You’re in the middle of a winter storm and you notice water dripping from the ceiling and icicles forming behind your gutters. The culprit is an ice dam, a phenomenon that happens when melting snow ...

It basically becomes a dam, and water can flood behind it very, very quickly,” said Maureen Hastings, a lead meteorologist at the NWS. “So it's very chaotic and very hard to predict.” ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) — With heavy snowfall blanketing the area in January and very little melt since the storm due to frigid temperatures, residents in the Greater Binghamton Area have reported the ...

Snow and ice can cause serious problems on your roof. Once this wintry mix starts to melt, an ice dam can form in the gutters at the edge of your roof. Water pools behind the block of ice and leaks ...

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Roof cleaning companies in Massachusetts are working overtime to remove ice dams from homes, several days after the biggest snowstorm here in nearly four years. What is an ice dam? Ice dams are caused ...

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