This article has recent aerial photos of flooding along the Yellowstone River. These pictures are downstream of the Reed Point area.
Photos: Aerial views of flooding on the Yellowstone
Things are very quiet about Paul in Bozeman. There have been no new articles in the local papers other than the one another poster linked above. I don't know if any response or new tips came from the missing person's poster at the library. There do not appear to be any new searches of the river and Reed Point area scheduled. I don't find this suspicious given the current status of the Yellowstone -- very high and very fast, close to flood stage -- the thorough searches that have already been conducted, and the time that has passed.
My prayers are with Paul's family and friends during this time. I feel that is all we can do to help. They have asked for privacy so the kindest and most compassionate response is to honor that.
I dearly hope they receive answers. If Paul's disappearance is deliberate and the result of an impulse to self-harm, they will be replaying every conversation and interaction with him over and over. Like so many members and visitors to this forum, I personally have had loved ones and friends who have died from homicidal violence as well as suicide and random outdoor recreation accidents. Each loss has its own grief but this limbo of a loved one missing, the not-knowing, is a truly terrible time. It is impossible not to hold on to some hope and not to imagine all possible scenarios.
I have been doing some research on the Timothy Cunningham threads.
Found Deceased - GA - Timothy Cunningham, 35, Chamblee, 12 Feb 2018 #2
Timothy was the CDC investigator who disappeared February 12, 2018. His disappearance made the national news. There were many conspiracy theories circulating on the internet attempting to connect his disappearance to his work with the CDC but his family was concerned because they had received some disturbing phone calls and texts from him. His body was found 50 days later in the Chattahoochee River and his death was recently ruled a suicide by drowning. 50 days feels like much longer when a loved one is missing.