[Magdalen] Morning, afternoon.

[Ann Markle]

Don't forget though that a cubic meter of snow isn't even close to a cubic
meter of water, because of the volume of the snow/ice itself.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 15/02/2015 00:29, Ann Markle wrote:
>
>> And I would be willing to share several feet of ours, if I could!  At one
>> point we completely ran out of space to put snow (maybe a couple of
>> decades
>> ago?), and loaded it in dump trucks and freight trains that were headed
>> south.  It melted along the way!  I wish we could get it to you soon
>> enough
>> -- maybe in the cargo holds of big airplanes?
>>
>
> Weight is one consideration.  A cubic metre of water weighs a ton. A
> Boeing 747 freighter would not run out of room but would hit its carrying
> capacity at 95 tons.  That means you would need over 1,000 to clear Chad's
> accumulation.
>
> Roger
>