Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Well, well, well. So this is what a hundred-year storm looks like...

I don't think we're going to lose the road--although the three-foot culvert underneath it is full right now, the water has backed up and is lapping at its edges, and each molecule of that water does lose 200 vertical feet x 32 feet/second/second of gravitational potential energy in the quarter mile approaching the culvert...

And we only have fifty cubic feet of mud in back of the garage, and another fifty cubic feet on the backside of the house--everything else has been swept past the house into the... culvert...

UPDATE: The culvert was full because it was blocked with boards--so not a hundred year storm after all.

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