{"id":4836,"date":"2010-02-13T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2010-02-13T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:56:15","slug":"lots-and-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4836","title":{"rendered":"Lots and Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2010\/02\/how-much-snow-did-washington-dc-really.html\">Physics Buzz:  How Much Snow did Washington DC REALLY Get?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington DC looks like a 10 x 10 mile square with a bite taken out of it. All together the city is 68.3 square miles. It&#8217;s not too hard to figure out the total volume of snow dumped on the city so far.<\/p>\n<p>55.6&#8243; depth of snow x 68.3 square miles roughly equals 8,820,000,000 cubic feet of snow, or 249,000,000 cubic meters. If you were to build a giant cube of snow that big it would be 2,066 feet, or 629 meters on each side. That&#8217;s almost two fifths of a mile or two thirds of a kilometer per side. That&#8217;s the volume of about 238 Empire State Buildings. That&#8217;s a lot of snow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Buzz: How Much Snow did Washington DC REALLY Get? Washington DC looks like a 10 x 10 mile square with a bite taken out of it. All together the city is 68.3 square miles. It&#8217;s not too hard to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4836\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-other-science","category-world-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}