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Augustus Doricko

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

So the winds, when we were seeding, were blowing to the northwest, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

In the ensuing days, right, you had the storm just plop down and pound this one particular area.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

Correct.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

However, one, it was 70 grams of silver iodide.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

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?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

It could not have any impact because of those concentrations.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

And the notion that like by seeding, could we have worsened the storm somehow because we created the low pressure system?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

Like I think a lot of people

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

And I'm not one to always defer to experts, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

Like I think that people should trust but verify.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

And you can defer to other atmospheric scientists that have brought this up and corroborated it, not from Rainmaker.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

You can defer to other meteorologists.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

You can even defer to the Texas Department of Agriculture commissioner that dispelled any rumors about cloud seeding having to do with this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

Why did they, who hired you to go down there?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

The South Texas Weather Modification Association.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

So that's a bunch of counties and farms that need more water.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#217 Augustus Doricko - Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods?

Okay.