Yellowstone Flooding

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Original article, 9:30 a.m. Monday: Yellowstone National Park has closed roads temporarily in the northern part of the park due to substantial flooding, rockslides and mudslides on roadways due to recent unprecedented amounts of rain. Visitors currently in the northern part of Yellowstone are being evacuated, park officials said.

Some of these roads may remain closed for an extended period of time, park officials said in a news release. Preliminary assessments show multiple sections of road in the park have been washed out between Gardiner and Cooke City, Montana, and multiple bridges might be affected.
There have been "multiple road and bridge failures, mudslides and other issues" in northern Yellowstone, which is being evacuated. Park officials plan to evacuate southern Yellowstone as well.

sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime event.
presumably no impact on the supervolcano
CNN calls this 'unprecedented' flooding

a reply to: ElGoobero

Real unprecedented' flooding or Snowflake unprecedented' flooding ?

I wonder what effects ton's of water have if it reaches a lava chamber tons of steam and pressure i would think .

a reply to: Ravenwatcher
We are thinking along the same lines -

Scientists Map Yellowstone’s Underground ‘Plumbing’ - May 27, 2022

But perhaps most importantly, the map fills an important knowledge gap between what’s happening on the surface and what’s happening in the magma bodies that extend three to 30 miles below ground.

“It’s like a mystery sandwich—we know a lot about the surface features from direct observation and a fair amount about the magmatic and tectonic system several kilometers down from geophysical work, but we don’t really know what’s in the middle,” Steven Holbrook, a geophysicist at Virginia Tech University and one of the study’s authors, says in a statement.

a reply to: MetalThunder
MT I was just recently at Yellowstone and it was surreal. Lakes were entirely empty of water. In fact I could walk my dogs on the lake bottom.
Maybe those lake areas will be able to absorb this excess water? They certainly have room for it.

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
a reply to: ElGoobero

Real unprecedented' flooding or Snowflake unprecedented' flooding ?

I wonder what effects ton's of water have if it reaches a lava chamber tons of steam and pressure i would think .

Massive explosion

a reply to: Thoughtful1
Why are the lake beds where you were so dry in the first place please?
Yellowstone National Park is a big place, 3.5k square miles. Maybe the floods are happening nowhere near where lakebeds are dry.
Just trying to piece a jigsaw together.
Rainbows
Jane

Roads are washing out near me (lower Idaho panhandle); happens every few years. The road runs close to the Lapwai creek in several spots, and is in danger of escaping its banks every year during periods of heavy rain. The ground just can't absorb the water fast enough anymore because of the prolonged drought conditions.
Letting a sponge dry out completely and then pouring water on it is a good example; you get massive runoff until the sponge gets fully hydrated again.

I remember scientists raising the alarm about this back in the 1970's if we didn't find better ways to live, and quit borrowing water from water-rich areas to turn desert areas into oasis and wasting billions of gallons every year for industrial purposes. The danger signs are always ignored in favor of profit until it's a crisis and the Genii is out of the bottle.

It seems every year we're seeing more and more reports of roads being either washed away from flooding, avalanches, and hillside collapse. Throw in the giant sinkholes and I think we've handed Mother Earth a way to fight back, reclaiming her territory. lol

a reply to: nugget1
We had never before seen flooding in B.C. last summer, took out main highways, then unprecedented heat, whole towns burnt down. Right now, not sure what to expect, very wet spring, not much sun..lots of snowpack has not melted yet..might be bad again.

a reply to: vonclod
Weather patterns seem to have drastically shifted all over- solar winds changing their normal pattern are having a big influence, from my understanding. They're going to have to redo climate maps one day soon, I think.

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: vonclod
Weather patterns seem to have drastically shifted all over- solar winds changing their normal pattern are having a big influence, from my understanding. They're going to have to redo climate maps one day soon, I think.

Agree'd, the climate is a changin!

originally posted by: vonclod

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: vonclod
Weather patterns seem to have drastically shifted all over- solar winds changing their normal pattern are having a big influence, from my understanding. They're going to have to redo climate maps one day soon, I think.

Agree'd, the climate is a changin!

Changing too fast recently.
Floods in France, Japan, Brazil and many other places.

originally posted by: Thoughtful1
a reply to: MetalThunder
MT I was just recently at Yellowstone and it was surreal. Lakes were entirely empty of water. In fact I could walk my dogs on the lake bottom.
Maybe those lake areas will be able to absorb this excess water? They certainly have room for it.

Ask yourself where the lake water went. That's a far more interesting discussion.

originally posted by: musicismagic

originally posted by: vonclod

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: vonclod
Weather patterns seem to have drastically shifted all over- solar winds changing their normal pattern are having a big influence, from my understanding. They're going to have to redo climate maps one day soon, I think.

Agree'd, the climate is a changin!

Changing too fast recently.
Floods in France, Japan, Brazil and many other places.

It should be pretty scary, things are changing pretty fast.

originally posted by: vonclod

originally posted by: musicismagic

originally posted by: vonclod

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: vonclod
Weather patterns seem to have drastically shifted all over- solar winds changing their normal pattern are having a big influence, from my understanding. They're going to have to redo climate maps one day soon, I think.

Agree'd, the climate is a changin!

Changing too fast recently.
Floods in France, Japan, Brazil and many other places.

It should be pretty scary, things are changing pretty fast.

I believe I read somewhere that the Earth's axis are shifting and we all know that the ever-slightest shift could be pretty bad.

When groundwater heated by magma rises to the surface and collects in a natural pool, it is called a hot spring. In volcanic areas, groundwater heated by magma is a source of geothermal energy.

This could be a precursor to something terrible