A tropical storm watch has been issued and mandatory evacuations are underway along the coast of North Carolina, as Hurricane ...

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...

A water basin in Alaska is overflowing its ice dam, the Mendenhall Glacier, and flooding the state capital, Juneau. Experts ...

The NWS in Juneau issued a flood warning for parts of the area around the Mendenhall River. A "crest" is expected Wednesday ...

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...

Keep an eye out Chicago-area homeowners, it’s ice dam season. Ice dams caused by melting snow can cause water to leak into houses. The best way to deal with ice dams is to prevent them from forming.

Ice dams are particularly common during the winter in colder environments. "As snow lays on your roof, a pattern of thawing and re-freezing can occur," shares Michael DiMartino, SVP of ...

Ice dams are an issue many of us may not be familiar with because we don't typically have to deal with them here in southwest Idaho. But with this long, intense winter, a lot of people are.

How ice dams form Because of heat from the home and the sun, snow on a rooftop melts and runs down to the edges. Since the edges of the rooftop aren't as warm, some of the runoff freezes and forms ...

Ice dams form as snow begins to melt with the escaping heat of the house's attic, runs down the roof and refreezes at the non-heated edges, jamming up gutters. With nowhere to go, the water backs ...