• The Yellowstone River floods Mallard's Rest campground, near Yellowstone National Park, in Paradise Valley, Montana, on Tuesday. Yellowstone Park, punished over four days by record rains and melting snow that caused floods and mudslides and drove more than 10,000 visitors to safety, will remain closed for about a week. | LOUISE JOHNS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    The Yellowstone River floods Mallard's Rest campground, near Yellowstone National Park, in Paradise Valley, Montana, on Tuesday. Yellowstone Park, punished over four days by record rains and melting snow that caused floods and mudslides and drove more than 10,000 visitors to safety, will remain closed for about a week. | LOUISE JOHNS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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GARDINER, Montana – Before evacuating their rental cabin on the edge of Yellowstone National Park, the Manning family watched a nearby house plunge from the riverbank into the raging, flood-swollen waters.

“The earth off the bank was coming off in sheets,” said Parker Manning, who had traveled from Terre Haute, Indiana, to Yellowstone with his family for a summer vacation.

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