I took a drive today, I plan to post some pictures later, as far down the valley as I could go until the road closure and then took the Tom Miner detour so I could go look at where the bridge used to be at Carbella. I saw some fragments of it and I think a part of it made it the bridge (US89) about a mile downriver at point of rocks and got hung up for a while which eroded the embankment back causing the road to collapse at the north end of the bridge. So there's a big gap between the land and the intact part of the bridge. I had to get up high to see it.
The river is receding for now but it may flood again in a few days when it gets hot.
Yankee Jim Canyon has been cleaned up enough for tourists to evacuate from Gardiner but they have to brave E. River Rd where it get dicey in some spots.
The rest area got swirled, the whole place is coated with timber and lumber from the Gardiner house and probably pieces of a couple others, all around all the picnic tables. The river actually crossed US89 there and for about a half mile beyond, detritus in all the fences and the fields on both sides of the road are lakes.
Closer to town, South Livingston US89 under construction in the narrows is all wet, the construction crews made a 3' berm to block the river from flowing through the construction, the yard on that side of the road had a current passing through and the roadbed was becoming saturated, a couple thousand feet from the river. And the Carter's Bridge fishing access is completely submerged.
It's a mess, up on the hill where I live, there are lots of RVs up and down the neighborhood housing flood refugees.
Glad I have a warm and dry home to relax in. The biggest issue here is that the city water could become contaminated because the place is right next to the river.
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