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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Breaking ice jams, rapid snowmelt flood homes, businesses and roads across Alaska

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state's few east-west highways down to one lane.

Ice jams on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers caused most of the damage through a large swath of Alaska, while a quick melt of the snowpack caused Moose Creek to overflow near Glennallen, causing delays for motorists on the Glenn Highway which connects Anchorage to points east, including Canada.

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