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Texas Hurricane Harvey

From the data department, I made a few quick calculations. 1. For the area I live in, as of 5am this morning, more than 23,000,000,000 gallons of rain have fallen. 2. For the city of Houston (627 sq. miles), as of 5am, more than 272,000,000,000 gallons of rain have fallen. 3. How much water is that?  Enough to fill more than 42,000,000 backyard pools measuring 24 ft x 12 ft with a depth grade from 2 ft at one end to 4 ft at the other.  That implies a total volume greater than the sum total of every backyard pool in the USA. A lot of rain!!!