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Juneau Running Out Of Room To Dump Record Snow As It Races To Dig Out Before Rain Arrives
image from: weather.com
Juneau, Alaska, is racing to remove mountains of snow from across the city before rain turns a snow emergency into disastrous flooding. Flood watches are now in effect across the Alaska Panhandle for Friday into Saturday night.
As of Thursday morning, at least 34 inches of snow remained on the ground at Juneau International Airport after back-to-back storms. Teams of workers and volunteers are shoveling rooftops, digging out vehicles and sunken boats and hauling out truckloads of snow.
But the city is running out of places to pile up all that precipitation.
(READ MORE - weather.com)
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