This is the moment a whole house fell into a raging river in YellowstoneNationalPark. Tourists are stranded after record floodwaters took out roads and bridges around the now-closed park. Read the full story here: Yellowstoneflood ClimateCrisis
The Yellowstone River hit has a historic high flow from rain and snow melt from the mountains in and around Yellowstone National Park.Emergency crews scrambled on Tuesday to reopen roads and restore utility service in isolated United States communities of Montana and Wyoming cut off by historic floods that forced the first summertime closure of Yellowstone National Park in more than three decades.
The disaster comes amid growing concern about climate change-fuelled extreme weather around the world. "Amazing to consider that in past 12 hours the U.S. West has seen devastating flooding in Montana near Yellowstone, extreme wildfire activity in Arizona that visually resembles an erupting volcano amid drought, & post-wildfire debris flows in northern California," he wrote on Twitter.Authorities were also working evacuate stranded visitors from the park, which is expected to remain closed at least through mid-week.