Harvey rain reports would be enough to fill Notre Dame stadium over 1000 times
HOUSTON, Tex - Cedar Bayou near Houston set a new a tropical rainfall record of 51.88"
The Houston area alone has seen between 30 and 50 inches of rain
Update to the rainfall record: 51.88" has been reported at Cedar Bayou and FM-1942 as of 3:40 PM CDT today #houwx#glswx#bcswx#txwxpic.twitter.com/LJZsLJSqVm
— NWS Houston (@NWSHouston) August 29, 2017
Fifty inches of rain is a lot of water, it's so much it's hard to even visualize. Fifty inches of rain on an acre of land is over one-million gallons of water. Multiply that by over one-million acres that make up Houston's Harris county, that's 1.54 trillion with a 't' gallons of water
That much water could fill Notre Dame stadium roughly 1300 times.
Notes
We calculated for both 30 and 50 inches of rainfall.
1 inch rain x 1 acre = 27,154 gallons
Volume of Notre Dame Stadium is roughly 1.17 billion gallons.