If my information and calculations are modestly close to being correct, then the 174 snowflakes per square inch (which seems low, but I’ll go with it), calculated with the approximate 50 inches of snow that have fallen on the District of Columbia (a land area of 2000 sq. miles), lead to a grand snowflake total of 69,852,119,040,000,000. Translation: 69 quadrillion, 852 trillion, 119 billion, 40 million snowflakes.
And I suspect each and every one of them was laughing as they fell.
(I know, I know, I didn’t show my work, but it was checked by the teacher before I turned it in.)
You know – next to that number, the national debt seems a bit tiny. But I’d rather not think positively about that number.
