The state of Montana has declared a statewide disaster because of historic, widespread flooding in the park. According to a press release from Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, roads, homes, bridges, and the electric grid have all been damaged. Thousands of people have been evacuated from both inside and outside the park due to flooding.
Parts of the park are in Idaho and Montana. The Montana side of the park has been the hardest hit. On Tuesday evening, the National Park Service announced that the entire park will be closed through June 19 and that heavily damaged northern sections will be closed for the rest of the summer season.
Over the weekend, the park and its surrounding area received about 2 to 3 inches of rain, and the warm weather melted more than 5 inches of snow.
The northern part of the park was flooded due to the precipitation and snow melt.
The average number of park visitors in the month of June is between 15000 and 20,000. Over 10,000 people were safely evacuated from the park during the flooding, and thousands more from the other side of the river.
He said that at least five miles of road in the park were completely submerged in water. Hundreds of smaller bridges will need to be assessed for damage after major bridges vanished. There was a lot of debris and mud on the trails.
This is not a single section. Sholly said that this is not going to be easy.
The park and surrounding area were damaged by flooding. The apartment building that was home to six employee families was washed away by the floods in the town of Gardiner, Montana. The structure was floating along the river before it stopped.
It will take time to fully assess and comprehend less obvious impacts. The wastewater management system may be damaged even in the relatively undamaged parts of the park. When the water goes down, park managers are going to conduct more surveys.
The flooding is historic for the area. This is a thousand-year event, whatever that means these days. They seem to happen more often. I don't know what to say about it.
Sholly said that Sunday night's flow rating for the river was 51,000 feet per second, which was much higher than previous high flow levels.
In 1988 there was a natural disaster that shut down the park. Sholly said that the park was closed for two months early in the covid-19 epidemic. He doesn't think we've ever closed the park for flooding.
Although the current flood damage can't be directly attributed to climate change, previous research shows that human-caused climate change is increasing the risk and severity of heavy precipitation events.
Warming temperatures that cause mass snowmelt in the region are becoming more common as atmospheric greenhouse gas levels increase. According to the EPA, Montana has warmed over the past 100 years. Snow melt is happening earlier in the spring as heat waves become more frequent.
The flood waters in the area have partially subsided, but there is still a lot of damage. The water level is still high and the clean-up is still underway. Sholly warned that warm temperatures and more rain could cause another major flooding event in the next few days.
There were 12 or 12.
Where is the governor? His office said he was out of the country, but wouldn't say where.
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