Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice and stranded icebergs in a basin between the Mendenhall Glacier and one of its smaller tributaries, Suicide Glacier. That indicated water had just drained as a glacial dam released and caused the flood.

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier.

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release water.

The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to release floodwaters into Mendenhall Lake.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a state disaster due to the "imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake outburst flood" in the Juneau area.

Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream from Suicide Basin,

By Wednesday morning, the floodwaters racing down from what’s called Suicide Basin rose to record levels, faster than scientists had predicted the day before.

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially record surge of flooding toward parts of Juneau in what has become an annual

The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska declared their own, preemptive disaster declaration ahead of the glacial outburst flood on Friday, as first reported by KTOO.