Texas floods

CEO under threat – wrongly blamed for flooding

Augustus Doricko and his company Rainmaker Technologies have been wrongly blamed for the Texas floods in posts with millions of views, writes the Washington Post.

“I always expected something like this to happen. Every time there is an extreme weather event somewhere in the world, people blame it on weather modification,” Doricko told the newspaper.

He says his inbox has been flooded with both hate and outright threats after online conspiracy theorists discovered that the company was conducting a so-called cloud seeding operation in Texas the day before the severe storm hit.

Experts say there is no evidence whatsoever that the technology the company uses to create rain could be linked to the flooding.

Zero evidence for cloud seeding theory after flooding

The Texas company Rainmaker Technology has been singled out as responsible for the severe flooding that is believed to have claimed at least a hundred lives in the state in recent weeks, several media outlets report.

There is no evidence whatsoever for these accusations.

In the days before the floods, Rainmaker Technology carried out so-called cloud seeding in the area. It is a procedure that causes clouds to release stored liquid, but cannot create rain in the quantities that would be required to cause the severe flooding.

Despite this, posts linking the company to the floods have received millions of views, according to CBS News. House of Representatives member Marjorie Taylor Greene is among those who have circulated a picture of the company's CEO and advocated a ban on cloud seeding.

“Cloud seeding played zero role in deadly Texas floods. Rudimentary, basic physics shows it,” meteorologist Matthew Cappucci writes on X.

The Texas Flood — It’s About Time

At least 111 people, including 30 children, have been confirmed dead in the Texas floods, and 173 people were still missing as of Thursday.

Heavy rains caused the Guadalupe River to overflow overnight Friday, causing widespread devastation. Camp Mystic in Kerr County was particularly hard hit.

A 24-hour search and rescue effort involving more than 500 people, including the National Guard and military drones, has been underway to find the missing, but no one has been rescued since Friday.

Delayed and inadequate weather warnings have drawn criticism, and staffing shortages at the National Weather Service (NWS) have been cited as a contributing factor.

President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency and promised federal support, while the death toll makes the disaster one of the deadliest for children in the United States in decades.