Yellowstone River flood

[trebor44]

Rain on snow makes some great wet slush avalanches, plasticity at work!

[Minerat]

Rain on snow makes some great wet slush avalanches, plasticity at work!

and low coefficients of friction.

[GregLaROCHE]

Anyone heard how long it was going to take to get repaired?

[trebor44]

The North entrances aren't going to happen this year, unless roads are built in new locations or we defund Ukraine to pay the reconstruction costs!

[abunaitoo]

Been there only once, when I was really young.
I enjoyed it all.
Sat outside of Old Faithful at dawn watching it spout.
All the other geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and animals.
Sister and I got a kick out of feeding the squirrels.
Mother Nature is amazing.
To many tourist everywhere these days.
We have nothing but problems with them.
But with the money they bring in, the gooberment ignores the peoples complaints.
Was kind of nice when we had the shut down.

[Beerd]

Anyone heard how long it was going to take to get repaired?

the work is going to be done in the flood zone.
how long will it take to get it PERMITTED?
..

[trebor44]

Does NPS need a permit? What about NEPA requirements?

[Minerat]

When the roadways on the St Vrain river got wiped out in September 2013 like this, the work took about 18 months and there was no discussion of permits as they were essential for moving people into and out of trapped communities. They had rough roads done along the creek in a couple of months and it looked like the Gardner road when they started.

[kerplode]

Anyone heard how long it was going to take to get repaired?

The damage I've seen in Yellowstone looks very similar to the Big Thompson flood of 2013. Temporary repairs to the main road were pretty quick...Maybe a month. It took ages to get the permanent repairs done to the main and surrounding roads and repair/rebuild the banks and bridges, though. I'd say close to 2 years IIRC.

edited to add: The area Minerat mentioned in the post above was damaged in this same flood.

[MT Gianni]

NPS property on Park grounds, I am not sure of the permitting process if any. Elevating the road above the 100 year flood plane could be really expensive.