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! ❤️🙏❤️
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! 🙏
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
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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!
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...
@@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
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.
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 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...
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.
