it occurs to me i didn't account for nuclear power, which can roughly 10x the giant ic engines i was looking at.  so theoretically you could have 180 million gallons an hour if you sent an aircraft carrier to run your uw microwave.  so i'm getting 1 inch of rain on one acre is 3630 cubic feet of water.  which is 27,154 gallons of water per inch, per acre so if tampa is 114 sq miles or 72,960 acres. how many inches of rain could 800 megawatt hours of microwaved water (assuming it only needed to be heated one degree celsius) could feds dump on it?  if it's 180 million gallons, dividing by 27,154 you can hit 6,629 acres of land with one inch.  but we have 72960 acres of tampa to hit. so really 1/11th of an inch was added.  sure if you spent all 24 hours you could get over a billion gallons, and maybe get two inches if you only rained on the entire tampa bay area, but the hurricane hits a lot more than that. so without some serious extra homework nobody is making hurricanes. but really this is still super impressive, some knuckle head with a windsock, free fuel, and a giant sea worthy microwave could shotgun irrigate the local coastline.
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