💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>‘Unprecedented’ Flooding Hits Juneau, Alaska, After Glacier Outburst<br />--<br /><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/07/climate/alaska-juneau-flooding-glacier-outburst-climate/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2024/08/07/climate/ala</span><span class="invisible">ska-juneau-flooding-glacier-outburst-climate/index.html</span></a> &lt;-- shared media article<br />--<br />“A rush of water unleashed by an ailing glacier swelled an Alaska river to record levels Tuesday and caused destructive flooding in Juneau nearly a year to the date of a similar significant event.<br />More than 100 homes have been damaged or impacted by the so-called glacial lake outburst flooding along the Mendenhall River in the Mendenhall Valley, according to city officials, who characterized the flood severity as “unprecedented.”<br />Glacial lake outbursts happen when a lake of melting snow and ice and rain “drains rapidly…”<br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>glacier</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>risk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hazard</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>flood</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>flooding</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hydrology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Juneau" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Juneau</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/melt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>melt</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/meltwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meltwater</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacieroutburst" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>glacieroutburst</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/naturalhazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>naturalhazard</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glaciallake" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>glaciallake</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MendenhallRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MendenhallRiver</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MendenhallGlacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MendenhallGlacier</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/suicidebasin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>suicidebasin</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>damage</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/urbanplanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>urbanplanning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/warming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>warming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SuicideGlacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SuicideGlacier</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GLOF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GLOF</span></a></p>