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 ...

Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...

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

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska's capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...

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.

An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof caused by uneven surface temperatures across your roof. These dams can cause big problems with leaking in your home.

If an ice dam breaks free, it could damage anything it falls on. Removing ice dams from your property can also help reduce significant heat loss from your home. Related coverage ...

Ice dams can create a laundry list of problems, from damaging your shingles to icicles falling and hitting someone. Vanbeck says if there's too much ice on your gutters, they could be ripped off ...

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 ...

Remember that ice dams originate in roof valleys and eaves, where the lower temperature freezes fresh snow melt. This means that you don't need to attack the entire roof of snow.

After warning residents to prepare to evacuate, Alaska officials confirmed water from the ice dam was flowing downstream, ...