Augustus Doricko

We're looking at, well, for forecasting, you know, this is an important point, right?

We're looking at the entire region just so that we understand the situation.

Even if we're only seeding over a handful of counties, we want to understand the context.

And it's important to do that because on the 2nd, our meteorologists identified that there was this inflow of moisture from the Gulf, and that's why we suspended operations the afternoon of the 2nd.

Now, that's important because, one, that's, like,

Rainmaker wants to do no harm and did no harm, and by proactively forecasting so that we know we're not seeding during storms or during flash floods, we can prevent ourselves from doing any damage.

But it's also important because a lot of people have said, well, who even is regulating you guys?

Who even is giving you permission to do this?

And it's worth saying the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has permits for weather modification and cloud seeding operations.

They have for decades.

Cloud seeding isn't a new technology, right?

Only recently have people been able to measure what the effects of it are with new radar tech, but it's not new.

The states have regulations.

The states have to grant you permits if they approve your concept of operations and also if they approve your suspension criteria.

And so that is maybe one of the most important parts here.

Suspension criteria are basically the weather conditions or conditions on the ground that would result in us being required to stop operating.

And so one of the suspension criteria is if the National Weather Service issues a flash flood warning.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning at about 1 a.m.

on the 3rd.

We suspended operations on the 2nd.