| 31. | The situation improved slightly Monday, with water levels dropping in most regions and ice jams melting slightly.
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| 32. | "There's nothing much you can do with an ice jam except for hope the weather warms up,"
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| 33. | Ice jams continued to clog rivers in northern Maine on Friday, with water backing up into towns.
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| 34. | The week of flooding was blamed on ice jams clogging the Lena River and causing it to overflow.
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| 35. | On Friday afternoon, an ice jam near St . Francis on the St . John River broke loose.
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| 36. | But flooding also occurred when ice jams broke, allowing rushes of deep water to inundate areas farther downstream.
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| 37. | Even if ice jams break, there can still be rapid rises in river levels downstream from the jam.
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| 38. | And officials were worried about ice jams that could cause the river to fluctuate up to 3 feet.
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| 39. | Northern Maine's recent bout with ice jams and flooding came with the unseasonable warm wave early this week.
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| 40. | With an unusual ability to see an old problem in a new light,'t hooft broke the ice jam.
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