Thursday, May 31, 2007

Flash Flooding Kills One

A KC-MO Northland boy has died after being swept into a storm drain yesterday.

Damn! If only the boy's family had been reading this blog (scroll down for my pre-storm warning).

One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds. Multiply that times the actual number of gallons a flood produces plus gravitational effects and that is why rushing water is SO powerful.

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