While a Montana home slipped into the Yellowstone River, hundreds of people were evacuated and entire cities were forced to ration water supplies after treatment plants became swamped from the historic flooding that swept through the state and neighbouring Wyoming this past week, there was one figure noticeably missing from the scene: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte.
Reporters from the Montana Free Press and other local news agencies began querying the governor’s office this week after noticing that the state’s lieutenant governor, Kristen Juras, had signed a declaration of disaster on Tuesday in lieu of Mr Gianforte in response to the damage caused by the historic flooding.
