I was in Barbados when Beryl moved through. We were going to get 8+ inches of rain. I don’t know how much we eventually got but I’d say it was 1 or 2 inches. The whole storm was a minor inconvenience.
Some storms are bad. Some storms are not so bad. But the experts mostly don’t know what they’re talking about and their job seems to be primarily focused on scaring people over whatever it is that seems on deck for the near future.
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Somebody in the government could mention weather modification, they've been aware of it since at least the Seventies.