Posted on 07/11/2025 6:26:11 AM PDT by bitt
The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed that cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred.
NBC News reported that Augustus Doricko, the CEO of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said that planes had released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over 100 lives.
Doricko claims the cloud seeding operations did not cause the flooding in Texas.
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NBC News Confirms Cloud Seeding Operations Were Conducted Just Two Days Before Texas Flood.
CEO of Rainmaking Technology Company Claims The Flood In Texas Is Not Due To Cloud Seeding pic.twitter.com/DG2vOgUro0
— Anthony Scott (@AnthonysTown) July 8, 2025
Per Bloomberg:
According to Doricko, Rainmaker flew a brief 20-minute cloud seeding mission in south-central Texas last Tuesday, but suspended all operations that same day due to abnormally high moisture content in the air. The two clouds seeded during the Tuesday flight would have dissipated after a few hours and would have had no effect on the floods several days later, he added.
Cloud seeding involves using chemicals, often particles of silver iodide, to trigger the formation of ice crystals or droplets from water that’s already present in a cloud but not being efficiently turned into rain. Though the technique has been studied for decades, it remains difficult to predict the additional rainfall that cloud seeding operations can generate, with estimates ranging widely from 0% to 20%.
What’s clear is that the technique would not have been able to generate the record-breaking rainfall seen in Texas. So much rain fell that the Guadalupe River at Kerrville, one of the epicenters of the floods, rose some 26 feet (8 meters) in less than an hour overnight on Friday.
“Based on the meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by a powerful natural weather system, with thunderstorms fed by very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico,” said Andrew Charlton-Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading in the UK.
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The little girls washed away to their death wanted to eat too
That really doesn’t deserve a response.
WEATHER
amount or type of precipitation
WEATHER
mitigate hail, or disperse fog.
WEATHER
The usual objective is to increase rain or snow,
WEATHER
either for its own sake ....
or to prevent precipitation from occurring in days afterward.
Didn't prevent the Kerrville flood .
So , we learn changing the climate to fight climate
is
changing the climate to fight climate change
and fails in its aims.
It steals moisture from one farm to give another farm
It is a form of water wealth redistribution.
Sound like communism ?
Cloward-democommie-Priven cloud seeding imho.
“Based on the meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by a powerful natural weather system, with thunderstorms fed by very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico ...”
Most of the bomb-throwers either do not know or do not consider that upper Mexico had a big tropical storm move in from the Gulf of America a few days before. Much of the rainy conditions in Texas were influenced by that TS.
Some in this thread are promoting them.
It’s been called seeding since the 1950s. I don’t think that’s gonna change.
Great satire!!
And two days later they were nowhere near where they were released. Unless the wind doesn’t blow there.
It already rains on agriculture .
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Do you want to eat?
Brother please, america ate before they were ever changing the climate to fight climate change.
No one in America is starving, or even not eating, cuz of drought.
We don't need it .
You rob one farmers potential rain to give to another farmer.
It's water ( wealth) redistribution
It creates no more water, water is finite ,neither created or destroyed , so the whole effort is a wash . Pointless. So why do it ? Who is bankrolling these operations ? How do these little climate warriors financially sustain them selves ? Can they prove they have benefitted any farmer enough for those farmers to hire them ?
exact same thing happened with the Big Thompson flash flood that killed 144 people in Colorado:
Colorado’s Big Thompson flash flood occurred as airplanes were buzzing around for weeks “cloud seeding” with tons of microscopic iodine crystals ... the local newspapers were full of news about how wonderful “cloud seeding” was and all the rain it was going to make UNTIL a deluge of rain produced the killer flash flood, at which point not another word was ever published in Colorado about “cloud seeding”, and said “could seeding” immediately ceased with nary a word as to why ... there was no Internet then as an information alternative, so the “cloud seeding” that preceded the killer flood disappeared into the memory hole ... i remember because i had just moved to Colorado in 1975 ...
The weather modification was not the cause of their loss. That is entirely 100% on the people who ran the camp.
with thunderstorms fed by very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico .
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Was that Gulf weather modified ?
The seeding is not coupled with the incompetence of those who ran the camp. Agriculture out in those parts of the country are always short of water. I think you deserve an education and a switch to rational thinking.
Ha! What govt program ever ends?
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Well then, THATS NOT FAIR !!, we should redistribute that water ?
Take it from one ag area and give it to another ?
How commie of you.
or what passes as rational communism. .
.I also heard this CEO say that the cloud seeding had nothing to do with the flood.
He gave some small figure for how much moisture the cloud seeding produced vs. the trillions of gallons of rain that fell in the area.
How about trying to make it rain so that everyone can have more water?
You don't think clearly.
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So if it produces so little, why are they doing it ?
If so little, then it's not financially benefiting any farmer, and if so why would a farmer hire these climate warriors if they produce negligible water and financial benefit to the farmer to be able to afford to hire them.
Who's financially keeping these climate warriors out fits afloat ?
A money trail that needs to be looked into, maybe via sn audit.
No. They are interested in the water that COMES IN from the gulf. The objective is to make the air deposit the water where it is needed.
Breaking news, I ate Popeye’s chicken for the first time ever just one day before the flooding, therefore I caused all of that rain to fall.
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