06-18-2022, 05:35 PM
(06-17-2022, 02:32 AM)grampahol Wrote: It's an area I spent quite a bit of time years back. When it floods it comes really fast being a lot of the runoff comes down the mountains. I lived just the other side of the mess just to the west of the continental divide in Darby..Minor floods on the west side of the divide, but no significant damage to homes..
My brother was north of it in Great Falls at Malmstron AFB..
BEAUTIFUL area, but tough luck for the folks around Red Lodge and down around Yellowstone.. It'll take years to fix everything.. A lot of the area was hit by major fires a few years back. The area I lived looks more like a moonscape these days than it did when I lived there in Ravalli County..just bare mountains left in a lot of areas, but it's growing back bit by bit..
My Dad was born in Great Falls and we live about 70 or so miles south of the floods. Crazy. Wild that I have never been to
Yellowstone Park and went through it and I live so close. I have worked as a plumber up Pacific Creek which is in the Park
but is a private community full of rich folk. Grizzlies all over the place. Had to really look out when you went outside to shut
off hose bibs and such cause you could just run right into a Grizzly right around the corner at anytime.
The people we worked for saw 3 Grizzlies the day before we went and turned their water on. Wild place even though it is so
close to where I live the trees are just different. All gnarly and shit. Just a neat area, too bad a lot of it is getting destroyed
by the floods, they had tons of snow up there from what people were telling me all the while we had a mild winter and we
aren't far away.
