Augustus Doricko
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the winds, when we were seeding, were blowing to the northwest, right?
In the ensuing days, right, you had the storm just plop down and pound this one particular area.
But when we were seeding, the winds were going northwest such that any of the aerosols that could have possibly remained in the atmosphere, and I don't think that any consequential amount did, they would have blown out of the direction of the storm as well.
Correct.
However, one, it was 70 grams of silver iodide.
That amount of particulate dispersed over hours would have been lower in concentration than just the natural amount of dust that gets kicked up from the soil, right?
It could not have any impact because of those concentrations.
And the notion that like by seeding, could we have worsened the storm somehow because we created the low pressure system?
Like I think a lot of people
And I'm not one to always defer to experts, right?
Like I think that people should trust but verify.
The notion that any sort of seeding operation then could have worsened the remnants of the tropical storm and then the convergence of a system from the Pacific is like totally impossible.
And you can defer to other atmospheric scientists that have brought this up and corroborated it, not from Rainmaker.
You can defer to other meteorologists.
You can even defer to the Texas Department of Agriculture commissioner that dispelled any rumors about cloud seeding having to do with this.
Why did they, who hired you to go down there?
The South Texas Weather Modification Association.
So that's a bunch of counties and farms that need more water.
Okay.