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Vladimir Putin · TexasTwo days before the waters of the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly and devastating Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, Texas, engineers with a California-based company called Rainmaker took off in an airplane about 100 miles away and…See the Story
How a California Cloud-Seeding Company Became the Center of a Texas Flood Conspiracy
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Computers · AustinM ichael Van Deelen’s home office, on the second floor of his neat two-story house in a north Harris County suburb, sprawls across two studies, each equipped with desks and computers. One contains a library chock full of books, including Black’s Law Dictionary and hefty volumes of state and federal statutes. A sunken room, a few steps down, includes an extra window unit air conditioner and a queen-sized bed, in case Van Deelen gets too hot or to…Read Article
Rules of the Robe
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Climate Change · AustinI’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss. The bottom line is—we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We are not going to change this narrative until we change our view of climate change and of living and developing in the floodplain…Read Article
Floodplains Belong to the Rivers
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