Post by Poor Richard on May 10, 2023 19:23:10 GMT -7
Nearly a year later, workers still clearing pieces of homes and roads from '22 Montana floods
KBZK reports "Many in Montana want to know where the homes that fell into the state’s waterways during the historic flooding of June 2022 are today.
Montana Disaster and Emergency Services officials say some washed up onto sand bars, but most are disintegrated and long gone, with pieces pulled from Montana creeks and rivers and piled at one of six debris sites.
The entire cleanup project is expected to clear up to 100,000 cubic yards of debris and take a few months. Crews began work in mid-April, and about 6,000 cubic yards of debris has been removed.
Park City resident Mike Kinsey’s home toppled into the Yellowstone River last June and was carried five miles downstream, lodging on a sand bar.
“It was pretty dramatic when it left here," says Kinsey describing where his log home used to be. “This is where the house sat and this was the very back of the house. These are my water lines going out to where my house was out here. Other than a miracle, I don't know what I'm going to do here.”
Kinsey is a veteran who built his home with telephone poles and a chainsaw over four years. It was his primary residence, and he now lives in an RV on the property."
Read the full story here.
Montana Disaster and Emergency Services officials say some washed up onto sand bars, but most are disintegrated and long gone, with pieces pulled from Montana creeks and rivers and piled at one of six debris sites.
The entire cleanup project is expected to clear up to 100,000 cubic yards of debris and take a few months. Crews began work in mid-April, and about 6,000 cubic yards of debris has been removed.
Park City resident Mike Kinsey’s home toppled into the Yellowstone River last June and was carried five miles downstream, lodging on a sand bar.
“It was pretty dramatic when it left here," says Kinsey describing where his log home used to be. “This is where the house sat and this was the very back of the house. These are my water lines going out to where my house was out here. Other than a miracle, I don't know what I'm going to do here.”
Kinsey is a veteran who built his home with telephone poles and a chainsaw over four years. It was his primary residence, and he now lives in an RV on the property."
Read the full story here.