Quit Blaming Cloud Seeding

Texas floods are freaks of nature, not some government weather trick

Have you been seeing all these reports about cloud seeding? My God! The conspiracy fools have latched onto it like a baby calf sucking a fresh tit. I’ll admit the story sounds good, and I’d love nothing more than to pin this one on the government, but we need to get a life.

Cloud seeding—spraying tiny particles like silver iodide into clouds to coax out rain—is real, and we absolutely should take full advantage of it. If you’ve ever lived through a Texas drought and depended on water to survive, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You can’t just sit around and hope for rain. Hell no! If you have the science to make it rain, then do it. But I want to be clear: I don’t think that’s what happened here in Texas.

First off, this kind of thing happens all the time. It’s not the first flood we’ve seen, and it won’t be the last. These events are freaks of nature that roll in every so often. Nothing you do is going to stop them—or stir them up. Get a life.

Now, I do believe in the weird stuff in this world. I’ve seen it firsthand. One time in the 1980s my family camped on the Frio River near Garner. The state park was packed, so we stayed at a private campground. It was July—hotter than hell—and any rain at all would’ve been a blessing. Well, rain is what we got.