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In this episode, Mason tells the fascinating story of Charles Hatfield, a man who claimed to have the ability to make it rain. Known as the “moisture accelerator,” Hatfield’s alleged rain-making abilities had been sought after by a western communities desperate for water in the early 1900s.  According to him, his  secret chemical compounds and techniques could bring rain to drought-stricken areas. One of his contracts may have resulted in a disastrous flood in Southern California.

Resources 

When San Diego Hired a Rainmaker a Century Ago, It Poured

Christopher Klein

https://daily.jstor.org/charles-hatfield-rainmaker/

A Brief History of Pluviculture

Clark C. Spence

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40487683?mag=charles-hatfield-rainmaker&seq=1

Hatfield the Rainmaker

Barbara Tuthill

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1520588?mag=charles-hatfield-rainmaker&seq=1

The Great Flood of 1916

by Steve Schoenherr

http://sunnycv.com/history/exhibits/flood.html#05

Melbourne, the Rainmaker 

By Nebraska State Historical Society

https://history.nebraska.gov/publications_section/melbourne-the-rainmaker/

 

When the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky

By, Katie Nodjimbadem

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