
Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Water Is a Controversial Issue in California
In Boston, you get an average of more than three inches of rain every single month. In San Diego, we get less than an inch or seven months of the year. And yet, California is one of the major food producers producing sections of the United States. So how do they do that? What's a little rainfall? It isn't easy and we do grow tons of the nation's food here.
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In 1915, during a particularly bad drought, San Diego hired rainmaker Charles Hatfield, who gave them more than they bargained for. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli get to know Hatfield, how he tried to make it rain, and what happened in San Diego.
