when the snow finally melts . . .

[reeeeeeeeflex]

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. . . are we gonna have a ton of flooding?

Comments

[dobie]

Yes... I'm sure we will and here is why (And please, I'm not a math major, so if anyone can check my math, I'd appreciate it

[copout]

This looks good except, where did the "5.05 gallons per cubic foot" figure come from? There are about 7.5 gallons in a cubic foot of water, but a foot of snow generally melts to under an inch of water - maybe an inch for this snow since it was pretty wet/dense.

[dobie]

I based that on the figure of 220,000 gallons per acre-foot (i.e., one acre of land covered to a depth of 1 foot)

[jillkatherine]

Although your calculations are correct, it doesn't work my way. See my entry below on sublimation.

[dobie]

Yeah, a friend of mine pointed out to me offline that much of the snow would end up evaporating and sublimating as well...

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But it's still fun to think about a trillion gallons of water laying around on the ground ;) :D