Hurricane Harvey

[RKA]

[member=3373]Dovetail65[/member]
He meant 207 miles squared, not square miles.  So 42,849 square miles.  I think he was just trying to visualize the size of the area.  It's about 1/3 of Germany. 

 

[Naildrivingman]

Wait a minute both Tennessee and Vriginia are over 41,000 sq miles in size, far larger than  207 sq miles.

No state is only 207 Sq miles, even Rhode Island is more than 7 times that at about 1500 sq miles..

Did I read your post wrong? I think your number of 207 sq miles is wrong. If it is correct than your figures for states size are incorrect or I read it wrong.

9,000,000,000,000 gallons of water, 7.48 gallon covers 1 cubic foot
http://www.montecitowater.com/how_many_gallons_of_water_in_a_c.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/stateknow/popchart.html

Yeah it's a lot of water in a short Period of time no matter the exact figures.

I wrote 207 miles squared or 207 miles X 207 miles

 

[Bob D.]

I took all the money I had in my PayPal account that I got from
selling off stuff I no longer needed and was going to put toward
my next tool purchase and gave it to the Red Cross earmarked
it for Hurricane Harvey support.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-harvey

I can buy more tools some day, those people need help NOW.

 

[deepcreek]

I took all the money I had in my PayPal account that I got from
selling off stuff I no longer needed and was going to put toward
my next tool purchase and gave it to the Red Cross earmarked
it for Hurricane Harvey support.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-harvey

I can buy more tools some day, those people need help NOW.

[member=60461]Bob D.[/member] That's an amazing act of generosity.  Thank you so very much.

p.s.  Love your avatar but I had to squint! 

 

[Bob D.]

I took all the money I had in my PayPal account that I got from
selling off stuff I no longer needed and was going to put toward
my next tool purchase and gave it to the Red Cross earmarked
it for Hurricane Harvey support.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-harvey

I can buy more tools some day, those people need help NOW.

[member=60461]Bob D.[/member] That's an amazing act of generosity.  Thank you so very much.

p.s.  Love your avatar but I had to squint!

Thanks for the comment on the avatar. It came from this thread (no squinting required).
A nice piece of work that jjowen did and I liked it so much I made it my avatar.
http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-tools-accessories/holy-rail-question/msg507028/#msg507028

 

[deepcreek]

Here's an interesting article on why Hurricane Harvey caused so much damage.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvey-finally-fizzles-look-made-125458107.html?.tsrc=fauxdal

I drove through some of the worst hit areas yesterday to help an acquaintance with flood remediation.

It is absolutely heart wrenching to see both sides of every street piled high with the debris of peoples' homes and everything they own.

So very, very sad.

Joe

 

[#Tee]

Irma's the one to watch now...the east coast is going to get slammed

 

[Sparktrician]

While the Red Cross has greater name recognition, they recently got slammed for the relatively high administrative overhead.  They spend 11% on administrative costs, and it costs them $30 to raise $100.  (https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/american-red-cross/360)  The Salvation Army was on the news locally promising that 100% of donations to Harvey relief for Houston would be used for that purpose.