Officials in northern New York and Vermont are keeping a close eye on rivers across the region as warm weather begins melting ice – which can lead to ice jams. On Sunday, one formed on the Ausable River leading officials to issue a local State of Emergency.
Clinton County Emergency Management Director Eric Day stood on the banks of the Ausable River in Ausable Forks on Sunday taking video as an ice jam flushed out of the hamlet.
“It moved through pretty quickly. I think the river in Ausable Forks is pretty well cleared up. The large jam that was right in the hamlet yesterday morning actually, I don’t know exactly what time it was, it moved downstream and it did let out pretty quickly.”…