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Nah, the redneck joke is BillyBob doesn't know the difference. And he doesn't know BillyBob should have a hyphen either.
Weather peoples talk in tenths of an inch for rain and often use fractions of an inch for snow fall around here. Go figure. Conversationally, people will turn .2" of an inch of rain into 1/4" inch of rain. I know I'm guilty of doing it. Instead of saying I had an 1.7" of rain in the rain gauge, I will tell my neighbor we had an 1 3/4" of rain. Does it make sense? No, it doesn't. And no one cares either.
I admit I turn the tenths into quarters in my head as well.
But with snow (our mountains get it) I've mostly heard the meteorologist talk about it in feet, or fractions of feet. I have a notion that a foot of snow and an inch of water are about the same amount of water, but no idea if that's correct.
How much water there is in an inch of snow varies, and often by a noticeable amount. A foot of snow that falls when it's say 20F/-6C has less water in it than a wet, heavy snow fall at 36F/2C. And the snow that falls at -30F/-34C has a whole lot less than either.
But 1 cubic foot of "average snow", for those in the general US area, is roughly 1" of water. Close enough for us Cletus'.