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Hurricane Harvey (2017) dropped a record amount of water on the US. How many gallons of rain fell in total?
33 trillion
gallons
33,000,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
Harvey dumped an estimated 33 trillion gallons of water — enough to fill the Great Salt Lake twice, from a single storm.SOURCENASA / NOAA rainfall analysis
Scale check: 33 trillion is roughly seconds in 320,000 years.
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