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        <p>Syracuse, N.Y. -- The amount of rain from <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2017/08/hurricane_harvey_help_victims_donations_aid.html#incart_std" target="_blank">Hurricane Harvey,</a> which is causing catastrophic flooding in Texas and Louisiana, is almost beyond imaging.</p>
<p>Some areas of Texas could get 50 inches of rain by the time Harvey winds down later this week. That's more precipitation than Upstate New York cities get in an entire year. Syracuse's annual average, for example, is 38 inches.</p>
<p>Estimates are that Harvey <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/28/harveys-unprecedented-flooding-could-unload-25-trillion-gallons-water/#7e0d8c6972b8" target="_blank">could dump </a>25 trillion gallons of water on Texas.</p>
<p>Here's how staggering that number is: It's approximately the volume of water <a href="https://www.niagarafallslive.com/facts_about_niagara_falls.htm" target="_blank">that flows over</a> Niagara Falls <em>in an entire year</em>.</p>
<p>We came up with some Upstate comparisons to help you get your head around that much water. Harvey's rainfall is:</p>
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<li>Six times&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ifingerlakes.com/finger_lakes.html" target="_blank">the volume </a> of Seneca Lake, the largest and deepest of the Finger Lakes. Keep in mind that Seneca Lake is 35 miles long, 3.5 miles wide, and 630 feet deep.</li>
<li>Nearly 70 times&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nywea.org/clearwaters/pre02fall/314080.html" target="_blank">the volume</a> of Oneida Lake.</li>
<li>More than 700 times&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8668.html" target="_blank">the volume</a> of Onondaga Lake</li>
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<p>Here are a few other perspectives. The rain from Harvey:</p>
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<li>Would cover the entire city of Syracuse to a depth of about one mile.</li>
<li>Would take more than seven years to flow through the Hudson River at Troy at the river's&nbsp;<a href="https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?site_no=01315500" target="_blank">normal rate</a> of flow.</li>
<li>Is six times the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/05/lake_ontario_deluge_4_trillion_gallons_of_water_poured_into_lake_since_april_1.html" target="_blank">"unbelievable amounts of rain"</a> in April and May that caused widespread flooding along Lake Ontario.</li>
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<p>Is 10 times as much as the rain&nbsp;<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/07/cars_submerged_in_flash_floods_in_utica.html" target="_blank">that caused widespread flooding</a> in Central New York on July 1.</p>
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