KETCHUM, Idaho — Two avalanches hit Warm Springs Road near Ketchum on Sunday, one of which seriously damaged two homes, knocking one of the homes off its foundation.
In the last week, Blaine County has experienced a dozen avalanches and now crews are beginning to clear the aftermath of them and find others that happened.
The backcountry areas of Blaine County is still under avalanche warning following the avalanches, according to the Sawtooth Avalanche Center.
The Center expects the danger to decrease in the coming days.
Ethan Davis, the lead forecaster for the Sawtooth Avalanche Center, says avalanches are very common in the spring months because the dry snowpack is starting to melt and get wet from the rain.
"The type of avalanche we're seeing in the last 12 hours or so is a wet slab avalanche and essentially it's a big slab of snow that has been weakened by water," Davis said. "And what that does is disconnect it from the hillside, allowing all the snow to come down."
Viewers were able to film one avalanche that toppled trees and rumbled down a mountain, showing that its still avalanche season is parts of Idaho.
Victoria Jensen saw an avalanche from her own patio of her home on Whipsaw Lane in Ketchum. The one she saw was one of the two that raced down the mountain destroyed the two homes.
"It was like in slow motion," Jensen said. "It was amazing, just how powerful nature is."
"It didn't look that ferocious, but it sounded ferocious and then it go to the tree line and the trees were going down and snapping and then it pushed through the house, knocking them off its foundation," she said.
On Tuesday, crews spent the day looking for other avalanches in the area. They say they are taking advantage of clearer skies and trying to get a better sense of the pattern of where those avalanches happened.
Thanks to better visibility, they expect the number of avalanches that are found to increase.