What does 10 TRILLION gallons of water even equate to?
That's one weather prediction for southern California in the next week. Gary Haupt
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BTW, one mile by one mile (5280' by 5280') has 27 million 878 thousand 400 square feet of surface in it. 27,676,400 sq ft in each square mile so it doesn't take many square miles of land surface to old 10 trillion gallons of 3" deep water.
The number of gallons sounds like a huge awe inspiring amount but spread out even 3" deep really doesn't cover much land surface at all in square miles. Remember that one cubic foot contains 7.48 gallons of water and that will only cover (4) 12" by 12" areas (4 sq ft) of surface 3" deep.
Sensationalism (norm for news reports) is used to make it sound far more worse than the amount really is. The real problem is the runoff with no where to contain it properly.
The number of gallons sounds like a huge awe inspiring amount but spread out even 3" deep really doesn't cover much land surface at all in square miles. Remember that one cubic foot contains 7.48 gallons of water and that will only cover (4) 12" by 12" areas (4 sq ft) of surface 3" deep.
Sensationalism (norm for news reports) is used to make it sound far more worse than the amount really is. The real problem is the runoff with no where to contain it properly.
