VIDEO: Employee housing in Yellowstone collapses into river as flood rages

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Billings Gazette

2 жыл бұрын

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@Talestrailsandtaverns 2 жыл бұрын

But like, who did the roof, because that thing really held together.

@theflanman420420 2 жыл бұрын

That building was most likely old so it was made by genuine craftsmen with quality material.

@rhuephus 2 жыл бұрын

the roof was built to withstand hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. Too bad they built on sand

@timmjackson 2 жыл бұрын

@@rhuephus Hurricanes? In Yellowstone?

@ge2623 2 жыл бұрын

But like...

@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 2 жыл бұрын

Sand is the best surface to build on..

@madjack8893 2 жыл бұрын

Ah man. Imagine all your belongings and memories just gone. Poor people, feel for them, we lost everything but ourselves in a fire when I was a kid. I just remember being outside in my pajamas while my mom was in tears. Just like that everything gone. Horrible feeling. My sympathies to all being affected. Wildlife too.

@jameswahnee435 2 жыл бұрын

Mad jack. Thank you for your sympathy.

@recoveringsoul755 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, difficult to come back from that

@KDevlaney 2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@kevindunlap5525 2 жыл бұрын

You don't know fire's coming. Everybody here knew this was on it's way.

@katekenn156 2 жыл бұрын

It’s so, so sad 😞

@alexaltrichter1597 2 жыл бұрын

Probably wasn't the best choice for a building site.

@bioswalesbioswales3004 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure they built it hanging over the water cantilevered like that.

@Vo0d0o2009 2 жыл бұрын

@@bioswalesbioswales3004 this place is the epicenter of a timer bomb

@davecooper3238 2 жыл бұрын

@@bioswalesbioswales3004 What makes you sure. Have you seen photos ?

@bioswalesbioswales3004 2 жыл бұрын

@@davecooper3238 I’m not sure, lol. It would be idiotic and you’d need zoning variance to get it that close to water and cantilevered over. Anyone with half a brain wouldn’t do it- and for that reason it probably wasn’t done. My point was that you can never expect what nature will do. It was probably a good distance from the water before it consumed the earth between it in a rush of water

@ge2623 2 жыл бұрын

As opposed to being built on a super volcano, captain obvious?

@UCCLdIk6R5ECGtaGm7oqO-TQ 2 жыл бұрын

Whoever would've thought a river could swell to a higher than usual level now and again?

@wardrobelion 2 жыл бұрын

😉👍

@adannielsen2442 2 жыл бұрын

This is a once in a thousand year event you nonce

@DocScience2 2 жыл бұрын

45.0367422,-110.7198516,20z

@eugenesant9015 2 жыл бұрын

The advantage of living in a van down by the river.

@CarsandCats 2 жыл бұрын

Gonna need to file a change of address with the post office once it stops moving. The numbers are going too fast to write down.

@bikeny 2 жыл бұрын

I don't want to make fun of the situation, but to your point, it reminds me of the scene in Airplane, as they move down the runway, the PA announcer keeps announcing the gate changes.

@kennywills8797 2 жыл бұрын

@@bikeny Now thats a HOUSE Boat ! Hopefully no one riding it.

@DocScience2 2 жыл бұрын

45.0367422,-110.7198516,20z

@carnyzack 2 жыл бұрын

The real tragedy is the vertical filming. God forbid we actually see the entire scene at the same time.

@josephvanwie6706 2 жыл бұрын

Give them a break, they work for the federal government. Probably voted for that cadaver as well.

@USNWaveRet 2 жыл бұрын

Well, there are other vids out from both sides of this river showing this housing unit falling into the river in landscape mode. LOL My son is living there now, in the park, not in this housing unit. Said it's really bad there. :(

@forrestgumball 2 жыл бұрын

In 240p too lol

@frontagulus 2 жыл бұрын

Haha, just for you. And you did, you saw all the sky and ground : )

@glevideo 2 жыл бұрын

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@13lood13ath 2 жыл бұрын

Mother nature doesn't f*ck around.

@alwaysreturnNurgirl 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine fishing downstream, and a random house just floats on by

@ge2623 2 жыл бұрын

Better than a specific house floating by?

@ananda_miaoyin 2 жыл бұрын

Damn. The housing shortage just got worse.

@patriotronin7098 2 жыл бұрын

You would think that they would know not to build so close to a river.

@thunderbird2918 2 жыл бұрын

MY HEART ACHES FOR THOSE PEOPLE :(

@endebtedone 2 жыл бұрын

that was a whole damn building and not a tiny one either just floating down the river. WOW!!!

@septembersurprise5178 2 жыл бұрын

Gives new meaning to the word houseboat.

@senoJSR 2 жыл бұрын

Symbolic of America decending into the abyss

@LindaFromSeaAtTull 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the Grim Creeper.

@gehlen52 2 жыл бұрын

Employee's in National Parks under the concessionaire AMFAC back in the late 70's were hard-core, we would have tents, showers, and a mess set up in no time, business as usual.

@ComputerChickProductions 2 жыл бұрын

There are several companies that sub contract the concessions and retail at Yellowstone now

@gehlen52 2 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerChickProductions That is not surprising, good things never seem to last.

@steveeddy6876 2 жыл бұрын

Yeeessss no luxury Motels!

@johnkrogh5532 2 жыл бұрын

THAT was impressive. Thinking that it would be taken to the flood piece by piece, and then in less that 3 sec its all gone.

@sevenfivebulldogs7052 2 жыл бұрын

Builders did a good job just not on the placement part hehe

@josephvanwie6706 2 жыл бұрын

That's what happens to people without a foundation as well. ....

@DocScience2 2 жыл бұрын

45.0367422,-110.7198516,20z

@12thstatetrucker89 2 жыл бұрын

What man builds nature reclaims every time.

@chrismechanic2000 2 жыл бұрын

because the placement choice is very poor, every time.

@gabrielford3473 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrismechanic2000 When you look at the material used, I don't believe permanence was ever the intention.

@russelmurray9268 2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@lavapix 2 жыл бұрын

Build back never.

@davidluchsinger7377 2 жыл бұрын

I thought that little porch was going to break off. Turns out the whole house went with it.

@oftin_wong 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised it's American made Look at some of the flood footage from Asia,South America and India ...house built of sticks crumble like a ....well,.... a house of sticks

@TheFrenchPug 2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@hdskl2150 2 жыл бұрын

Yea that was crazy

@UncleKennysPlace 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best examples of why one should never use portrait mode for moving pictures.

@ScottCooperDeeDooper 2 жыл бұрын

I know this is bad but I wish the flood would have taken all portrait mode photographers with the house.

@recoveringsoul755 2 жыл бұрын

OH, thanks for reminding me to turn my tablet 90° and watch a second time with full screen mode on. Perfectly fills the whole screen.

@ScottCooperDeeDooper 2 жыл бұрын

@@recoveringsoul755 weird flex, but ok.

@tjf1114 2 жыл бұрын

@@recoveringsoul755 And is still missing 2/3 of the scenery.

@recoveringsoul755 2 жыл бұрын

@@tjf1114 I saw everything caught on film. Find the original photographer and complain to them. Maybe they can get the building to collapse again. We're lucky to have any footage at all and people are complaining. That's nuts

@briantuttle1370 2 жыл бұрын

That home is in Gardner just outside of Yellowstone at the North Gate not “in” Yellowstone.

@salamon1080 2 жыл бұрын

Phew!! Thank God you clarified... Video takes on a whole new meaning now....

@zarb88 2 жыл бұрын

Was in Gardner, it has since relocated.

@DocScience2 2 жыл бұрын

45.0367422,-110.7198516,20z

@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 2 жыл бұрын

It’s not where it used to be. Bob mischelle from Glendive already cut it up and is renting it out.

@mrwinston_thepug 2 жыл бұрын

I love mother nature taking back her land

@ghjcmo 2 жыл бұрын

So I presume you live . . . In space or somewhere?

@paulsawczyc5019 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in this case she's washing it clean first.

@mrwinston_thepug 2 жыл бұрын

@@ghjcmo not yet but Elons ship to Mars is almost done 😉

@mrwinston_thepug 2 жыл бұрын

@@paulsawczyc5019 she might want to run the rinse cycle a couple times just to make sure all the filth gets out.

@jimbeekman4863 2 жыл бұрын

Well when you build in a flood plain. H E L L O

@coldcynic2213 2 жыл бұрын

I just recently watched the Johnstown flood. Utterly horrific! Over 100 years ago, but had never heard of it.

@johnstack4316 2 жыл бұрын

My great grandparents on my mother's side of the family died in the Johnstown flood may 31st 1889. My grandfather John Morris was 2 years old when he was orphaned. There were around 99 orphans like My grandfather. There are no records of where they went after they were taken to Pittsburgh. The rich guys like Carnegie and the Rockefeller's didn't want the bad publicity for the tragedy they caused. They were responsible for raising the water levels and installing screens to keep fish from going over the spillway. 10 inches of rain in 24 hrs was too much for the earthen dam and it washed out. That's why Carnegie became a philanthropist and built library's because of the guilt of killing over 2200 people that they know of. The number is actually closer to 2500 since the valley was a steel valley full of immigrants. Nobody had social security numbers back then. That flood was the first time the American Red Cross was deployed.

@coldcynic2213 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnstack4316 I'm sorry for the loss of your family. Thank you for recounting you families history, never let it be forgotten. This story hit me hard because my brother was being flooded out a few days ago when I watched it. He is below a dam and they were releasing water to ease the pressure on the dam. No one seemed to realize that was a sign the dam was at risk. When authorities are willing to flood people's homes it's usually because they are trying to avert a larger catastrophe! Fortunately the rain has stopped for awhile and the water level has receded.

@carlaeskelsen 2 жыл бұрын

The worst. 💔

@mobelue 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Look at that erosion! Must have taken millions of years!

@recoveringsoul755 2 жыл бұрын

Millions of years? This must be the time lapse version then.

@MrBowser2012 2 жыл бұрын

Ha! my thoughts exactly. Seeing all these roads that no longer exist due to a few hours worth of increased volume, really illustrates what something like a global flood could do to the landscape.

@wardrobelion 2 жыл бұрын

Now don’t you dispute scientific data🤣

@danstrayer111 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrBowser2012 ....global flood...?

@gabrielford3473 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrBowser2012 getting pretty ignorant in here

@garyevans718 2 жыл бұрын

Why do people build homes on riverbanks ?

@jeffreyvaughn6332 2 жыл бұрын

its call a grand solar minimum. that combined with increased volcanic activity most under the ocean.... u get excessive precipitation.

@recoveringsoul755 2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone gets it

@ananda_miaoyin 2 жыл бұрын

Send that shit to Cali please.

@floridabudgetbuilds4157 2 жыл бұрын

That is a well built house

@reefread1234 2 жыл бұрын

BUT ON THE WRONG FOUNDATION

@Blake4625kHz 2 жыл бұрын

@@reefread1234 still trying to figure out the logic behind building on loose earth that close to a river. Even if originally there had been 50ft to the bank 🤷‍♂️

@floridabudgetbuilds4157 2 жыл бұрын

@@reefread1234 😆 🤣

@johnrflinn 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the intact Japanese homes floating downstream with the tsunami.

@rhuephus 2 жыл бұрын

yeah ... on a foundation of SAND

@seandoshandy 2 жыл бұрын

“Look its a houseboat honey!”

@chrisparker8539 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for filming vertically. I didn't want to miss one second of the the other side of the river.

@kimokoanui3732 2 жыл бұрын

Another case of people building in a flood zone gone wrong

@meinAliasfuer2024 2 жыл бұрын

Hotels with Pools in Las Vegas , homes in the Hollywood Hills, Houses and roads in a riverbed / flooding zone - play stupid games, wi stupid prices.

@m0ntheg3rs 2 жыл бұрын

Historic flood levels my man, this year has made new flood zones.

@gabrielford3473 2 жыл бұрын

So, if you're going to lecture on intelligence, or the lack thereof, a quick proof read of your comments will go a long way.

@theflanman420420 2 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielford3473 yeah you would think that would deter most of these idiots but here we are again and will be in the near future.

@extinctnine 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, most areas with river beds have a history which only repeats itself. also humans don't have a complete history. Only what was written during settlement. Even paleontologist got only some of it right with the dinosaurs. Calm down there keyboard warriors. Comment section is made for opinions. Not belittling others because you want to make yourself feel better.

@TheFrenchPug 2 жыл бұрын

I get the other ones but what's up with the Vegas hotels with pools reference?

@jerilyncibulka6162 2 жыл бұрын

I was not expecting the whole thing to go like that.

@jimthomas777 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's the Sheriff with that eviction notice again , Just don't answer the door , He will go away

@Mure242 2 жыл бұрын

The Lord said don’t build your house on the sand, where the floods can take it away. Build it on the rock, the Rock of Christ, where nothing can take it away. That being said, here comes another tax hike to build another employee house :/ Hopefully they choose a better site. May I suggest rock?

@gus473 2 жыл бұрын

May I suggest counseling...? 🤔✌🏼😎

@Mure242 2 жыл бұрын

@@gus473, I am counseled by the Holy Spirit and have no need to seek other counsel. Your comment suggests you disagree with my original comment, which is fine, but where did the employee house go?

@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should clean your mouth with buckshot since the councilor didn’t do the job.

@KC12300 2 жыл бұрын

True definition of a mobile home

@helidude3502 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps take the shipping screen protector off the lense🤷‍♂️

@jaimecabrales8514 2 жыл бұрын

Why build next to a river? Not so Brite.

@recoveringsoul755 2 жыл бұрын

Or bright either

@user-dq2ly5ut9j 2 жыл бұрын

So wait that's not supposed to happen

@mypeeps333 2 жыл бұрын

I’m waiting for them to build at the bottom of the volcano 🌋 🤣🤣

@rhuephus 2 жыл бұрын

I built mine at the top ... it makes it easier to see when the lava/magma starts erupting, I make my escape in my jet helicopter

@38cal.36 2 жыл бұрын

Well built home broke away in 1 whole piece

@belamoure 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of nails then superb construction solidly made- it died in one piece - nowadays it would have fritter away in cloud of pieces.

@eugenesant9015 2 жыл бұрын

And here they've been hyping a drought.

@Marlene5018 2 жыл бұрын

Thinking that I could be there sleeping in the middle of the night and suddenly that wet feeling… after five minutes everyone is flouting … 🎈

@harveywabbit9541 2 жыл бұрын

Wet dreams are better.

@rajathooja 2 жыл бұрын

Keep America Great 👍🏼

@kelleygabriel3072 2 жыл бұрын

Well no one in their right minds would put a house there to start with

@samiam1254 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like the Department of Interior should have built their govt employee housing a bit farther inland.....pun definitely intended. Common sense tells you not to build a house on a river bank or flood plain. Just like the subdivisions that was built on an active volcanoe in Hawaii.....I find it hard to have sympathy for stupidity.

@hkguitar1984 2 жыл бұрын

WOW, that building was very sturdily built, it was the location that needed more thought. Location, Location, Location At least it was a Government Building and not someone's personal homestead. Prayers for everyone who has suffered from this event.

@onetuliptree 2 жыл бұрын

I do not know the age of this building, but many buildings in Yellowstone were built 80 - 100+ years ago..

@hkguitar1984 2 жыл бұрын

@@onetuliptree A very good point Eni. It makes more sense now that you point that out. Back in the 1940s structures like these would have been built with the mindset of a public infrastructure project, true +200 year buildings.

@cork6d 2 жыл бұрын

Government knows best.

@alexkx8599 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, shit! So much for that! I wonder how everyone knew to be there and if they were to get whatever stuff and things out of it in time?!

@MsAlien911 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine a few good workers cried when they saw their belongings float away. Glad they were out of the building

@USNWaveRet 2 жыл бұрын

I'll have to ask my son if he knew any of them. He actually lives in employee housing but not far in Yellowstone from Gardiner. They are okay! :)

@jannydots3870 2 жыл бұрын

I am sorry that y’all are going through this. Stay strong. Unfortunately, I live in south east Texas and this is a common occurrence for us during May, and then August and September during Hurricane season. It can be heartbreaking

@SamFrayer 2 жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking how? The National Park Service owned that dwelling, and seasonal employees used it. Seeing float away is no big deal to me. It’s property, not a life, lost.

@carloslandin2553 2 жыл бұрын

Houseboat!

@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 2 жыл бұрын

Nature always wins. Always.

@virginiaswafford7078 2 жыл бұрын

This is just heartbreaking to see.

@angelvpineda8148 2 жыл бұрын

My prayers go out to all those affected by the flooding of the Yellowstone river.

@ccrider3435 2 жыл бұрын

Start with the fish. Their home just received another load of toxic waste.

@lendmeu 2 жыл бұрын

I pray no one was injured and family home will be rebuilt safer and away from water!

@gregknipe8772 2 жыл бұрын

many many memories for hundreds of young adventuresome people.

@danowen9142 2 жыл бұрын

This will take years to clean up and restore.

@gwenechotaylor96 2 жыл бұрын

Heart wrenching to see that. So sorry for the loss of this building and what it means.

@irenebaker8263 2 жыл бұрын

Where did that house end up?

@DocScience2 2 жыл бұрын

Away !!

@Gwaycee 2 жыл бұрын

Houses in America have no foundations??? 😲

@reidjohnson6803 2 жыл бұрын

holy crap. I thought the one wing was going to crumble. Instead, the whole thing went.

@kathyh4804 2 жыл бұрын

Thank God it was evacuated!!! It’s amazing how swiftly water can sweep away buildings

@vivianmolina6302 2 жыл бұрын

The third shaking of the world it's coming and it was never ours to build on. Taking it back furiously and this isnt the end but the beginning of more to come

@mhaskins3769 2 жыл бұрын

God created the heavens and the earth for man, so yeah it is ours to build on.

@russellaustin4988 2 жыл бұрын

Yellowstone said get the f@# out people.

@rulistening7777 2 жыл бұрын

YELLOWSTONE. Human Garbage Allowed to Pour into the Waterway. Such Absolute Negligence. GOOD JOB Pewlosi.

@davehell740 2 жыл бұрын

Yellowstone isn't owned by the U.S.A. BUT WE HAVE TO PAY FOR IT

@steveeddy6876 2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm interesting does China s CCP own it?????

@scottrayhons2537 2 жыл бұрын

Why would you put a building that close to water? Oh, thats right, I did'nt go to college.

@fagsonbalson863 2 жыл бұрын

Nature didn’t want them there😂😂

@wardrobelion 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why they made flood maps in the first place duh🤪

@toddtempleton9321 2 жыл бұрын

somewhere there is an aged park ranger reminiscing about all the hiker muff he conquered in that cabin

@scottrayhons2537 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you know it!😂

@hoatzen7887 2 жыл бұрын

love how we've gotten 2 diff camera angles of this now, so intense!

@HighlanderNorth1 2 жыл бұрын

So you're saying that this WASN'T a houseboat? 😁

@SegoMan 2 жыл бұрын

They kinda forgot to build it on a boat..

@russelmurray9268 2 жыл бұрын

Not originally but you know the mother of necessity

@timdurham8989 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta have that river view.

@matthewbeard1831 2 жыл бұрын

Why would anyone build anything next to a river

@reefread1234 2 жыл бұрын

THESE COMMENTS LET ME LNOW SOCIAL MEDIA HAS MADE YOU ALL HEARTLESS, THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE YOUR NEIGHBORS WE ALL ARE NOT FAR OFF FROM MOUR OWN FOLLIES AND DESTRUCTION LET LOVE IN AND MOVE WITH THAT.

@krisjones4051 2 жыл бұрын

Shoot, it ain’t my house 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

@josephvanwie6706 2 жыл бұрын

They were discharging their bodily wastes into the river, therefore polluting. The river fought back!

@randygiles3456 2 жыл бұрын

IT SELF IDETIFIED AS A HOUSEBOAT DUH

@jessiemerritt9147 2 жыл бұрын

Prayers to the people there effected by this 🙏🏼🙏🏼

@pjplumber2146 2 жыл бұрын

Who was the contractor? That stood and tilted as a single piece till it just couldn’t anymore.

@nolanbowen8800 2 жыл бұрын

It's not that far from where I live. This is terrible. I hope somehow, someway, these people can recover. Yellowstone Park will probably not open this year.

@gabrielford3473 2 жыл бұрын

It'll be back open shortly, with some obvious road closures.

@rippi37 2 жыл бұрын

I thought just the part hanging would collapse into the river....g'zzzz I was wrong !! Wow ...the whole house....I'm shocked ....but that is great vision . I hope they managed to grab their precious belongings (?) and are all OK.

@LIE11Bldg7 2 жыл бұрын

Think I left the stove on

@leviathantoobz 2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. house 🏡

@patriot6350 2 жыл бұрын

Mother nature has a way of reclaiming everything, especially on or near waterways.

@ALIVE8455 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never understand why people film vertical

@thefreedomchopper4027 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely stick built.

@markmarsh27 2 жыл бұрын

wow. .... maybe build the next one a little higher up on the bank.

@jeffreyjones8531 2 жыл бұрын

They sure do not build them like they use to.

@generalkayoss7347 2 жыл бұрын

Witnessed this same thing during a hurricane on the Pamlico River in NC. House was floating right on down the river.

@marigold3687 2 жыл бұрын

Never build near a river.

@jimboslice9472 2 жыл бұрын

why would any1 build in such a spot 🤔

@buttercupdudden2644 2 жыл бұрын

Praying for all to be safe-devastating🙏🙏🙏🙏

@Jm-in6ci 2 жыл бұрын

Hope they save 15% by switching to geico.

@buddyray6792 2 жыл бұрын

I just can't help thinking about who's going to clean all that trash out of the river when it finally comes to rest across probably hundreds of miles of river bank. I'll bet some of it winds up in New Orleans eventually.

@Chrisdabeastman34 2 жыл бұрын

You have no idea what you’re talking about.