That portion of Texas has a long history of major flooding events. It's been called, "Flash Flood Alley", and dams were built on the Guadalupe and Colorado Rivers for flood control purposes.
That's not to dispute that any weather modification may or may not have occurred. I'm just saying these types of events have a long history of happening in the Texas Hill Country.
That’s true, the region is known to flood. I thought carefully before posting, but in the end:
•the waters rose 26 feet in 45 minutes according to multiple reports
•Rainmaker reported seeding in this area on July 2nd
The common consensus is “oh cloud seeding is a micro-scale tool, there’s no technology that exists to intensify storms or redirect them”, but Augustus Doricko the founder of Rainmaker is a Thiel Fellow:
“The Thiel Fellowship, created by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, is a prestigious program that pays brilliant young minds $100,000 to leave college and pursue radical, world-changing ideas.”
LINK (this article is skeptical of their involvement; I find their argument weak)
And somehow I doubt that they founded this company to merely drop 500 gallons of water in small scale operations (the current accepted role of seeding), using technology that has been around since the 1970s, with no major improvements.
Freshwater rights and water scarcity are major topics at the World Economic Forum. With the rise of AI mega centers:
“…training the GPT-3 language model in Microsoft’s state-of-the-art U.S. data centers
can directly evaporate 700,000 liters (184,920 gal) of clean freshwater, but such information has been kept a secret. More critically, the global AI demand is projected to account for 4.2 – 6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal in 2027, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of 4 – 6x Denmark [‘s annual consumption rate]. “
LINK — this is an interested paper that could be expanded on in the AI thread
San Antonio and Austin (within 2-3 hours of the Camp Mystic area) are developing many AI data centers that will require a lot of water to cool. My guess is some of these cloud seeding companies are exploring ways to recharge groundwater near these data centers and potentially secure government and/or private contracts for doing so. Rainmaker is already known to have operated in this area, perhaps because it is remote but reasonably accessible to these metro areas. Perhaps they were experimenting in some capacity (intensifying existing storms for example) and caused more rainfall than anticipated.
I think that’s just the tip of the iceberg for their motivations for messing with things. The government and private companies have been caught conducting questionable experiments/practices how many times now? Sure, it could be just a coincidence, but we don’t know the half of what goes on behind closed doors.
Oh, and the area they’re building these thirsty data centers in has been in chronic drought:
LINK
This reminds me of Catherine Austin Fitt’s interview during COVID, how different areas (healthcare, AI, crypt/CBDC, media, electric grid/5G, etc) are intertwined and holistically work towards the same goals while appearing to be unrelated. Worth a deeper dive for sure.
