Samuel The Rainmaker Made Rain

Charles Hatfield (on the ladder) and his younger brother with one of their rain towers, in Coalinga, Calif. The pair built a similar 20-foot tower in the woods east of San Diego and began what one city official would later call “an incantation aimed at wringing moisture from the air.” What followed was a destructive downpour.

 

 

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-rainmaker-20150526-story.html