
Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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A Book Review of Claudius the God
Bob Greene: Numerous cultures have specific rituals for making rain. He shares a passage from Robert Graves' book Claudius the God and his wife Messalina that describes such rituals. "I do need to warn super sensitive people that the passage is just ever so slightly off-color, but it's not bad," he says.
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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.
