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Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Hatfield's Most Famous Experience

Charles Mallory Hatfield was known as a rainmaker. He claimed to be able to produce four inches of rainfall in one year. San Diego's city council hired him for $10,000 if he could fill the Marina Reservoir within a year. The water levels were dangerously low at the time and threatened economic growth.

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