Couple who lost home in Yellowstone River flooding speaks out
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@dmountain3902 жыл бұрын
This is actually National Park Service housing. It housed several Park Service workers. Just devastating.
@mc041619802 жыл бұрын
My heart goes out to all of you
@melanie77812 жыл бұрын
It is always risky to build on or near river banks.
@korodski2 жыл бұрын
Yah
@facitenonvictimarum1742 жыл бұрын
That's why the local government should not have allowed it. Sue the ba***rds.
@christopherdunlap882 жыл бұрын
@@facitenonvictimarum174 the house was built back in 50's. Who you gonna sue?
@facitenonvictimarum1742 жыл бұрын
@@christopherdunlap88 The government agency that allowed the house to be built in a floodplain that goes back thousands of years.
@CruiseControlM32 жыл бұрын
Sending love, comfort, and light to the Perez family🙏🏼💖🌌
@artfisher12352 жыл бұрын
I have no clue how you could not anticipate nature being nature. Rivers have challenged their banks since time immemorial.
@mic49022 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.
@stevendoerfler2 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?
@reidellis19882 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.
@mic49022 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.
@richardgadoury84522 жыл бұрын
We'll get an executive order to change that..
@kristinebailey65542 жыл бұрын
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.
@grahamtuckey53432 жыл бұрын
Thack God for the flood
@corrinetaylor75852 жыл бұрын
So sorry for your losses I can’t imagine.
@mic49022 жыл бұрын
Only wildfires and drought now, right. Good luck.
@Jack519712 жыл бұрын
Houston will get them again and Miami...and it will all be falsely called climate change.
@alexapuerta2 жыл бұрын
@@mic4902 Also flash floods, landslides, dangerous wildlife, blizzards.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
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
@donnamoss96502 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....
@Silverstar1292 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.
@mic49022 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.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
@@mic4902 except that building was put up by a guy only known to me as Schmitty.
@facitenonvictimarum1742 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
@maybee...2 жыл бұрын
The power of water is truly amazing.
@sandrachank69822 жыл бұрын
I know your hearts must be aching, but good to see you still smiling. God bless you all.
@corrinetaylor75852 жыл бұрын
Prayers to those families.
@grahamtuckey53432 жыл бұрын
Does that make you feel good to say because it does nothing
@vickimeyers26722 жыл бұрын
@@grahamtuckey5343 stop being a jerk.
@corrinetaylor75852 жыл бұрын
@@grahamtuckey5343 oh it absolutely does something. Prayer changes things!
@WildflowerAnn2 жыл бұрын
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! ❤️🙏❤️
@pablopence24292 жыл бұрын
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.....
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
The guy who built it passed away probably before I born and this was an old building.
@pablopence24292 жыл бұрын
@@Silverstar129 dam it survived time and the river hew the hell was this guy... We need to do a movie on him
@Silverstar1292 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
@terryroth28552 жыл бұрын
Sad for sure. House probably a little to close to the river. Great view though, while it lasted.
@carasmussen272 жыл бұрын
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.
@timburris37582 жыл бұрын
Prayers
@djostraat2 жыл бұрын
Wow. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@marjoriecoey34182 жыл бұрын
So sorry to see this lovely home wrecked like this. Hope everyone is okay and they have insurance.
@Godgotmealways2 жыл бұрын
So glad there all ok ❤❤❤❤🙏🏾⚘⚘⚘😊 don't worry God will provide for those who stay faithful 🙏🏾⚘😊
@maddieadams752 жыл бұрын
Wow. Prayers for safety and strength ♥️🙏
@juliewade13932 жыл бұрын
Wow, so sorry 😞
@davids80482 жыл бұрын
So sorry for your loss.
@StopWhining4912 жыл бұрын
So sorry for the loss of your home.
@dsbmwhacker2 жыл бұрын
😢Owned by the Park Service.😢
@caseymurphy2442 жыл бұрын
. Yeah but payed by the taxpayers
@christopherdunlap882 жыл бұрын
@@permitfisher this is a stupid comment.
@debiperkins2 жыл бұрын
How many times do these poor people have to watch this!!!!!
@dominiqueschaffner3082 жыл бұрын
That reminded me of 1993 and the Great Flood in Missouri.. Than too houses...vehicules...livestock..went down rivers... Spectacular but so sad.. !
@emd28032 жыл бұрын
So sad for them.
@philodowd80802 жыл бұрын
God Bless
@a-a-ron23362 жыл бұрын
It was employee housing, sooooo
@rickclark47142 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Don Rumsfeld got a new TV gig. 👍
@mrpoopoohead76682 жыл бұрын
such beautiful looking country there though
@ncg55602 жыл бұрын
God please keep the people affected safe.
@grahamtuckey53432 жыл бұрын
God creates disaster. God please help.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
So weird hearing one of my teachers on the news
@robertm.65832 жыл бұрын
Do an interview with the homes actual owner. I hope this couple had renters insurance.
@kookietherapy93982 жыл бұрын
Gov't Housing.
@lindaleehulsey31672 жыл бұрын
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! 🙏
@2centsworth7662 жыл бұрын
Build in a flood plain at your own risk.
@firesidestep42552 жыл бұрын
4 families lived there too? That’s a lot of people in one home.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
Its basically a small apartment
@firesidestep42552 жыл бұрын
I’d hope so.
@lindamon51012 жыл бұрын
Forest Service housing.
@straybullitt2 жыл бұрын
Probably immigrants. 🤷♂️
@Silverstar1292 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.
@MaryOKC2 жыл бұрын
I thought that was apartments / park employees homes. What a bummer!
@Joshy13132 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where the water is coming from?? I don't see any rain??..
@vickimeyers26722 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.
@danstrayer1112 жыл бұрын
from the sky.
@4kfamilyfunwalk2062 жыл бұрын
I was lucky went to Yellowstone National Park a week ahead before flood!
@keithfaulk13542 жыл бұрын
Hope everyone had good insurance !!
@stephaniecannon4102 жыл бұрын
It came to pass, Unprecedented. 😱
@danstrayer1112 жыл бұрын
no it isn't.
@itsme-0942 жыл бұрын
They lost their home and she's smiling like it's no big deal.
@vickimeyers26722 жыл бұрын
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.
@GratefulOverlander2 жыл бұрын
Flood insurance doesn't cover flood zones
@facitenonvictimarum1742 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.
@Bullrider33Outdoors2 жыл бұрын
I Think They Be OK If They Have Flood Insurance
@kimward57462 жыл бұрын
I can't help but wonder and worry about pets in the house. Glad the people are okay.
@bobwhelk21172 жыл бұрын
Add?
@ritamariekelley40772 жыл бұрын
So sorry this happened to all of you. Is there a GoFundme set up?
@kookietherapy93982 жыл бұрын
It was gov't housing, and you believe $40 Billion really went to Ukraine.
@mhughes11602 жыл бұрын
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
@johnganshow55362 жыл бұрын
That was employee housing, I'm sure the National Park Service will take care of them....
@mhughes11602 жыл бұрын
@@johnganshow5536 thanks , I don’t listen to all the bla bla bla of every video. LoL 😂
@MissKCece2 жыл бұрын
Why is she smiling? Despite their home is washed out!
@vickimeyers26722 жыл бұрын
If one can't smile In the face of adversity, one will live an entire lifetime of sadness.
@mwhitelaw85692 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure the tears came while it was going on.
@alancoonfare89312 жыл бұрын
Why would you build next to a river?
@juliehare34032 жыл бұрын
Gosh, I sure hope these people bought renters insurance.... so devastating.
@sherryllynn18092 жыл бұрын
Does anyone doubt God is in control? Not any of us. In case you needed reminding.
@danstrayer1112 жыл бұрын
yeah. I do. I doubt God has squat to do with a rainstorm.
@1968dirtydawg2 жыл бұрын
But the view was spectacular.. sorry Charlie
@ahavarichardson54262 жыл бұрын
Snowing not Showing!!!!!! Snowing to cool the volcano down?! Dang spell check, it changes what I write by itself! Suspect for sure!
@estebancristiano85162 жыл бұрын
VERY UNFORTUNATE. VERY SAD. HOPE NOBODY IS HURT. LESSON: DO. NOT BUILD HOUSES, BUILDINGS VERY NEAR RIVERS OR SEAS.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
It wasnt very close before the flooding
@vickimeyers26722 жыл бұрын
@@Silverstar129 but it was located in an area long known as a flood plain.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
@@vickimeyers2672 that is very much not a flood plane
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
@@vickimeyers2672 it was even further from the water than I though at over 100 feet
@giterdun18642 жыл бұрын
Where's the water flow to? California and lake Mead need it.
@MacDaddyRico2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they have adequate insurance coverage...
@MeoMiyo2 жыл бұрын
When you rebuild build closer to the river bank.
@jeanettewaverly25902 жыл бұрын
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.
@patrickjones82552 жыл бұрын
Park employee housing. So NPS I'd guess
@jeanettewaverly25902 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.)
@b4peace12 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.
@jeanettewaverly25902 жыл бұрын
@@b4peace1 Thank you! I can sleep now. 🤣
@popeyesailorman9112 жыл бұрын
Send some of that Water to Lake Mead...... ✌✌
@sinistar4262 жыл бұрын
"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".
@julienorman2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for covering this family's story, but I think you have the wrong footage, This is a National Park building.
@JRM4102 жыл бұрын
It's a house they lived in owned by the NPS because they were working for the NPS.
@corirodriquez28892 жыл бұрын
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.
@eclipsekcb92012 жыл бұрын
She seems awfully happy for having just lost their home...
@rosie4rivets3802 жыл бұрын
This was a 5 apartment building.
@karenwaddell93962 жыл бұрын
And yet these floods ARE IN the Rocky Mountains in Montana.
@native_warrior15572 жыл бұрын
Why are they so happy tho
@caseymurphy2442 жыл бұрын
Park service house that is payed for by the Taxpayers. A much nicer place then most of the residents of the state reside in.
@JB-rt4mx2 жыл бұрын
It got swollded and poped it sides and took the dirt an stuff and swoolded off.🌊🏡
@GratefulOverlander2 жыл бұрын
Why are the other news channels saying that building was seasonal housing for Yellowstone employees??
@christopherdunlap882 жыл бұрын
Because it is.
@christopherdunlap882 жыл бұрын
Some seasonal employees work year round there in a different job.
@kookietherapy93982 жыл бұрын
They have all been relocated.
@sextoyrepairman16212 жыл бұрын
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
@TatteredToys2 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t a flood zone.
@spiritseeker19322 жыл бұрын
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.
@junipiro83872 жыл бұрын
Sorry for my ignorance, but why should one live in the middle of pine trees? Is it because of forest fires? 🧐
@geraldlundgren88362 жыл бұрын
Well that eliminates half the homes in the United States
@cynicalcindy14342 жыл бұрын
Pine trees? What’s up with pine trees?
@spiritseeker19322 жыл бұрын
@@cynicalcindy1434 if theirs ever a fire! 🙃. Been there done it..
@cynicalcindy14342 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!
@colettebradford44592 жыл бұрын
Why build so close to rivers and river banks? I surely wouldnt
@shehears11632 жыл бұрын
People reap what sow especially now and coming destroying
@jamesmurray31282 жыл бұрын
That bridge ruined a nice house boat.
@mwhitelaw85692 жыл бұрын
Now that's funny
@Lauren-vd4qe2 жыл бұрын
FIVE other families lived in it too? doesnt look that big to me, hmm
@Whitewolf333442 жыл бұрын
Bet they won't build next to a river again
@Sl202 жыл бұрын
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
@richardlong80142 жыл бұрын
Probably didn't have flood insurance
@mryang36442 жыл бұрын
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...
@williamjones71632 жыл бұрын
Hey Noah, I found a guy to build your next boat.
@user-ef8up7dq7y2 жыл бұрын
The good life it's not the last for long time no more free rent for your dogs
@orthogluchensnable67772 жыл бұрын
Lesson learned don’t live on a river just like we’ve learned on the coast don’t live on the beach
@pugman15432 жыл бұрын
matchbox houses dont stand up to nothing .
@mic49022 жыл бұрын
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...
@Tipperary7572 жыл бұрын
Snore.
@running.s.fabrication2 жыл бұрын
Dont build on river banks
@EattheApple6662 жыл бұрын
Thoughts and Prayers.
@keithjones23962 жыл бұрын
That was cool
@theresahumphrey73712 жыл бұрын
They need a go fund me account !!
@kookietherapy93982 жыл бұрын
Gov't Housing. FJB
@suspendeddisbelief4012 жыл бұрын
Oh please....why??? Those 'go fund me' pages are a rip off for people with more money than sense!!
@taurus662 жыл бұрын
California is drying up we need water
@vickimeyers26722 жыл бұрын
Demand that Newsom and his cronies check into how Israel is solving their water crisis.
@PUNKMYVIDEO2 жыл бұрын
Friends don't let friends live in flood plains. Hilarious!
@spazaustin70742 жыл бұрын
Living next to a river….who would have ever thought it could wash away.
@MrMauidiver2 жыл бұрын
Where to go from here? Cancer seems to be downstream.
@sidmelban47532 жыл бұрын
Who sold you that land in the river
@efragar20032 жыл бұрын
ok i don’t understand why people building so close to the river ,i’m sorry but that is stupid
@scottlarsen18552 жыл бұрын
Who owned the house
@lindamon51012 жыл бұрын
Forest Service
@Biggestfoot102092 жыл бұрын
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.
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
Nobody was trying to do that
@Biggestfoot102092 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.
@Silverstar1292 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.
@Biggestfoot102092 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
@Silverstar1292 жыл бұрын
@@Biggestfoot10209 i lived there, this is extremely abnormal flooding
@Jack519712 жыл бұрын
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.