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Originally Posted by Crowbob
There are 43,560 sq ft in an acre. Times 3 ft deep equals 130,680 cubic feet of water 3 feet deep per acre. There are 7.48 gallons of water per cubic foot. So there are 977,486 gals/acre.
In addition, that water is not static as in filling a pool. It moves, and moves rapidly. A gallon of water equals 8.35 pounds. So there's the rough equivalent of 8,162,011 pounds of mass per acre in motion.*
Add the wind force and tidal surge and you have a pretty soggy environment.
*All calculations are subject to revision as I can't do maths too good.
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Originally Posted by willtel
I'm not a math guy but I found this on a Google search of "inches of rain to gallons per acre".
So wouldn't that mean that 30" of rain on an acre would equate to 814,620 gallons?
Again I'm not a math guy.
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It always boggles my mind when I look at the flooding and all that mass of water and realize, it all fell out of the sky! It just does not seem possible.