A Water Note

The month of May has been a rainy one here in Michigan.  Especially West Michigan.  My only complaint, regarding the rain, is that river levels in Michigan have been so high, I haven’t been able to get in a trout stream for over three weeks.  Dang it! 

Here’s a note about all that rain, and all that water, that was posted at one of our local teevee stations today.

"The rise in the water level of Lake Michigan has been amazing. The level is up 3” in the last WEEK! It’s up 8” in the last month, and it’s 11” above the level of one year ago. Every inch of water added to the Lake Michigan represents 390 Billion Gallons of water. If you assume that it takes the average person 8 gallons of water to take a shower, and that there are 6.3 billion people in the world....then for the 3” rise...that amount of water would be enough to give every person on earth 23 showers!"

That’s a bunch of frickin’ water.

Posted by on 05/29 at 03:15 AM

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