First came the flood, now as waves of summer visitors return, there's an outpouring of support and admiration for Yellowstone, the first national park in the world.
As the flood cleanup at Yellowstone National Park grinds on, climate experts and meteorologists say the gap between the destruction and what was forecast underscores a troublesome aspect of climate change: Models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating weather events.
More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation's oldest national park.