What 3.5 trillion looks like

This morning as I was reading a book titled “Prairie Fires”, a book about Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser, I came upon an interesting “visual” showing how much three and a half trillion would look like.

In June of 1875, a swarm of locusts came into the Midwest. Having telegraph, it was determined that this swarm was 110 miles wide, 1,800 miles long and between a quarter to a half mile thic...