Putting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
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In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the coast of Texas. It was not only one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the United States, it was also one of the most destructive: Days of historic rain, and devastating floods. How do we comprehend a storm like this? [INTRO] Hurricane Harvey is hard to put in perspective. It forces us to make some pretty strange comparisons. Harvey dropped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of rain, and that’s been compared to a cube with 2.8 mile sides, a giant raindrop floating over Manhattan, four Great Salt Lakes, or 65 weeks of Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls pouring over Texas. Or roughly the equivalent to the volume of 40,882,455 olympic swimming pools. I don’t know about you, but I can’t picture that many swimming pools. None...
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In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the coast of Texas. It was not only one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the United States, it was also one of the most destructive: Days of historic rain, and devastating floods. How do we comprehend a storm like this? [INTRO] Hurricane Harvey is hard to put in perspective. It forces us to make some pretty strange comparisons. Harvey dropped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of rain, and that’s been compared to a cube with 2.8 mile sides, a giant raindrop floating over Manhattan, four Great Salt Lakes, or 65 weeks of Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls pouring over Texas. Or roughly the equivalent to the volume of 40,882,455 olympic swimming pools. I don’t know about you, but I can’t picture that many swimming pools. None...
