There are 53 gallons in a barrel of whiskey.

That's a total of 128 oz per gallon or 64 drinks if you take doubles.

64 X 53 X 45,000 = 1.5 billion drinks. Someone better check my math
with a calculator that has more than eight digits.

See link for distressing images.

I live just a few miles from where that happened and it's said that several thousand gallons made it to the nearby Kentucky river. After effects...Baptisms are way up, and the singing of " We'll all be meeting down at the river" can be heard all night long.

it is indeed a sad event...however I have found that the fort Leonard wood in my home state has Jim Beam on sale....I guess they saved the southern states...