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When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and ...
Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
Because the flooding has been a growing concern, city officials have installed emergency flood barriers along several miles ...
An overflowing glacial lake at the foot of Suicide Glacier north of Juneau, Alaska, caused the Mendenhall River to surge to ...
After waters peaked at 16.65 feet, newly installed HESCO barriers and early alerts spared schools, homes and businesses from ...