40 Trillion Gallons Of Storm Rain Hit America’s South
According to the AP, Hurricane Helene and its aftermath dumped 40 trillion gallons of water on America’s southern regions. It is enough to fill Lake Tahoe, one of the largest freshwater lakes in America. “That’s an astronomical amount of precipitation,” Ed Clark, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, told the wire service.
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Meteorologist Ryan Maue posted on X, “Total rainfall east of the Mississippi for the past 5-days including an upper-level low and Hurricane Helene: over 40 Trillion gallons.” That means the figure is complex to verify.
$160 Billion
None of the numbers thrown around about the amount of rain or damages is accurate. AccuWeather recently said total storm damage was as much as $160 billion. However, that included obscure data like future forecasts of lost wages, which are impossible to forecast.
Storms of this magnitude have become press and PR circus, which mask, to some extent, the immensity of the tragedy.
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