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‘Cloud Seeding’ Is Being Blamed for Deadly Texas Flash Flooding, but Is that Really True?

TEXAS HILL COUNTRY, TEXAS, JUL 9 – Officials and experts say cloud seeding cannot produce extreme rainfall and did not cause the deadly floods that killed over 100 people, with 30,000 warned during the event.

  • Flash floods hit the Texas region during the July 4 holiday weekend, resulting in at least 118 fatalities and leaving more than 160 individuals unaccounted for.
  • The flooding occurred after Rainmaker Technology Corp. conducted a weather modification activity on July 2, but officials and experts found no connection between this and the subsequent floods.
  • Meteorologists attributed the disaster to remnants of Tropical Storm Barry mixing with Gulf moisture and terrain, producing rainfall rates up to 4 to 6 inches per hour.
  • Rainmaker’s CEO Augustus Doricko clarified that the firm had no cloud seeding activity in the impacted region on July 3 or 4, and that the clouds seeded on July 2 had dissipated more than a day before the flooding occurred.
  • The event is among the deadliest inland flooding disasters in U.S. history and prompted political responses and widespread rejection of weather modification conspiracy theories.
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