In other words, if there is no more rain in the next week or two these levels likely will be manageable in Western Canada and Washington, Idaho and Montana. However, if we get more rain in certain places then all hell could break loose like it did in Yellowstone with three times the highest rainfall they have ever had on record.
In other words the record of water in the Yellowstone river was about 31,000 cubic feet per second from about 1996. When we stayed near Livingston it was at 26,000 when we moved into our cabin on the river. The next day it had broken the record with 33,600 cubic feet per second in the river.
However, in the end it was 87,000 plus feet per second which took out 4 miles of road and many homes between Gardiner and Livingston and further on down the river.
The Yellowstone river eventually empties into the Missouri River and that eventually empties into the Mississippi river by the way and winds up in the Gulf of Mexico.
We aren't sure whether the cabin we stayed in washed away or not but looking at the news we saw cabins like we had stayed in in the river which looked exactly like the one we had stayed in.
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