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Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post are getting punchy re: the weird weather
The 3.3 inches in a single hour is the most ever measured. The deluge unloaded 3 billion gallons of water on the city.
How much water is 3 billion gallons?
That amount of water would be enough to fill 27 million whirlpool bathtubs. It could also fill 1.1 million hot air balloons (would that make them water balloons?).
If hot air balloons aren’t your thing, picture this: All that water could also fill the White House — floor to ceiling — 103 times.
All the water that fell on Washington, D.C., Monday would weigh the equivalent of 102 million President Trumps.
Stacked end on end, that would be enough presidents to stretch 120,000 miles – exactly halfway the distance to the moon.
How much water is 3 billion gallons?
That amount of water would be enough to fill 27 million whirlpool bathtubs. It could also fill 1.1 million hot air balloons (would that make them water balloons?).
If hot air balloons aren’t your thing, picture this: All that water could also fill the White House — floor to ceiling — 103 times.
All the water that fell on Washington, D.C., Monday would weigh the equivalent of 102 million President Trumps.
Stacked end on end, that would be enough presidents to stretch 120,000 miles – exactly halfway the distance to the moon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/09/monday-mornings-flash-flood-dc-contained-billion-gallons-water/
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