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Yep

I used to have to figure acre inches of water and acre feet for work

27,154 gallons to put 1” of water on a square acre

Had a lengthy argument once with an engineer over the capacity of a pond he wanted. He had it all figured out how much water the pond would hold from his 5 acre lot in a 6” rain

He never could grasp the concept of what happens when the pond is already filled up to begin with

That’s what happens when an electronical engineer thinks he knows everything about all types of engineering

I’m just a ditchdigger, so I dug it, took his money and laughed the first time we got a big rain and the pond overflowed

Thanks— didn’t have to look it up. We do rainfall calculations in re: the filling of a farm pond based on the acreage of the pond, calculated. It’s a two plus acre pond by calculation, and so— if the water comes up on the gauge one foot from prior level, then it means— at a minimum—

2 acres x 325,851= 651,702 gallons of water flowed into and fell as rain into— the pond. Plus the amount %age of acreage above 2 acres that is the full area covered by the pond.

Water is impressive- when thought of this way. To do this for the entire oceans of the world— is beyond anything these idiots have said it would be, certainly not a large chunk of glacier— for the entire ocean level of the world. Just NO possible way.

thanks for the Acre-Foot. Somewhere someone has calculated or mapped the number of acres of the World, covered by ocean. Gonna work that out if I can find it— the amount of water that would then need to be “melted” for a 1 foot increase.