Was it two or three inches of rain that fell? We collected the ceiling drips (again) into several buckets. But of experimental interest was this dining room bucket.
Specifically, this 6 gallon bucket held, when it was all over, about 4 gallons of rain drips.
According to Brad, a Navy blimp operator, to calculate the weight of water (or gas or oil), use the formula GOW-678. One gallon of gas weighs 6 pounds, one gallon of oil weighs 7 pounds, and one gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. So this rain water weighed 32 pounds.
That's much easier than the medical formula that I learned; "A pint's a pound the world around." Too much calculation in that formula. So, GOW-678 it is.
By the way, the roofers are coming soon to gussy up the place, put on a new roof, new windows, new door, and roof over the deck. Meanwhile, while waiting, we calculate the weight of rain in the buckets.
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