Sholly noted some weather forecasts include the possibility of additional flooding this weekend.ĭays of rain and rapid snowmelt wrought havoc across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, where it washed away cabins, swamped small towns and knocked out power. They seem to be happening more and more frequently," he said. "I've heard this is a 1,000-year event, whatever that means these days. The park could remain closed as long as a week, and northern entrances may not reopen this summer, Superintendent Cam Sholly said. The only visitors left in the massive park straddling three states were a dozen campers still making their way out of the backcountry. The unprecedented flooding drove more than 10,000 visitors out of the nation's oldest national park and damaged hundreds of homes in nearby communities, though remarkably no was reported hurt or killed. "A little bit ironic that this spectacular landscape was created by violent geologic and hydrologic events, and it's just not very handy when it happens while we're all here settled on it." "The landscape literally and figuratively has changed dramatically in the last 36 hours," said Bill Berg, a commissioner in nearby Park County.
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