Sam Nolan(JUNEAU, Alaska) Astonished scientists could not have predicted the severity of a glacial lake outburst flood that inundated a large portion of Juneau, Alaska, over the weekend.
Now, they re worried the unprecedented event could happen again.
City officials in Juneau, Alaska, issued an emergency declaration Sunday after a glacier lake outburst flood, from the Suicide Basin on the Mendenhall Glacier, wreaked havoc in the city.
Typically, researchers at the National Weather Service expect a steady flow when a break occurs from Suicide Basin, National Weather Service Juneau hydrologist Aaron Jacobs told ABC News. However, the fast-moving waters bursted out of the basin and flowed furiously through the Mendenhall River and into the Mendenhall Lake, eroding river embankments along the way.
The sheer force of Mother Nature was on full display and nearly difficult to fathom as the energy from the fast-moving waters were able to decimate hillsides, homes and 100-foot trees,
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Raging waters from a weekend outburst of water from a glacier-dammed lake destroyed at least two buildings and damaged others before floodwaters receded in Alaska’s capital city of Juneau. Water
Raging waters from a weekend outburst of water from a glacier-dammed lake destroyed at least two buildings and damaged others before floodwaters receded in Alaska’s capital city of Juneau. Water