“We can’t go anywhere,” she said. “All the roads out of here are kind of gone right now so we are stuck.”
Kevin Oviedo who works as a porter at the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, which sits inside the park, said in an interview that he’s been trying his best to keep busy at work over the past few days, mostly to pass the time.
“I’ve got nothing better to do,” said Mr. Oviedo, 20, who had no power at his home on Tuesday. “I would just be sitting in a dark room.”
In Paradise Valley, which connects Livingston to Gardiner on Yellowstone’s northern edge, residents watched as the Yellowstone River lapped at roads and took over properties in its path. A station where homeowners could fill sandbags was set up in the Park County fairgrounds.
“It’s a matter of life or death,” Christine Jupe, a Park County resident who was helping steer motorists away from the rising waters, told KBZK News, a television station in Bozeman, Mont.
Johnny Diaz and Jesus Jiménez contributed reporting.
Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/us/yellowstone-rain-flooding.html
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