THE WEIGHT OF A STORM - Every once in a while, a tropical storm or hurricane will dump seven inches of rain on Laurens County, Georgia. A seven-inch rainfall evenly spread over the entire 818 square miles of Laurens County would weigh 4,776,470,300 pounds, or the equivalent weight of 310,156 average African male elephants or 25,165,805 average American male adults. The water would fill a swimming pool with the area of a football field to a depth of 1645 feet or nearly one-third of a mile, more than 5000 average size homes or a canal, seven feet deep and forty feet wide, for a distance of 621.04 miles. It would fill the Empire State Building twenty times or both of the felled World Trade Center Towers six times. If you want to know how many gallons that is, it is 57,271,820.
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