The big rain storm that slammed California on October 13th was the largest and most powerful October storm since 1962. NPR estimated that it dumped more than 8 billion gallons of water onto Lake Tahoe. If each gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs that means the combined weight of all that water was an astounding 66,720,000,000 lbs. Yes, you read that right…that’s billion with a B, folks. That’s just an incredible amount of water! The level of the lake actually rose over a foot in just one 24 hour period.
