
Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Hatfield's Secret Method of Making Rain
Hatfield first tried his method from an old windmill tower on his father's ranch on Bonsell, near San Diego. He never patented it for fear that rain producers would spring up like mushrooms all over the country. Hatfield used chemical combinations working in harmony with the very law that makes rain and a natural sense. In the daytime, solar heat speeded vaporization, and at night, combustion was added.
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Transcript

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.
