be more fertile ground or better to plant wheat and corn on the mountain side? I've seen it done in Ecuador & Peru, but that's very different ground. If you live here, you know this is once in a couple hundred year +/- thing.. A lot of wheat and corn etc in the meantime. And not bad odds in terms of frequency. I was born/raised in the valley. You roll with it like everything else and just keep walking forward.

[@MetalHeadAZ]

we REALLY need some of that down here in phoenix

[@greg2976]

So beautiful flying over head! But so ragingly brutal at ground level!🙏🙏❤❤

[@lonewolffullmoon]

Great footage thanks

[@WilhelmvonFahrvergnugen]

Absolutely beautiful ST, thank you.

[@skubyvision]

Great drone work, but so hard to watch. Heart goes out to everyone impacted by this.

[@cherokeedonna83]

So horrible ! Prayers for all the people and animals this has effected ! :(

[@JC-fy6fy]

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[@rebeccawood5074]

I am praying for all involved in the flooding in Yellowstone and all the towns

[@montanasofficialceo]

Great footage, thanks for sharing

[@annfunoneyep1607]

I hope people and animals stay safe

[@alvinwilliams7986]

Shows you the power of mother nature no matter were you live Just be safe.Lots of water can be dangerous to your health.

[@sheribrummett1960]

Consider weather modifications as well ,those grids in the sky are not contrails

[@billyclone4289]

You did a superb job of filming this what gear were you using ? I have a couple older DJI Phantom 4 and a Vision Plus and i know this video was the result of much flying and filming did you use FPV gear ? Just curious.

[@Sotweetie]

Thank you! This was filmed on a Mavic Pro with an iPhone connected to the remote.

[@sheilapendley1716]

Thank You!

[@charlesvt2010]

Thank you very much

[@jrhend5355]

Imagine in the past that the water was bigger than that now... WOW!!

[@eprohoda]

SoTweetie~ breathtaking picture!

[@dsbmwhacker]

Building / living in a flood plain is great...until...😢

[@TOBYH]

CAN YOU REROUTE ALOT OF THAT WATER TO CA? WE ARE ALMOST OUT OF IT, THANKS.

[@cheril8891]

Why did the city allow these people to build homes in a flood area or in the middle of a riverbed?

[@USMCCGAGNG]

Great footage!

[@bobbypierce7608]

Mother nature reclaimed.. Hope everyone is safe 🙏

[@Ms.GreenJeans]

Pray for all the people, the animals, the crops, and may we come together to help anyone that needs it.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

As soon as you offer prayers, we know no Actions will be forthcoming.

[@kathyallman6178]

AMEN! 🙏❤️🙏

[@RobertGlazier]

Amazing video. New subscriber. Thanks.

[@Sotweetie]

Thanks for the sub!

[@nycdweller]

Unbelievable footage! I feel bad for all affected. Too bad we can’t send some of that water to the West.

[@rickbell2697]

I think you mean south..............the only thing west of Montana is Washington state........and its flooding there too.....lol

[@sharonholmes6083]

@@rickbell2697 Yep, Texas is burning up!

[@karronlaneNOLA]

thanks so much for the video. praying for people and animals effected.

[@keithpix]

nice aerials, poor folks down there

[@paulwelch7558]

Thanks for sharing this video of the flood. It's amazing how destructive mother nature can be.

[@rl2769]

I just left YSNP and I could see the road busting and being swept away in my rear view mirror. If I was 2 mins later I would have been trapped.

[@katrinmcdonough2414]

Does this drain toward the colorado river basin and lake powell or mead?

[@AM-zy3pl]

It drains into the Missouri River, which goes into the Mississippi.

[@djdiscoworm]

BEAUTIFUL

[@allthingsharbor]

Hopefully those who must rebuild will use this opportunity to set up on much higher ground. As our weather churns, such flooding might become 'normal.'

[@JustMeB729]

Water always finds it's original path.

[@sjladuke75]

Power remains out in many areas & the water/septic is likely compromised making for difficult days/weeks ahead. Everyone except park staff & residents who chose to stay were evacuated. Stay safe!

[@Michael_Beanflip]

be safe and wear masks

[@hfactor6429]

WOW just WOW!!!

[@jennifermaldonado4229]

I don't know if this is a dumb question but why don't we take advantage of these floods and use the water to fill the lakes that are drying out in the south west?

[@four-x-trading5606]

I thought the same run a pipe to lake Mead

[@sixfigureskibum]

This water flows north and east to the Missouri then Mississippi rivers tgen south out to gulf of Mexico not south or West to green or Colorado. Your talking about piping over the contenetal divide and past the snake. Past the salt lake. Or over tobflaming gorge.. and then you need resavioyrs to hold it long enough to pump it after you build the pipeline. That's 20 years and BILLIONS or TRILLions of dollars and might likely never flood like this in next 200 years as its never done this before in modern history

[@gooldenwending]

@@sixfigureskibum Yeah. Simple geography shows why this is a non-starter

[@erismana2105]

So people can go on wasting the water ? No

[@SFH1819]

@@erismana2105 I’m curious as to what your comment suggest? Don’t make comments that try and point fingers as if “People” aren’t doing enough to get water to the west coast area that overbuilt in arid areas and are now suffering from the lack of it. Everyone knows you take chances when you build in a flood plane, many of these ranches are hundreds of years old and established before the government told you what you could build on your own land. You simply dealt with the good and the bad of what came your way. It builds character to overcome adversity. They don’t (didn’t) have food trucks come by with a prepackaged lunch or stand by a crossroads with a cardboard sign asking for handouts either. They dug in and put the damage behind them and moved forward. If we can’t build a pipeline because it could disturb some species habitat, than the same applies to making a water pipeline to water the desert.

[@neptunium7121]

The river now has shown a certain width. Within that area nothing should be rebuild. A waterfront property or a piece of land is nice but please not that close to the water.

[@willwagner2252]

If you want a house near the water... It's the same everywhere, river or seashore.

[@KimberlyWatson2023]

Praying for all of us 🙏🏻 ❤️ -Kimberly Watson Billings Montana

[@dlmad4561]

do you know if Depuys spring creek ranch was buried under the river

[@judycoyne7818]

Praying all the livestock was evacuated to higher ground!! Those of you who live there and lost everything my thoughts go out to all of you. Hopefully you will be able to rebuild and move back to this beautiful part of our country!! 😪🙏

[@rogerbec5766]

If only all this water could be directed into Lake Mead.

[@hfactor6429]

I so a local interviewed (Cook City) who said it was a LATE LATE Winter this yr there. Started in MARCH When does winter start and end there on ave normal years? Nov to Feb?

[@wirebrush]

There is no average year. Climate is always changing. That's why you can't buy into "catastrophic climate change". If the climate was stable, then there wouldn't be terms like "100 year event" and "1000 year event". Extreme weather events are always happening somewhere as they always have in the past.

[@hfactor6429]

@@wirebrush PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE......no disrespect but we all get that .......but all parts of this country has an ave. seasonal changing time Grew up in upstate NY....now live in NORCAL But the guy who lives there said VERY specifically....."a late late winter" ....meaning him and all noticed it Im not talking or debating "climate change " BS Just WHEN does FIRST sbows usually begin In NY......it fluctuated late Oct earliest to early Jan latest Ends by Feb earlist to mid late March latest

[@wirebrush]

There really isn't anything consistent with the seasons here. Montana holds several records for temperature swings in short periods. I've been snowed on twice on July 4th. I took my kids to Yellowstone in August about ten years ago and drove through a blizzard to get there. I have pics of the kids bundled up standing under icicles hanging off one of the buildings at Yellowstone falls. I've experienced 70 above and 30 below on Thanksgiving day.

[@DawnMB57]

That's not usually a flood zone is it? I saw someone else's remark. I heard it was very unusual. You don't have boats on farms either I expect. How was everyone able to get off of the farms? I heard there wasn't much warning because it was a flash flood due to sudden rains. I always worry about the animals. I figure people are smart enough to get off the land, but little critters can't always figure their way out of things.

[@tulpfiction9522]

Mother Nature trumps every thing

[@madalenaaoki988]

Uau!!!!!!! Que maravilha!!!!!!!

[@audraturner5365]

May God be with the family's and keep them safe

[@bestamerica]

' beautifully heavy cloudy pourly the rainy / rivery in the weather season... keep gooing more rainy allday - allnight... bring clean water to the hoover dam and los angeles area that help less drought

[@bretthess6376]

The old Indians never pitched camp in a flood plain. They always camped or built on the second or third terrace above the flood plain. Here all these folks getting flooded out just to be 100 yards closer to the river. Too bad.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Native Americans didn't have 333 million residents, and they didn't destroy their Environment like Christian Capitalists do.

[@johnxiongnu8789]

Prayers for everyone. We need all the water for the west state. Here in California. We are all drying out wells.

[@lisagerman2111]

@John - not sure Montana's hip to sending water south, but after the last 10 days of rain we've certainly exceeded need in the southwest of state

[@gooldenwending]

@@lisagerman2111 We'll still be in some stage of drought, though. Unfortunately, this sort of thing doesn't spare us the need of moisture in the future

[@erismana2105]

Some of that is because you dont get law passed on water waste.

[@bbrad628]

A river runs through it. That’s all I have to say about that.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

That's more Missoula than Yellowstone NP.

[@flybirdillxers61]

Anything but paradise valley rn. Sad to see our beautiful state like this

[@rogerstill71]

I hate to say I 'like' this, because so many unfortunate but good people are suffering. I only hit 'like' because I am grateful for the reporting.

[@sonjaorleans8850]

Any trout in that river

[@gburfield27]

too bad they can't divert the water from the Yellowstone to the Colorado river!

[@audraturner5365]

I'm in Oklahoma I've never heard of Yellowstone park flooding in all my 32ys this is the first time I've heard of it happening at all

[@GmaMom]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@baracktrump1410]

That's some bad flooding, BTW, where's the "flooded mansion that appears to be in the middle of the river"?

[@Sotweetie]

@0:22

[@ac-3940]

Be careful that's really dangerous I hope your ok and everyone else

[@selena3957]

Prayers for the families 🙏 but I wouldn't definitely not rebuild in a flood zone.!

[@hoskieubarbara7395]

Only if you could hear water as it is filmed

[@lrothenhauser]

🙏❤️

[@Dhoward74]

I wonder if they've learned why the high ground usually has the advantage.

[@MrCk1234567890]

Montana citizen here: this is the best possible thing that could have happened to that park, clearing out all those houses and keeping the dumbass parade of tourists out of there for a while, thank god!

[@janetclarke1719]

🙌🙏

[@paz314]

Por favor, deixem traduzir os comentários. Obrigada

[@jlizardi5013]

Debating to like it or not. It is well done but I see so much damage. Hope that is not the area where you moved to.

[@josephastier7421]

A river roars through it.

[@skygrey7237]

Nature is powerful and a unforgiving.

[@aarontfoulkes]

My neighborhood... fortunately my place is just high enough (just off the end of Chickory)...

[@Angel-qf6if]

What caused this?

[@Sotweetie]

This was a "rain on snow" flood from what I understand.

[@dolphinschild62]

Praying for all humans, animals and emergency responders

[@vernwallen4246]

Keep the faith.🗽👍💕

[@HearturMind]

Devastating to see this.

[@annstillwell730]

Re.inds me of the food of 93 in Missouri.

[@gregoryknox4444]

Prayes sent.

[@unabrazoatodoslosbuenos]

Nature does as it has always done, but we just get in the way. I sure would love to fish there as soon as the water clears up.

[@seanmullikin117]

Has yellowstone ever flooded before?

[@thewhiskyscout1238]

We forget how those valleys were formed. Glaciation and massive flooding events. It’s just nature doing what nature does and we got caught in the middle again.

[@andik859]

Last year in west germany thousend homes are destroyed by flood. There in yellow stone lives not so much people but its really sad for everyone. Lake mead needs the water. Too much on wrong place. Thats nature.

[@JWRay-xh9wl]

Just to think half a million years ago this area was a land of fire and ash and half the world dealt with it... When Yellowstone goes big,it goes big...that river,wow...

[@Diana1000Smiles]

What on Earth are you talking about, here?

[@stephaniecannon410]

It came to pass. 😱

[@gaetaneguitard7011]

Are the animals are beeing taking care of?