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The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
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Barriers prevent severe flood damage from a glacial outburst in Alaska
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
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The Weather Channel on MSNSome Juneau Residents Urged To Evacuate As Mendenhall Glacier Releases Floodwater
Residents in the city's flood zone have been urged to leave the area as water has started escaping the ice dam.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started ...
Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
He heard the emergency response and returned home to learn that some riverfront residences had been swept away. “That was my first big experience with the Mendenhall Glacier flood events,” Fagan says.
For two straight summers, an ice dam has burst near the Mendenhall Glacier, sending billions of gallons of water downstream. Last year, almost 300 homes were impacted by the unprecedented flooding.
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