Given the size of the average home I’d say that’s a pretty small unit.
Hey, it’s not about the size of the unit, it’s about load-bearing capacity, cost, and availability due to supply chain constraints.
One gigaton of snow roughly equates to one cubic kilometer of fresh water, which could completely fill the U.S. capitol building more than 2,200 times.
(source: AGU [American Geophysical Union] Newsroom, which was linked to by Gizmodo, which was linked to by @FGD135 )
Milo also mentioned that the archeological compound was about “four football fields” 
Boo-shul? Who TF says boo-shul? Yorkshire farmers, maybe?
Is there a Yorkshire in the US?
(for context, he was quoting an archeological journal from the beginning of 20th century)
why is Milo dressed like Jason Mewes from Jay and Silent Bob?
Milo’s fkin’ weird, man…
Would that be official city limits, or the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area, which stretches from SE Wisconsin to NW Indiana?
Never have I been more convinced that actual metric measurements would help!
I was wondering the same myself.
Also wondering whether a Chicago-shaped iceberg would float
https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
Kinda hard to draw with my finger on my phone.
Good question!
Maybe?
Still a pretty good attempt. I give it four stars.
Wouldn’t all icebergs float? I can’t imagine a shape that wouldn’t, since ice is lighter than water.
(Maybe one made from heavy water…?)