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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