Breathtaking moment an avalanche comes within feet of crushing Alaskan homes

Alaska's capital Juneau is on alert after the city saw its third avalanche in five weeks.
A terrifying snow slide nearly crushed multiple homes on Friday, leaving mountains of debris on neighborhood streets.
City residents were advised to be cautious of weak layers of snow due to recent wet weather and temperatures above freezing.
One resident, Carole Triem captured the avalanche on video as it cascaded down Mount Juneau.
Triem said she heard an unusual sound when she left an indoor swimming pool in downtown Juneau after her Friday morning workout. Initially, she had thought the startling noise was thunder, 'which is strange because we don't get thunder here in Juneau.'
Instead, what she saw was a massive avalanche coming down from 2,500 feet. The avalanche was about 300 feet wide and 10 to 20 feet deep, Anchorage Daily News reported.
An avalanche in Alaska's capital city isn't an unusual event after several this year. But what was different for Triem, she said, was that she was able to pull her phone out and capture most of it on a 70-second video.
'I looked up, and I think I caught the very beginning of it,' she said. 'I think I got pretty lucky.'
She didn't feel like she was in any danger since she was far enough away from it, and didn't feel a whoosh of air from the avalanche.
'I couldn't feel anything different from where I was standing, just normal cold and wet,' she said of Juneau's typical weather.
Juneau Police Lt. David Campbell said there were no injuries and no homes were struck in this southeast Alaska city sandwiched by mountains and the ocean.
Local emergency manager Tom Mattice said the avalanche, an edge of which spilled onto a city street near a house, hit a gate and van. The mangled gate had included an avalanche warning sign.
Residents had been warned of heightened avalanche danger on Mount Juneau as the city has been hit by recent rainfall.
Triem caught not only the avalanche on video, but also more moisture - this time in the form of waterfalls - that followed the snow down the mountain.