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Fast-flowing kankekee in illinois seemingly frozen to a halt. during the summer this is a very popular place to go boating. right now it looks like a glacier landscape in alaska. most residents have either left for the season or left out of fear. >> how concerned are you what happens when it starts to thaw and becomes water? >> that's when we've got the problem. that's when you've got the story. because that's when the water is going to come up like a backed up toilet. ice is going to come up and take out everything in its path. it's nothing but destruction. it's like somebody took a bulldozer...

When this stuff starts to move, get out of the way because it takes out everything. it takes out trees, earth, anything in its way. you're starting to see it here in kankankee, actually. you can see it along the side of the river here. there are homes and the ice jam is coming dangerously close to some of these homes. joe joe broad well, they call him the mayor here on the little stretch of the kankankee river, he's here with his cat slayer. you've been here your entire life and you've never seen anything like this. give us an idea of what is happening with your home here along the banks. >> h...

Stake. cnn's ted rowlands is there for us. ted? >> reporter: wolf, take a look at this. it's absolutely incredible, this ice jam. we're on the banks of the kankakee river an hour south of chicago. look at these massive chunks of pipes they go on for as far as the eye can see. just a few days ago, they weren't here. the river was frozen, but it was smooth. what happened was we had a few days of warm weather, which started the melting process and got the ice moving, and then it froze up again. and this is the result. the problem, of course, the danger of this is that the massive force that this ...

Ice jam on the kankakee river about an hour from chicago. my goodness, my friend. looking at you, i'm cold looking at you. me what's going on behind you. >> well, the fact that you brought up the cold is a good thing. look at this ice jam. what's happening now because of the cold weather, it's not moving. the river below it is moving and draining which is a good thing. the ice jam theoretically will go down soon. about three or four days ago it wasn't here. we had warm weather and it foreign and now look at it. the problem is the force that this ice jam and any other has when it is on the road...

It may be just too much too fast. it is threatening right now flash floods and landslides there. indra petersons is tracking all of it for us. >> i keep hearing the word, it has been a miserable winter. detroit, the first worst miserable winter since we've been keeping records. i can go on and on, and unfortunately more cold air and another big snowstorm still headed our way. for much of the country, february is ending on a low note. another arctic blast brings subzero temperatures to the midwest and sinks temperatures below the freezing mark as far south as florida. just look at this ice jam ...