It's always amazing to me how destructive and massive hurricanes really are when they make landfall. My brain just can't imagine the amount of damage they cause. And I live in 'Tornado Alley" for cryin' out loud!

Hurricane Helene and the storms that followed it dumped an incredible 40 trillion gallons of rain since it hit this past week. That's enough to fill more than 60 million Olympic-size swimming pools. According to a news report I saw, it's also enough to fill Lake Tahoe.

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That got me thinking, "How many Lake Alan Henrys is that?" 

Well, thanks to the internet, I can tell you with this comparison...

  • Lake Tahoe has a volume of approximately 39 trillion gallons or 122 million acre-feet. It is also the largest lake in North America, with a surface area of about 191 square miles. Tahoe is also one of the deepest lakes in the country with a maximum depth of 1,645 feet
  • Lake Alan Henry has a volume of approximately 98,000 acre-feet or around 31.9 billion gallons. The surface area is about 11.6 square miles and, surprisingly to me, it has a maximum depth of only 100 feet.

So, in summary, Lake Tahoe holds about 1,222 times more water than Lake Alan Henry.

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You could fill Lake Alan Henry 1,222 times with the rain that's fallen since just last Thursday. Also, the calculation was only for rain that fell through Sunday, and 1 to 2 trillion MORE gallons of rain may have fallen since then!

Meaning, just the AFTERMATH could fill Alan Henry an additional 62 times and have enough left over to fill Buffalo Springs Lake a few times!

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