SHOCKING footage has captured the moment an SUV trying to escape flooding in Yellowstone National Park was nearly crushed under a rockslide.
An Instagram user who was in the area managed to record the scary incident in an eight-second clip.
In the video, taken by Instagram user Anne Leppold, the SUV can be seen driving down a paved road at Gardiner's North Entrance station on Sunday.
The vehicle then hits the brakes when rocks begin tumbling down in front of the car.
After the car stops, the rocks continue to fall down the side of the mountain.
The SUV then brakes and the rocks tumble down in front of it.
In the video's caption, Leppold wrote that the SUV's "riders seemed okay luckily."
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Reason why Yellowstone National Park has had to close
The rockslide happened as the entire national park continues to battle treacherous weather conditions.
On June 14, park rangers closed all entrances to the park as the park has received two or three months worth of rain in just three days.
The park is scheduled to reopen on June 16, but this may change based on weather and road conditions.
Rangers have not reported any injuries or deaths associated with the bad weather events.
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Cam Sholly, the park's superintendent, told People that parks are closed due to "record flooding events and more precipitation in the forecast."
"Our first priority has been to evacuate the northern section of the park where we have multiple road and bridge failures, mudslides and other issues," Sholly said.
Many areas of the park are facing power outages as access to towns and communities is being shut off.
"Many sections of road in these areas are completely gone and will require substantial time and effort to reconstruct," the park told People.
"The National Park Service will make every effort to repair these roads as soon as possible; however, it is probable that road sections in northern Yellowstone will not reopen this season due to the time required for repairs."
All overnight visitors have been asked to leave the park as crews assess flood damages and wait for water levels to go down.
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has declared a statewide disaster, sending rescue and relief crews to the parks and towns effected.
"Severe flooding is destroying homes, washing away roads and bridges, and leaving Montanans without power and water services," Gianforte said in a statement.
This record flooding is being attributed to rising summer temperatures that have hastened snow melting, causing run-off from the park's mountains and peaks.
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More than 10,000 visitors were evacuated from the park.
"We lost all our belongings in the basement,'" Montana resident Heidi Hoffman told the Daily Mail. "Yearbooks, pictures, clothes, furniture. We're going to be cleaning up for a long time."
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