This was pretty rare.
Park County has washed out bridges, roads, and left communities and homes isolated," officials said in a June 13 statement posted on the Park County, Montana, Facebook page.According to the AP, floodwaters have potentially pushed a popular fishing river permanently off course, and damaged roadways so badly they may need to be rebuilt.
"Will Yellowstone have a repeat of this in five or even 50 years? Maybe not, but somewhere will have something equivalent or even more extreme," Thomas said. According to, Yellowstone is expected to see"an increase in fires, dying forests, expanding grasslands, more invasive plants and shallower, warmer waterways" over the next few decades as a result of increasing strain from climate change.
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