Shawn Ryan Show has donated to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. Donate & Get Involved - https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201 Augustus Doricko is the founder and CEO of Rainmaker Technology Corp., a company focused on cloud seeding and weather modification. A Thiel Fellow and rising figure in climate tech, Doricko has recently faced public scrutiny following the major floods in Texas. His team conducted a brief cloud seeding operation on July 2 in a limited area of the state, then suspended operations out of caution. While some have raised questions about a possible connection between his work and the recent flooding, Doricko joins us to explain what cloud seeding actually involves—and to weigh in on the growing speculation surrounding it. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://USCCA.com/srs https://masachips.com/srs https://ROKA.com https://tryarmra.com/srs Augustus Doricko Links: Rainmaker - https://www.rainmaker.com X - https://x.com/ADoricko LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustus-doricko-660b20145 Substack - https://substack.com/@doricko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Augustus Dorico, welcome back. Thanks for having me back, Sean. Didn't expect to see you again so soon. It was quite the timing, yeah. Yeah, man. So, massive flood tragedy in Texas. You were there cloud seeding before, and so I know you're getting blasted on the internet. People are fucking irate, you know, what's going on, and, you know, but
I pride myself on giving everybody a voice, and so I wanted to offer you the opportunity to come back and talk about what's going down on there. So, quick introduction and some stats on what's happened last week. Augustus Dorico, founder and CEO of BrainMaker, a next-generation cloud seeding company.
Your name popped up in the news last week, obviously, because of the Texas floods and the cloud seeding stuff. And so, like I said, I just want to bring you on, give you the opportunity to speak to the public, my audience, about what was going on on there. But let's take a moment here to recognize the scale of the tragedy.
killed at least 120 people, and left at least 176 missing, notably 27 girls and one counselor from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp, were killed. And I just want to say that, you know, every time something like this happens, me and my organization, we like to donate, and so we're making a sizable donation. We did some research and found a... Found a nonprofit to donate to.
So we're donating to the relief efforts through the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill County country in the show. And we'll link that link in the show notes for anybody else that wants to donate, including you, if you want to donate to it.
Rainmaker will do the same.
Perfect. And some facts about the flooding. Texas Hill Country, along the Guadalupe River, heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Barry, unprecedented flooding. Between July 4th through 7th, 5 to 11 inches of rain fell in a few hours. leading to the Guadalupe River rising 26 to 29 feet in some areas within 45 minutes. Among the deadliest in the U.S.
in a century, it's destroyed homes, camps, infrastructure, killed a lot of people, a lot of people still missing that they're looking for. The tragedy centered in Flash Flood Alley, underscored the region's vulnerability to such events with historic floods that also happened in 1987, 1998, and 2015 as presidents. And I also want to take a moment and just
recognized a lot of the heroic actions that were going on there. Extensive rescue operations involving over 850 rescues. One Coast Guard crew made 165 rescues. And first responders and everyday Americans stepped up to save their neighbors. So, you know, I don't know how to say this, but, you know, when it's, When things like this happen, it's just, it's good to see how many Americans step up.
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