Delivery trucks should be able to get back into town today but access to Gardiner will generally be limited for a long time. Rebecca Demery and her husband own Gardiner's only grocery store which has been largely cleared out.
"But we just realize we have to make the best of a bad situation, there's nothing we can do about it." "Everybody's a little bit stressed," said Manning. Parker Manning, a visitor stranded in Gardiner on Monday sent NPR's Kirk Siegler photos of a large house falling into the Yellowstone river, which runs alongside the town of about 800 residents. The two-lane road was reopened to local traffic Tuesday midday with speed limits of 35 mph and warnings from authorities to leave immediately as they anticipate more flooding over the weekend. Gardiner, a town just outside the park's busy north entrance, was cut off from road access for around 24 hours after flood waters washed out sections of U.S. They've flown at least two missions, and rescued 12 people from a flooded area Monday night. Montana's National Guard deployed two helicopters to help with rescues near the towns of Roscoe and Cooke City. "It is likely that the northern loop will be closed for a substantial amount of time," Park Superintendent Cam Sholly wrote in a statement Monday. Video from a National Park Service helicopter taken Monday afternoon shows large swaths of the road near the park's northern entrance destroyed and water rushing just underneath bridges. Officials are still trying to evacuate backcountry park visitors. A statement on the park website Tuesday says entrances will remain closed until at least Wednesday. The Park Service closed the northern entrances to the park Monday morning, then expanded the closure to all the parks' entrances two hours later. It issued flood warnings for area rivers through Tuesday evening.
Heavy rain falling on snowpack in area mountain ranges is swelling rivers to "unprecedented" levels, the National Weather Service says. Thousands of visitors and residents found themselves stranded as nearby communities saw evacuations and historic damage. Yellowstone National Park remains closed after record-breaking floods hit Monday. High water levels in the Lamar River eroding the Northeast Entrance Road.
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