Approximate weight of snow???

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Perhaps it was lead paint. :-)

[Mike Lassiter]

Perhaps it was lead paint. :-)

AND a LONG time ago - since lead has been banned from paint for decades now.

[Rich Engelhardt]

I think the error here is a 54 pound gallon can of paint.

Correct - my bad...54 pounds is the case weight.

Ill give you 54 lbs. for a box (4 gal.) but even that is a stretch

Weights were always printed on the outsides of the cases.
After seeing 54 pounds printed on God only knows how many cases of paint over a 20 plus year span of looking at them, I remember that pretty clear.
Aluminum paint (not roof coating) was the lightest at about 39 pounds a case.
Latex paints ran between 50 and 56 pounds per case

My bad on the math - 2400 gallons @ roughly 13 pounds per gallon comes out to 31,200 pounds.

Emulsion block filler was the worst. That stuff ran 75 pounds per 5 gal pail. What made that stuff the worst though was were it had to be delivered. It always went to a muddy construction site where you had a 2x10 plank across the mud or to a high rise were the buckets had to be humped up stairs.

AND a LONG time ago - since lead has been banned from paint for decades now

I'd say it was a while ago...
I started working there part time in the Summer of 1968..

Not questioning your estimated weight, but that would be about a 160,000 tractor trailer. Is that legal in Ohio?

I'm not 100% sure of the number of 50# bags were on each skid. I recall they were stacked 5 per layer and packed in the truck two skids high. I also recall the trucks being packed solid all the way from the back to the nose.
Our store was the distribution point for the metro Cleveland area - which totaled about 8 stores with Akron's two stores and the Lorain store figured in.
If 80,000 is the max, then my figure would have to be off by two. I probably made a mistake in the number per pallet. (obviously)