![]() Not far from the riverbank, Lindi O’Brien’s trailer home was raised high enough to avoid major damage. The town’s mayor says about a third of the flooded homes are too far gone to be repaired. In and around the agricultural community of Fromberg, the Clarks Fork River flooded almost 100 homes and badly damaged a major irrigation ditch that serves many farms. There’s still no timetable for restoring connections between the park and neighboring portions of Montana where the recovery is expected to stretch for months. Park officials said Sunday that they hope to have most of Yellowstone open within two weeks, as they use a $50 million infusion of federal highway money to accelerate road and bridge repairs. (AP) - With Yellowstone National Park pushing to reopen to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods pounded southern Montana, some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park’s limelight and are leaning heavily on one another to pull their lives out of the mud.
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