Blame it on the rainmaker


People looking on as law enforcement and volunteers continue to search for missing people near Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash floods in Hunt, Texas, as a search. — AFP

TWO days before the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, Texas, engineers with a California-based company called Rain­maker took off in a small aircraft about 160km away and dispersed 70g of silver iodide into a cloud.

Their goal? To make it rain – part of a weather modification practice known as cloud seeding, which uses chemical compounds to encourage water droplets in clouds to coalesce and fall as rain.

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