Big snow

Previous posts showed the F-35 is 30 years obsolete and electric  highways can be cheaper than petroleum.

Now I will give further illustration that reporters are idiots who do not know how to do their jobs or build or write stories.
   Christmas, 2010, saw 23 inches of snowfall, measured in Central Park, New York City.  How much snow is that?  Snow weight is typically taken as 10 pounds per cubic foot.  That snow was light and fluffy, so, say 15 pounds for 23 inches deep (almost 2 feet) per square foot of ground.  1 square mile equals 27 878 400 square feet, at 15 pounds per square foot the snow weighed at least 400 000 000 pounds per square mile, that is
 200 000 tons per square mile.  New York City covers over 300 square miles for a total of 60 000 000 tons.
  60 000 000 (60 million) tons of snow fell on NYC.
  Streets and sidewalks are at least 20% of the surface area, or 12 000 000 tons of snow had to be plowed and shifted.  The other question is the amount of airflow required to move that amount of water vapor before it fell as snow.
   One inch of rain on NYC would be over 20 000 000 tons.
   NYC uses under 5 000 000 tons of water per day.
   The US uses about 1 000  million tons of petroleum per year.