July 22, 2024
Hacedores de lluvia || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

Realmente podemos hacer que llueva o es un mito, los meteorólogos han luchado durante años para lograrlo, pero acaso un brujo, un medium un shaman podrían haberlo logrado.
Realmente podemos hacer que llueva o es un mito, los meteorólogos han luchado durante años para lograrlo, pero acaso un brujo, un medium un shaman podrían haberlo logrado.
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Most people in big cities do not
care much if the rain is lacking.
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I mean, unless you have a
huge garden and depend on the rain so
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that your garden is beautiful, I
don' t think you' re very
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interested in the subject of rain.
Of course it' s excessive and it
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starts to refuse around here They cover
the sewers and start flooding into the city.
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We' re all worried. However, the situation in the countryside is
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different. In the field, crops
depend on rain. The life of animals,
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livestock, prayers, as I call
you, also depends on rain.
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If there is no water, everything
dies and at the end of the day
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you should also be concerned because in
large cities often water comes not only from
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deep wells, but from surface reservoirs
where large amounts of water are stored,
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millions of cubic meters that are then
filtered and used for roughness. So it
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' s a very important issue.
When there is a long drought, things
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can get very tense. Now imagine
yourself in an ancient age. Obviously,
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ancient Americans and people from all over
the world invented rituals whose function was to
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attract rain, the dance of rain, the dance of rain. Of course,
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the Atlaloc cult not only to ask
for rain, but also to stop
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the rain. Either of the two
things had interesting cults over time, with
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the variation of beliefs and the concept
of reality. It was no longer necessary
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to have a shaman dancing, an
ancient priest dancing and singing songs to invoke
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the rain. Now there were the
rainmakers. Yes, rainmakers. Those who
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make it rain. And this is
a very interesting story that has been suggested
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to us by the audience. And
so, tonight we will be talking about
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the rain stories from the dark side, strange beings, unexplained events, stories
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that other minds prefer to ignore.
I' m telling you a very old
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case. In a thousand seven hundred
and twenty- four, Dominican priest Jan
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Battiste Labat wrote his memoirs about what
he had lived. This man had traveled
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on half a planet and about one
thousand six hundred and ninety was in the
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Caribbean, in the region of the
coast of Venezuela towards the islands, specifically
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in Martinique. There the priest Jambattiste
Labat, who at that time was a
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Dominican prior, witnessed something that impressed
him very much by being there and talking
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with some other priests, fellow priests
and friends. One of them complained bitterly
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that there had been no rain in
some time and were losing sugar crops.
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In this area there were large sugar
plantations and slavery. So if there was
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no sugar, there was no food
to buy. There was going to be
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trouble. Let me tell you something
terrible, and it' s that,
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well, the good Jean Baptiste had
his own sugar farm. He was a
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very progressive man who brought new technology
and all that, but he also had
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many slaves. The point is that, while he' s talking to those
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people and putting out his concern,
a child who' s around for about
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nine or ten years is coming.
This child had been brought from Guinea as
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part of a lot of slaves.
He was an original African child and had
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been brought as a slave. One
of the priests who had taken charge of
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the education and care of this creature
was Father Freize Freis, who had him
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as a kind of assistant, a
young man who was already being sent.
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They' re there talking about the
concern about rain. When the little one
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asks them how much they want it
to rain and they laugh. Obviously,
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it wasn' t about whether it
was raining or not simply raining The child
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who, by the way, had
learned to speak French. Being with Father
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Fraizy tells them that he can make
it rain, but it depends on how
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much they want it to rain.
There' s a laugh there and one
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of them slaps him on the back
and laughs and the kid tells them they
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like it. Of course, this
child is learning to speak French. He
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does not interpret well what one should
be laughing at or what these friars are
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talking about. The fact is that
they keep talking and he tells them well,
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they' re going to want it
to rain or not. And one
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of them says yes, of course, we do want it to rain,
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but nothing has rained. You'
re not watching. You have a coconut
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head and the kid tells them that
I can make it rain. There is
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some doubt about it, because those
friars do not know whether to take it
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as a joke, if you are
serious. The fact is, they call
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it a witchcraft or what. The
child does not understand very well what it
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is about. I repeat, you
have learned to speak French a short time
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ago. One of the priests who' s there says good. This creature
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has not been baptized. Therefore,
he does not incur sins and does one
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of his dances. Another one of
the priests out there is also king and
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says good. It will be entertaining
to see what these people did. Jean
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Baptiste Labat, the prior was a
man who had been closely related to naturalism,
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a field researcher in botany biology.
So he was also interested in ancient
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customs in Africa. I met the
rituals over there. So forward, for
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my part, no problem. The
child is not baptized, he does not
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commit sin. They all sit down
and tell you forward. The little one
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quickly goes and gets three oranges that
were out there somewhere, in some basket
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somewhere pulls out three oranges. Then
return and place some twigs in certain positions.
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But to place twigs in certain positions, he puts a twig into a
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series of genuflections, he does a
series of rites. Then put another twig
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and do the same thing and do
it again and put an orange, put
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another one. That I take about
fifteen minutes in what places three oranges and
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three twigs. Then, when you' re done placing all this, you
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throw yourself on the floor and wait
for a moment while you sing something.
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Then he gets up very ceremonious and
takes one of the twigs that has been
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there with the oranges on the floor. That begins to move it, begins
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to turn it and then takes another
of the twigs, lifts them up and
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the sky, and begins to do
something a kind of dancing, while looking
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at the horizon fixedly and towards the
sky. Priests who have been watching him
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for a while are surprised by this
whole ritual. No one knows exactly what
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he' s saying. He'
s talking in his local dialect of Guinea,
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in Africa, and they' re
hundreds from there. The matter is
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that a few moments later and according
to the testimony of Jean Baptiste Labat,
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the Dominican prior on the island of
Martinique, in that one thousand and six
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hundred and ninety. According to his
testimony, he saw it. He saw
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as suddenly in the middle of those
dances that this child did. The sky
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began to enrapture. Suddenly. It
wasn' t something that was being little
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clouds. He didn' t suddenly
start to fall for it. It got
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orange and then it began to blacken
the sky and and or and it rained
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in pitchers for almost an hour later, the boy took his oranges, took
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his twigs, went around the back, dug a hole and placed everything and
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covered it up. Then he returned
very happy. The astonishment was enormous because
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there had fallen a flood of a
very intense hour, which had filled the
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different aljÃvers, which had watered the
sugar fields, which had done wonders but
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there was one more detail exactly where
all the friars were sitting. I don
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' t see. According to Father
Labat, what caused everyone the most astonishment
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is that everything around it rained except
where they were. In that place,
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where the friars were, they didn' t get wet. It was a
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thing that this man narrated and claimed
that he had no idea how he had
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achieved it, because they did not
understand what the hell he had said.
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Of course, the situation of all
this was very unusual. Whatever I would
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have said. Only the priests who
were there at that time, who were
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Father Temple Rossi, Bournoy and Frace, were absolutely surprised and would narrate it
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in their memories of a thousand seven
hundred and twenty- two. So this
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situation of rain creation is not something
new, but it is somewhat intriguing.
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The child did not use any kind
of chemical substance, he did not use
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anything that could be interpreted as minimally
scientific. Don' t let him out
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of your sight, because from here
we' re going to go somewhere completely
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different. Now we' re in
San Diego, in California, in this
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United States of America, in nine
hundred and fifteen, and things are really
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bad. It' s been almost
four years since a drop rained. The
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reservoirs, both those of Lake Morena
and those of swit Water or Otai,
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are the three large reservoirs, are
completely empty or, at least, have
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such a rickety endowment that it is
not enough to meet the needs of a
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modern city. By nineteen hundred and
fifteen, San Diego was a very large
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city by the standards of the time
and was also very modern. Let me
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explain this because while there was World
War I in Europe, there was an
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interesting economic boom here. America'
s industrial capacity had done impressive things.
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So San Diego has trams, has
cars, lots of cars, has bridges,
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roads, well- made bridges,
not things. There, the roads
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are very good and the quality of
life in nine hundred and fifteen in San
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Diego would like to have it in
the North States. The fact is that
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all this bonanza and all this beauty
is at risk, because this city depends
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on the water that comes from both
the reservoirs of Lake Morena, which is
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the largest, the dam of Ottai, which is a little lower, and
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of Swethwater, which is also important. All of these together are San Diego
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water storages and are practically empty.
In the face of this concern and the
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fact that there is nothing at all, it does not rain, there are
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no clouds, the atmospheric conditions are
quite precarious. The forecast of the meteorology
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specialists at the time was that it
would be several months before it rained,
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at least until the following season.
In this area of California, the rainy
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season runs from early October to late
March, more or less, with some
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rain still in April. Therefore,
when at the beginning of November that thousand
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nine hundred and fifteen has not rained. It is expected that again it will
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be a very difficult season. Perhaps
thatâ s why they were so funny
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when that young man put up came
to the desk and asked to be allowed
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to make an offer. The handsome
young man came to the city offices,
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where he proposed that, with a
modern invention of his authorship, he would
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be able to rain the name of
this boy and his brother Era Headfield.
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Both Charles and his brother Joel proposed
to the city something very simple to raise
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without n n ns counts inches the
level of Lake Morena, the main reservoir
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of water, but in a very
peculiar way. The first forty inches would
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be free courtesy of the Hatfield brothers. The next inches every inch that went
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up the level would be at a
cost of a thousand dollars from fifty inches.
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The rest that fell into the dam
was free of charge was simply at
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no cost, so if they were
successful, they would get about ten thousand
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dollars. It was a very positive
thing. Of course, they had a
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deadline, and the deadline would be
December 20th of the following year. If
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in this period of time, more
or less November of one thousand nine hundred
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and fifteen until December twenty thousand nine
hundred and sixteen failed to make rain,
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they were lost. If they couldn' t get the water up more than
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forty inches, it wouldn' t
win anything, and from there everything would
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be gain at the bewildering gaze of
those public officials in the city of San
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Diego, all of them, with
their bow tie, their very ironed suit,
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their little bulb hat and very unbelieving. That guy politely says good-
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bye, leaving a card straight away. It leaves, of course, that
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in the face of such an offer, you and I would laugh a little,
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but after a few more days and
in the face of the impossibility of
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raining and in the face of despair, the City Council meets when one of
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the members of the Council comments that
a handsome young man of Hatteld' s
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name has come to make this proposal
and tells them what that subject proposes,
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more than one of the advisers laughs
is. However, at the end of
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the day the counselors decided to accept
the offer for a simple reason anyway,
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wasn' t it raining? And
if this guy didn' t make it
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rain, nothing would happen? Anyway, wasn' t it raining? And
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if it made it rain less than
forty inches, that is, it raised
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the level of Lake Morena, less
than forty inches, anyway, I wouldn
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' t pay you anything. So
it was winning, winning and, of
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course, if by some strange chance
of fate and unknown mysteries and if it
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were raining more than forty inches,
then nothing would happen, because for ten
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thousand dollars these people could bring water
into the city. It wasn' t
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a bad bet. So the Hatfields
accepted the offer. They immediately moved to
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the vicinity of that Lake Morena lake
and began to build a kind of wooden
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towers, as if they were raised
platforms around the lake. They weren'
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t many, they were a few
and they weren' t giant either.
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Scarce to the height of the sky. No, no, it wasn'
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t maybe five meters high, four
meters high, and they set up a
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very nice camp there, with little
tent tents. And the fact is,
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they' ve already started working.
They hadn' t even signed a contract.
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So there was nothing lost. They
start to work more or less In
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early December of that same year of
one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, turning
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a series of substances. In one
of the towers, he was approaching Charles
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Headfield, his brother. It was
passing in a bucket some substances that poured
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in a kind of pyla, a
small butla mixed them and that shed some
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vapors. After that they went to
the next tower and did the same.
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He claimed that his formula secret formulas
included twenty- three different chemicals whose mixture
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in appropriate proportions and in the doses
indicated and only known. For him it
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would produce rain. Of course,
when this came out well, it was
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him who had to laugh. The
newspapers of the time criticized the Council and
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well, even cartoons made them.
People were passing by where the Hatfields were,
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making fun of them, laughing at
some rancher riding around on their horse,
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he kept seeing them while sketching a
smile, because that guy, when
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he was pouring a few drops of
something, was shooing and dropping a lot
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of smoke and he was going back
and there was nothing going on. Apparently
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nothing happened, because things suddenly changed. On January 1, 16th, while
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working on these inventions and their secret
formula, Hatfield did something different. Some
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witnesses who were out there claim that
this guy, after having poured some liquids,
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stood over the tower looking at the
horizon with a long- lost look,
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with a strange hand position as raised, as in a ritual attitude.
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More than something chemical or something in
a ritual attitude, he repeated that and
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made a few movements with his hands
as he watched to then go down and
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move to another of the towers and
repeat the same. For the next three
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or four days I would repeat exactly
the same thing and you know something.
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The fifth day of January of nineteen
hundred and sixteen began to rain and it
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began to rain copiously, very copiously
and so copiously that for the next five
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days it continued to rain. Around
January 10, the situation was a little
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more worrying because there were no longer
intervals between the rains. They had been
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brutally unleashed to the point where,
well, the rainmaker assured that all this
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was normal, although down there in
the city began to grow concern, especially
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when on the fourteenth day the storm
ended up flooding San Diego. It should
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be noted that neither Charles Hatfield nor
his brother were in Santiago. They were
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up 60 kilometers away in the mountains, on Lake Morena. So what was
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raining for them was what was raining
up there. There' s a problem
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with that, and I had no
idea what was going on in San Diego.
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And the problem is that, while
they were there with their rolls and
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their stuff in San Diego, the
storms were of such magnitude that they ended
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up flooding all that. But not
just San Diego. The storm was of
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such magnitude that on the eighteenth of
January, the Ottai dam completely overflowed.
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It completely overflowed. Swithward would also
overflow by the 30th of January. The
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situation was so dramatic that the Water
Suite dam ceded the oty dam broke and
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that caused a series of avenues of
such a dimension that it took away the
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bridges. The riverbeds had no capacity
to absorb such a quantity of water to
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drive them, and they overflowed.
He swept away with the bridges, flooded
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the villages again, took away half
of the small towns around him. Fourteen
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people were killed, dragged railroad cars
loaded with full trains. He took them.
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Of course, the luck of San
Diego is that it is by the
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sea and at the end of the
day the water ended up going to the
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sea. But while this was happening
up there the Hatfield brothers, what they
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did was measure Lake Morena and on
30 January, Lake Morena was fifty inches
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long. So they had fulfilled their
purpose, they could charge to pack their
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things, they keep everything in the
strollers and they start to move forward,
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but as they advance, they realize
that they can' t go anywhere because
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the road that had taken them there
no longer exists. The bridge they had
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crossed to take, the road that
would take them there is no longer.
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When they continue to advance now on
foot, they take the scare of their
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life because the town where they had
bought some food before going there is no
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longer. It should be noted that
a little later, the situation becomes incredibly
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complicated, because when people see them
walking around, more than one points and
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blames them. So they have to
go underground and when they arrive in the
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city clandestinely they go to the city
office with the counselors to collect because they
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had fulfilled. They' d just
done it. They hired them to want
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to rain and the lake up there
in the mountains was counting inches. If
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it was fulfilled, they didn'
t know that this was flooding here and
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that the thing was very serious.
Of course, the city sent them for
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a tube. He didn' t
pay them anything. He didn' t
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pay them anything because the city attorney
said there' s no contract, we
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' re not paying. But that' s not all. The local newspaper
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published a photograph of Charles Hetfield pointing
to him as the culprit, and this
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caused him to be lynched by the
people of the villages, the ranchers.
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All these people fell on him if
the Rainmaker had been so successful that they
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were now chasing him. They had
to run off on a horse, leaving
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their things, leaving their good little
carriage, terrible situation. The result was
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terrible. There were dead people,
there was destruction. The Carfields had to
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run away. Like I said,
they' d never get paid. Actually,
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let me tell you something. When
Chorge Hatfield spoke to the press a
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few days later to complain that he
had not been paid by the city of
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San Diego, what he answered was
yes, of course, we paid you,
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but you paid us. The$
35 million you caused in damages wasn
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' t a good offer. Years
later, Hatfield would sue the city again
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in the 1930s, trying to collect
that in a process known as the civil
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case twenty- six hundred and two, Hetfield sued the city. Finally,
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the Supreme Court determined that the flood
had been the work of God and,
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therefore, Hatheld would not have to
pay for the damage caused, but neither
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would he receive any payment and there
was no way to discuss it. It
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' s interesting the Hatfield theme would
work elsewhere. It would not be the
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only Chorles Hatfield site to repeat this
kind of strange feats in many parts of
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the United States. Charles Hetfieldâ
s fame would lead to the appearance of
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numerous rainmakers in the United States.
They often traveled through Texas, Arizona Nevada,
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offering their services. Hatfield himself would
travel through many States and, despite
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the doubts that had been raised.
What' s a fact is that in
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many places, talking about Charles Hatfield
was talking about rain. Simple chance.
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I don' t know. In
the forties it would no longer be of
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great interest to hire rainmakers. For
a simple reason, a procedure known as
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cloud sowing would begin, a technical
procedure in which airplanes flying at intermediate height
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over the clouds sprayed different substances that
caused condensation and, obviously, rain.
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Substances of silver salts and the or
echo some other minerals that were mixed and
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sprayed on the clouds caused condensation and
rain. However, there was one detail.
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For the cloud sowing to work,
there must be clouds and Charles Hatfield
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did not depend on clouds, but
there can always be chance. Don'
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t forget it. In the case
of Hatfield, Well, the coincidence is
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that he worked to flood San Diego
and burst the dams in a season that
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is conducive to rains in the region
and although it hadn' t rained in
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a long time, the fact that
Hetfield was there casually in the rainy season
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after four years meant that there was
a very high chance that it would actually
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rain with or without Hatfield. What
is curious, however, is that just
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a few days after Hatfield began his
work the mysterious one where he raised his
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hands and all this fell into a
flood. Why not before, if they
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were in the middle of the rainy
season, Perhaps the later rains would be
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justified like this, but what is
a fact is that in the middle is
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a journey in an apparent calm where
there were not even clouds. Suddenly the
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sky was completely enraptured and a flood
fell. It can be simple work of
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chance. I don' t deny
it, but maybe after hearing about this
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other case, your view of the
matter may change, and this is a
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very Latin American case. I don' t know if you' ve ever
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heard of Juan Baygorrivela bay Gorry,
as he was known or b b.
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Baygorri was a citizen born in Uruguay
in one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
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one. He was a mad scientist, you could say or some kind of
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cirrus, pear crazy about why,
because he was a man who from a
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very early age became interested in technical
issues. He was an engineer. He
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then specialized in geophysics and was very
soon locating oil mantles. That was his
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job and, of course, also
mineral deposits. But besides, it was
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an excellent domante rap. He could
locate streams with amazing ease and even more
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amazing precision. Baygorri not only located
it, but had the ability to tell
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how much depth they had to dig, how many inches they were going to
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sprout from that excavation, water quality, etcetera, etcetera. And, of
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course, this applied, for example, to oil, which was even more
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unusual. Of course, a lot
of people didn' t trust him.
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However, one good day, this
man, who had many concerns, begins
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to work on a new project that
goes very badly, because every time he
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turns it on, he cannot work, because it rains bits of the trade.
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He was trying to locate something with
this box, a kind of wooden
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box like that, in which he
had a series of devices that he himself
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had created, whose design and content
was secret. The box was closed every
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time it was finished. The fact
is that he was trying to locate some
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deposits with this and it rains on
him, he changes places, he goes
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somewhere else and when he starts to
work with this and turns on his apparatus,
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it rains again. It' s
a thousand nine hundred and thirty-
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thirty. He has been working in
different regions ranging from Chile, Argentina,
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Uruguay, Paraguay. He' s
gone and come over here somewhere, but
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suddenly he starts to tie things up
and he seems to have to have some
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relationship with this because he' s
realized that when he turns on the device,
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he starts to see a series of
weird things around him. A usual
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in nus sensation in the environment,
clouds and rains. He does not lose
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sight that he is a lover rapture, that is, he is a sauri
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He is someone who travels the fields
and locates streams of water. After some
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time, he has a concern to
create a more sophisticated and specific apparatus to
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create rain. Having married, good
friend Baygorri is looking for a house.
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But actually, what you' re
doing is looking for a house for your
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experiments. And get a house in
a very high place. He travels half
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a city carrying with him a kind
of altimeter, an atmospheric pressure mediator that
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allows him to know the high points. And that' s how he chooses
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the place where he' s going
to live, because in that place the
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highest, there' s no interference
for his experiments. In the loft of
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the house he installs his laboratory and
thus begins to work. Baygorria had been
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married before. So be his second
wife. Everything' s going very well.
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Everything' s going very well,
because, well, finally, he
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' s got some work to do. His deposit locations have fed him more
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than once, but his invention of
rain is something he wants to try.
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For a thousand nine hundred and thirty- eight he manages to convince the manager
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of the Argentine Central Railway to lend
him a wagon with which he is going
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to run tests mounted on the wagon
he carries his things and is going to
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run tests. That good man says
it' s okay. It' s
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okay. It' s all right, I' ve already done some tests.
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It was kind of attractive around there. The fact is that bay cap
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and is mounted on the train that
and goes through different regions, specifically looking
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to meet a social demand of Santiago
del Estero. In this place there had
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been a terrible drought, animals,
dead, dry fields, poor people and
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he decided to help them. The
first tests are not very efficient, despite
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the fact that it does not make
rain what is a fact is that it
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manages to find excellent water deposits that
boreholes generate wells and this helps the Community,
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which is appreciated. Go only.
They had spent months drilling without finding
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any deposit and Baygorri arrived and in
a two by three finds great underground water
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deposits that help enormously, but promises
to return shortly before the end of the
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year. And before the report they
had made of their work. Another engineer,
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an agronomist engineer, who had accompanied
the head of the rural development of
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the railway, there was myatelium,
there was my athelium, he had made
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a report where he pointed out that, although they had not succeeded, the
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work had been amazing and that even
if it had not rained in large quantities,
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he considered that it was worth the
effort. So by December they'
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ll lend him the train again.
They give him some help on the part
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of the Argentine railway and he returns
to Santiago del Estero and begins to assemble
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his kachivaches those. When a peasant
passes by and says sorry, you'
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re going to be raining, yes, I can ask you, please,
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it won' t be raining at
the end of the year the old night,
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because the party would be ruined.
It' s okay. For a
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while. Then a rancher passes by
and tells him to listen, listen,
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we could keep it from raining at
the end of the year for the party.
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So it' s not if it' s okay. I' ve
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already been asked for a while.
Then there' s someone else who insists
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on it again and says,"
Well, it' s okay. For
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everyone to know, I' m
not gonna make it rain at the end
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of the year. It' ll
rain after the new year. You'
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ll think you' re crazy and
throw a marble at you. Or what
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kind of a joke this was,
because this man doesn' t keep his
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promise. Wait the party passes and
he' s there, in Santiago del
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Estero. It should be noted that
in Santiago del Estero it had not rained
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for fifty years. Imagine the size
of the problem they had and this man
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finally tells them it' s okay, it' s going to rain and
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it' s going to rain hard, but I' ll wait a bit.
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In fact, not many days would
pass, practically nothing past the holidays,
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that man took out his box.
Like that box, he pulled out
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some antennas, placed it on top, lit that device in some way and
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started raining like it had never rained
in a single rain. Of course,
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it was amazing. After the work, he closed his box, kept the
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antennas, rode on the railroad and
returned to Argentina, to Buenos Aires.
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Upon returning that was chaos in the
newspaper, criticism demonstrated the work done by
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Bragn in Santiago del Estero and fame
began to grow. Of course, more
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than one asked how he did it
to tell us the secret wasn' t
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going to reveal it. I was
never going to reveal it. It should
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be noted that at all times Baygorry
also lit that the device moved him one
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perolite, moved him another and then
looked up at the sky in a perfectly
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clear sky. Suddenly it began to
yellow the banks, it began to grow
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and suddenly it was totally plumb,
the horizon and raining. Baygorri' s
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apparatus was called the plubiogen and clear
when it comes out in the newspaper,
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in the criticism that I demonstrates of
all the wonders of the rain and of
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the outstanding scientist Baygorri. Of course, at the same time, the people
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of the capital, the meteorologists,
didn' t see it with any grace
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and they didn' t see it
with any grace because they had predicted a
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total drought and good came out upside
down completely. They argued that it was
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a coincidence, that it didn'
t work, that that was taken by
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the hair trying to demerit it and, of course, other newspapers competing with
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the critics, published the notes of
the meteorologists and the critics published the notes
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of by Gorry and then the critics
themselves published notes found to sell sold very
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well the great news Baygorry was news
where he came with his box and his
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appearance as a serious man. He
was a man over forty. And when
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all this happens in the midst of
this confusion, in January of thirty-
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nine, Bye Gorri tells you something
in response to the censorship of my procedure.
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I have to give good rain to
Buenos Aires. On the third day
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of January, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty- nine, of course,
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the other newspaper published a commentary from
meteorologists saying that was impossible. Well immediately
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and just as it had happened in
Santiago del Estero, people began to ask
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that it should not rain that day, please let it pass a little bit
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that would not make me see before, By Gorri, please, because you
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spoil us the old year. The
fact is that on the third day,
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specifically on the third day of January
of a thousand nine hundred and thirty-
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nine, there was a tremendous storm, a shower of those of the time
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that wet the city to no longer
be able to face the complacent, happy
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look, sitting in his loft looking
out of the window of by Gorry.
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Again, that happened not to like
anyone, but good. The fact is
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that people were so excited that they
started singing a song that said it rains,
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it rains, it goes, and
Gorry is in the cave. It
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plugs in the device and it rains
at all times, but what the hell
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that device had. One good day, Baigorri begins to ask for milk in
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his hand. It' s been
raining in different places, sometimes with resounding
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success, sometimes not. So much, it should be noted that sometimes by
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Gorry had barely achieved a few drops. On other occasions not only did it
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not fail, but it caused the
dams to overflow. Such was the case
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of Carhué where he caused a rain
in January in tremendous dry season, but
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he was a man already tired,
more or less tired suddenly. Not being
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able to rain on certain occasions led
him back to what he knew how to
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do perfectly. Locate oil wells.
He found an oil well, a tremendous
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deposit, one of the best deposit
in southern Buenos Aires. However, he
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was never recognized. He came into
government power and was never recognized by Gorri
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was frustrated by this. At some
point he also dared to ask for some
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help. He had offered his services
in an honorary manner to provoke the rain,
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but at some point, due to
some economic pressure, due to some
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situation, he asked for some assistance. However, the response from the authorities
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at that time was to send a
detailed report on the scientific technical bases of
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your apparatus so that, in accordance
with the request, we can assess it.
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He never got a quarter for this. He just said no way he
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would lock himself in his loft and
not share the secret. Years later,
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he would participate in a television program, in the People Mancera program in nine
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hundred and sixty- eight years later, which was very unpleasant, because apparently
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no one believed him. He was
a very greater man the successes of the
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strike had remained there. He would
die in the seventies after having destroyed himself,
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the blueprints of his invention and the
very unknown comparator invention what he could
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have done. In Hatfield' s
case, he made sure that he was
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a good weatherman waiting for conditions,
that he knew where it could rain where
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it didn' t, that he
didn' t risk going to the desert
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to look for rain. But in
Baygorri' s case it wasn' t
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like that. This man went to
places where he knew it didn' t
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rain for fifty years and suddenly rain
is no coincidence. In other regions there
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were people who had seen rain in
their lives until Baygorri arrived. The apparatus
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as such also did not seem to
have much from where. It wasn'
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t any sophisticated gadget. He said
it contained some radioactive materials and it issued
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a magnetic signal, which concentrated water, etcetera, etcetera. But even today,
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with much more powerful devices, with
very sophisticated equipment, it doesn'
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t work. That' s what
you want me to tell you. Some
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theorists of this consider that the secret
was not really the aparatito that could be
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a simple box with some circuits and
that produced a stimulus in Baigorri himself,
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who was the one who generated the
rain, as I said before. In
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the case of the boy in Martinique, it was this movement, this concentration.
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In Hatfield' s case, incidentally, the rains didn' t happen
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because of that little smoke coming out, because they weren' t really big
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columns of smoke, but a little
bit of smoke coming out of the mix.
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Of this you have seen the photo
was a twenty- litre bucket where
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you made your mixtures. In the
case of by Gorry, something very similar
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could have happened. The fact of
having this little device, which produced some
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sort of magnetic field. It could
have stimulated extrasensory capacity, a pca capacity
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of cyco kinesis that altered the environment. Yeah, if we' re thinking
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about the same thing, you and
I are thinking about super men, these
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x men capable of altering the environment. It would be this because that little
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box really had what it could have
had inside. It would have been a
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couple of bulbs. Note that this
was done in a thousand nine hundred and
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thirty- eight. I could'
ve had a solenoid out there some little
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thing, some antenitas, like it
was a radius of bulbs that could hardly
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have achieved anything if it weren'
t, because there was a paragnsta mind
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like Baygorri' s. Behind this, I think it rained the people of
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the time. He assures us.
I didn' t see him, but
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the testimonies of the time claim that
the oldest people did. The old people
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said that they saw rain there and
that then, for the next twenty years,
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it didn' t rain again Now. There' s always trouble with
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this. In Hatville' s case, the storms were appalling. That had
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been solved in a very simple way
if they had hired Rolf Alexander Rolf Alexander.
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So exactly the opposite. While Hetfield
caused rain and by Gorry caused rain
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Rolf Alexander dissipated storms and knows how
he did it by looking at them.
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All he did was raise his hands. They stared at the storm clouds and
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began to dissipate. I know it
sounds fantastic, but people, in their
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time, claimed it was true.
Casualities, legends, how to know.
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But keep on being interesting, because
I have witnessed precisely a sauri and I
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have seen that that moves without him
doing it. So there' s got
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to be something else. And now, if I may, let' s
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go with some rainy greetings, a
very cordial greeting and a hug for Brillit
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Tamaroni and her daughter Sisbelis. We
send a big hug to both of you
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waiting for you to see this greeting
and, of course, a huge congratulations
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for Imeldas al Azar and Creete El
Salazar Happy birthday. For Samaria Lopez,
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who turned fifteen, the age of
illusions and all that we hope she has
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danced. I love the fifteen-
year- old parties with us in a
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dance dress Vaal pastries. I don' t know why people don' t
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get so much attention anymore. If
it was something very nice. Christian Ruiz,
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he greets his brother Israel because of
birthday. Hel Sebet Camacho birthday.
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It' s a hug, Helzbed
Thank you so much for joining us.
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Alessandro. Alessandro and his father Sergio
RamÃrez, who is in Guadalajara, congratulate
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him and send him a strong hug
again for both of them. Thank you
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very much. Javier Laurent, what
a birthday, a congratulations Fernando BenÃtez.
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Fernando BenÃtez is very much congratulated.
To his wife, Marta Velázquez sends many
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hugs and many kisses. Happy birthday
Carlos Sanchez and his wife Monica Abregó,
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who also accompany us always. And
of course thank Betty Pacheco, Carlos Sánchez,
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Raúl Jiménez, MarÃa I se Aguirre, Patricia Vázquez and, of course,
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Patrick Rosas for all the generosity they
have had to us through their donations
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in the videos of the channel.
Thank you all so much. Good night
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and rest in peace
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Most people in big cities do not
care much if the rain is lacking.
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I mean, unless you have a
huge garden and depend on the rain so
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that your garden is beautiful, I
don' t think you' re very
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interested in the subject of rain.
Of course it' s excessive and it
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starts to refuse around here They cover
the sewers and start flooding into the city.
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We' re all worried. However, the situation in the countryside is
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different. In the field, crops
depend on rain. The life of animals,
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livestock, prayers, as I call
you, also depends on rain.
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If there is no water, everything
dies and at the end of the day
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you should also be concerned because in
large cities often water comes not only from
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deep wells, but from surface reservoirs
where large amounts of water are stored,
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millions of cubic meters that are then
filtered and used for roughness. So it
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' s a very important issue.
When there is a long drought, things
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can get very tense. Now imagine
yourself in an ancient age. Obviously,
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ancient Americans and people from all over
the world invented rituals whose function was to
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attract rain, the dance of rain, the dance of rain. Of course,
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the Atlaloc cult not only to ask
for rain, but also to stop
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the rain. Either of the two
things had interesting cults over time, with
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the variation of beliefs and the concept
of reality. It was no longer necessary
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to have a shaman dancing, an
ancient priest dancing and singing songs to invoke
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the rain. Now there were the
rainmakers. Yes, rainmakers. Those who
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make it rain. And this is
a very interesting story that has been suggested
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to us by the audience. And
so, tonight we will be talking about
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the rain stories from the dark side, strange beings, unexplained events, stories
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that other minds prefer to ignore.
I' m telling you a very old
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case. In a thousand seven hundred
and twenty- four, Dominican priest Jan
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Battiste Labat wrote his memoirs about what
he had lived. This man had traveled
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on half a planet and about one
thousand six hundred and ninety was in the
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Caribbean, in the region of the
coast of Venezuela towards the islands, specifically
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in Martinique. There the priest Jambattiste
Labat, who at that time was a
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Dominican prior, witnessed something that impressed
him very much by being there and talking
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with some other priests, fellow priests
and friends. One of them complained bitterly
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that there had been no rain in
some time and were losing sugar crops.
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In this area there were large sugar
plantations and slavery. So if there was
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no sugar, there was no food
to buy. There was going to be
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trouble. Let me tell you something
terrible, and it' s that,
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well, the good Jean Baptiste had
his own sugar farm. He was a
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very progressive man who brought new technology
and all that, but he also had
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many slaves. The point is that, while he' s talking to those
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people and putting out his concern,
a child who' s around for about
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nine or ten years is coming.
This child had been brought from Guinea as
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part of a lot of slaves.
He was an original African child and had
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been brought as a slave. One
of the priests who had taken charge of
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the education and care of this creature
was Father Freize Freis, who had him
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as a kind of assistant, a
young man who was already being sent.
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They' re there talking about the
concern about rain. When the little one
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asks them how much they want it
to rain and they laugh. Obviously,
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it wasn' t about whether it
was raining or not simply raining The child
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who, by the way, had
learned to speak French. Being with Father
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Fraizy tells them that he can make
it rain, but it depends on how
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much they want it to rain.
There' s a laugh there and one
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of them slaps him on the back
and laughs and the kid tells them they
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like it. Of course, this
child is learning to speak French. He
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does not interpret well what one should
be laughing at or what these friars are
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talking about. The fact is that
they keep talking and he tells them well,
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they' re going to want it
to rain or not. And one
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of them says yes, of course, we do want it to rain,
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but nothing has rained. You'
re not watching. You have a coconut
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head and the kid tells them that
I can make it rain. There is
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some doubt about it, because those
friars do not know whether to take it
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as a joke, if you are
serious. The fact is, they call
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it a witchcraft or what. The
child does not understand very well what it
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is about. I repeat, you
have learned to speak French a short time
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ago. One of the priests who' s there says good. This creature
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has not been baptized. Therefore,
he does not incur sins and does one
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of his dances. Another one of
the priests out there is also king and
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says good. It will be entertaining
to see what these people did. Jean
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Baptiste Labat, the prior was a
man who had been closely related to naturalism,
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a field researcher in botany biology.
So he was also interested in ancient
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customs in Africa. I met the
rituals over there. So forward, for
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my part, no problem. The
child is not baptized, he does not
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commit sin. They all sit down
and tell you forward. The little one
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quickly goes and gets three oranges that
were out there somewhere, in some basket
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somewhere pulls out three oranges. Then
return and place some twigs in certain positions.
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But to place twigs in certain positions, he puts a twig into a
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series of genuflections, he does a
series of rites. Then put another twig
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and do the same thing and do
it again and put an orange, put
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another one. That I take about
fifteen minutes in what places three oranges and
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three twigs. Then, when you' re done placing all this, you
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throw yourself on the floor and wait
for a moment while you sing something.
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Then he gets up very ceremonious and
takes one of the twigs that has been
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there with the oranges on the floor. That begins to move it, begins
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to turn it and then takes another
of the twigs, lifts them up and
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the sky, and begins to do
something a kind of dancing, while looking
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at the horizon fixedly and towards the
sky. Priests who have been watching him
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for a while are surprised by this
whole ritual. No one knows exactly what
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he' s saying. He'
s talking in his local dialect of Guinea,
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in Africa, and they' re
hundreds from there. The matter is
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that a few moments later and according
to the testimony of Jean Baptiste Labat,
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the Dominican prior on the island of
Martinique, in that one thousand and six
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hundred and ninety. According to his
testimony, he saw it. He saw
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as suddenly in the middle of those
dances that this child did. The sky
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began to enrapture. Suddenly. It
wasn' t something that was being little
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clouds. He didn' t suddenly
start to fall for it. It got
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orange and then it began to blacken
the sky and and or and it rained
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in pitchers for almost an hour later, the boy took his oranges, took
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his twigs, went around the back, dug a hole and placed everything and
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covered it up. Then he returned
very happy. The astonishment was enormous because
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there had fallen a flood of a
very intense hour, which had filled the
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different aljÃvers, which had watered the
sugar fields, which had done wonders but
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there was one more detail exactly where
all the friars were sitting. I don
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' t see. According to Father
Labat, what caused everyone the most astonishment
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is that everything around it rained except
where they were. In that place,
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where the friars were, they didn' t get wet. It was a
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thing that this man narrated and claimed
that he had no idea how he had
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achieved it, because they did not
understand what the hell he had said.
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Of course, the situation of all
this was very unusual. Whatever I would
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have said. Only the priests who
were there at that time, who were
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Father Temple Rossi, Bournoy and Frace, were absolutely surprised and would narrate it
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in their memories of a thousand seven
hundred and twenty- two. So this
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situation of rain creation is not something
new, but it is somewhat intriguing.
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The child did not use any kind
of chemical substance, he did not use
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anything that could be interpreted as minimally
scientific. Don' t let him out
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of your sight, because from here
we' re going to go somewhere completely
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different. Now we' re in
San Diego, in California, in this
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United States of America, in nine
hundred and fifteen, and things are really
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bad. It' s been almost
four years since a drop rained. The
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reservoirs, both those of Lake Morena
and those of swit Water or Otai,
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are the three large reservoirs, are
completely empty or, at least, have
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such a rickety endowment that it is
not enough to meet the needs of a
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modern city. By nineteen hundred and
fifteen, San Diego was a very large
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city by the standards of the time
and was also very modern. Let me
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explain this because while there was World
War I in Europe, there was an
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interesting economic boom here. America'
s industrial capacity had done impressive things.
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So San Diego has trams, has
cars, lots of cars, has bridges,
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roads, well- made bridges,
not things. There, the roads
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are very good and the quality of
life in nine hundred and fifteen in San
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Diego would like to have it in
the North States. The fact is that
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all this bonanza and all this beauty
is at risk, because this city depends
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on the water that comes from both
the reservoirs of Lake Morena, which is
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the largest, the dam of Ottai, which is a little lower, and
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of Swethwater, which is also important. All of these together are San Diego
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water storages and are practically empty.
In the face of this concern and the
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fact that there is nothing at all, it does not rain, there are
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no clouds, the atmospheric conditions are
quite precarious. The forecast of the meteorology
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specialists at the time was that it
would be several months before it rained,
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at least until the following season.
In this area of California, the rainy
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season runs from early October to late
March, more or less, with some
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rain still in April. Therefore,
when at the beginning of November that thousand
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nine hundred and fifteen has not rained. It is expected that again it will
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be a very difficult season. Perhaps
thatâ s why they were so funny
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when that young man put up came
to the desk and asked to be allowed
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to make an offer. The handsome
young man came to the city offices,
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where he proposed that, with a
modern invention of his authorship, he would
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be able to rain the name of
this boy and his brother Era Headfield.
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Both Charles and his brother Joel proposed
to the city something very simple to raise
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without n n ns counts inches the
level of Lake Morena, the main reservoir
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of water, but in a very
peculiar way. The first forty inches would
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be free courtesy of the Hatfield brothers. The next inches every inch that went
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up the level would be at a
cost of a thousand dollars from fifty inches.
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The rest that fell into the dam
was free of charge was simply at
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no cost, so if they were
successful, they would get about ten thousand
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dollars. It was a very positive
thing. Of course, they had a
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deadline, and the deadline would be
December 20th of the following year. If
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in this period of time, more
or less November of one thousand nine hundred
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and fifteen until December twenty thousand nine
hundred and sixteen failed to make rain,
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they were lost. If they couldn' t get the water up more than
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forty inches, it wouldn' t
win anything, and from there everything would
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be gain at the bewildering gaze of
those public officials in the city of San
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Diego, all of them, with
their bow tie, their very ironed suit,
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their little bulb hat and very unbelieving. That guy politely says good-
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bye, leaving a card straight away. It leaves, of course, that
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in the face of such an offer, you and I would laugh a little,
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but after a few more days and
in the face of the impossibility of
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raining and in the face of despair, the City Council meets when one of
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the members of the Council comments that
a handsome young man of Hatteld' s
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name has come to make this proposal
and tells them what that subject proposes,
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more than one of the advisers laughs
is. However, at the end of
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the day the counselors decided to accept
the offer for a simple reason anyway,
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wasn' t it raining? And
if this guy didn' t make it
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rain, nothing would happen? Anyway, wasn' t it raining? And
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if it made it rain less than
forty inches, that is, it raised
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the level of Lake Morena, less
than forty inches, anyway, I wouldn
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' t pay you anything. So
it was winning, winning and, of
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course, if by some strange chance
of fate and unknown mysteries and if it
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were raining more than forty inches,
then nothing would happen, because for ten
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thousand dollars these people could bring water
into the city. It wasn' t
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a bad bet. So the Hatfields
accepted the offer. They immediately moved to
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the vicinity of that Lake Morena lake
and began to build a kind of wooden
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towers, as if they were raised
platforms around the lake. They weren'
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t many, they were a few
and they weren' t giant either.
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Scarce to the height of the sky. No, no, it wasn'
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t maybe five meters high, four
meters high, and they set up a
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very nice camp there, with little
tent tents. And the fact is,
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they' ve already started working.
They hadn' t even signed a contract.
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So there was nothing lost. They
start to work more or less In
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early December of that same year of
one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, turning
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a series of substances. In one
of the towers, he was approaching Charles
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Headfield, his brother. It was
passing in a bucket some substances that poured
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in a kind of pyla, a
small butla mixed them and that shed some
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vapors. After that they went to
the next tower and did the same.
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He claimed that his formula secret formulas
included twenty- three different chemicals whose mixture
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in appropriate proportions and in the doses
indicated and only known. For him it
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would produce rain. Of course,
when this came out well, it was
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him who had to laugh. The
newspapers of the time criticized the Council and
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well, even cartoons made them.
People were passing by where the Hatfields were,
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making fun of them, laughing at
some rancher riding around on their horse,
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he kept seeing them while sketching a
smile, because that guy, when
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he was pouring a few drops of
something, was shooing and dropping a lot
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of smoke and he was going back
and there was nothing going on. Apparently
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nothing happened, because things suddenly changed. On January 1, 16th, while
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working on these inventions and their secret
formula, Hatfield did something different. Some
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witnesses who were out there claim that
this guy, after having poured some liquids,
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stood over the tower looking at the
horizon with a long- lost look,
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with a strange hand position as raised, as in a ritual attitude.
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More than something chemical or something in
a ritual attitude, he repeated that and
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made a few movements with his hands
as he watched to then go down and
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move to another of the towers and
repeat the same. For the next three
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or four days I would repeat exactly
the same thing and you know something.
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The fifth day of January of nineteen
hundred and sixteen began to rain and it
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began to rain copiously, very copiously
and so copiously that for the next five
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days it continued to rain. Around
January 10, the situation was a little
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more worrying because there were no longer
intervals between the rains. They had been
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brutally unleashed to the point where,
well, the rainmaker assured that all this
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was normal, although down there in
the city began to grow concern, especially
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when on the fourteenth day the storm
ended up flooding San Diego. It should
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be noted that neither Charles Hatfield nor
his brother were in Santiago. They were
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up 60 kilometers away in the mountains, on Lake Morena. So what was
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raining for them was what was raining
up there. There' s a problem
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with that, and I had no
idea what was going on in San Diego.
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And the problem is that, while
they were there with their rolls and
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their stuff in San Diego, the
storms were of such magnitude that they ended
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up flooding all that. But not
just San Diego. The storm was of
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such magnitude that on the eighteenth of
January, the Ottai dam completely overflowed.
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It completely overflowed. Swithward would also
overflow by the 30th of January. The
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situation was so dramatic that the Water
Suite dam ceded the oty dam broke and
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that caused a series of avenues of
such a dimension that it took away the
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bridges. The riverbeds had no capacity
to absorb such a quantity of water to
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drive them, and they overflowed.
He swept away with the bridges, flooded
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the villages again, took away half
of the small towns around him. Fourteen
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people were killed, dragged railroad cars
loaded with full trains. He took them.
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Of course, the luck of San
Diego is that it is by the
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sea and at the end of the
day the water ended up going to the
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sea. But while this was happening
up there the Hatfield brothers, what they
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did was measure Lake Morena and on
30 January, Lake Morena was fifty inches
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long. So they had fulfilled their
purpose, they could charge to pack their
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things, they keep everything in the
strollers and they start to move forward,
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but as they advance, they realize
that they can' t go anywhere because
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the road that had taken them there
no longer exists. The bridge they had
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crossed to take, the road that
would take them there is no longer.
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When they continue to advance now on
foot, they take the scare of their
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life because the town where they had
bought some food before going there is no
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longer. It should be noted that
a little later, the situation becomes incredibly
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complicated, because when people see them
walking around, more than one points and
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blames them. So they have to
go underground and when they arrive in the
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city clandestinely they go to the city
office with the counselors to collect because they
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had fulfilled. They' d just
done it. They hired them to want
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to rain and the lake up there
in the mountains was counting inches. If
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it was fulfilled, they didn'
t know that this was flooding here and
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that the thing was very serious.
Of course, the city sent them for
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a tube. He didn' t
pay them anything. He didn' t
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pay them anything because the city attorney
said there' s no contract, we
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' re not paying. But that' s not all. The local newspaper
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published a photograph of Charles Hetfield pointing
to him as the culprit, and this
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caused him to be lynched by the
people of the villages, the ranchers.
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All these people fell on him if
the Rainmaker had been so successful that they
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were now chasing him. They had
to run off on a horse, leaving
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their things, leaving their good little
carriage, terrible situation. The result was
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terrible. There were dead people,
there was destruction. The Carfields had to
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run away. Like I said,
they' d never get paid. Actually,
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let me tell you something. When
Chorge Hatfield spoke to the press a
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few days later to complain that he
had not been paid by the city of
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San Diego, what he answered was
yes, of course, we paid you,
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but you paid us. The$
35 million you caused in damages wasn
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' t a good offer. Years
later, Hatfield would sue the city again
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in the 1930s, trying to collect
that in a process known as the civil
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case twenty- six hundred and two, Hetfield sued the city. Finally,
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the Supreme Court determined that the flood
had been the work of God and,
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therefore, Hatheld would not have to
pay for the damage caused, but neither
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would he receive any payment and there
was no way to discuss it. It
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' s interesting the Hatfield theme would
work elsewhere. It would not be the
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only Chorles Hatfield site to repeat this
kind of strange feats in many parts of
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the United States. Charles Hetfieldâ
s fame would lead to the appearance of
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numerous rainmakers in the United States.
They often traveled through Texas, Arizona Nevada,
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offering their services. Hatfield himself would
travel through many States and, despite
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the doubts that had been raised.
What' s a fact is that in
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many places, talking about Charles Hatfield
was talking about rain. Simple chance.
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I don' t know. In
the forties it would no longer be of
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great interest to hire rainmakers. For
a simple reason, a procedure known as
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cloud sowing would begin, a technical
procedure in which airplanes flying at intermediate height
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over the clouds sprayed different substances that
caused condensation and, obviously, rain.
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Substances of silver salts and the or
echo some other minerals that were mixed and
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sprayed on the clouds caused condensation and
rain. However, there was one detail.
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For the cloud sowing to work,
there must be clouds and Charles Hatfield
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did not depend on clouds, but
there can always be chance. Don'
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t forget it. In the case
of Hatfield, Well, the coincidence is
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that he worked to flood San Diego
and burst the dams in a season that
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is conducive to rains in the region
and although it hadn' t rained in
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a long time, the fact that
Hetfield was there casually in the rainy season
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after four years meant that there was
a very high chance that it would actually
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rain with or without Hatfield. What
is curious, however, is that just
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a few days after Hatfield began his
work the mysterious one where he raised his
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hands and all this fell into a
flood. Why not before, if they
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were in the middle of the rainy
season, Perhaps the later rains would be
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justified like this, but what is
a fact is that in the middle is
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a journey in an apparent calm where
there were not even clouds. Suddenly the
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sky was completely enraptured and a flood
fell. It can be simple work of
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chance. I don' t deny
it, but maybe after hearing about this
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other case, your view of the
matter may change, and this is a
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very Latin American case. I don' t know if you' ve ever
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heard of Juan Baygorrivela bay Gorry,
as he was known or b b.
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Baygorri was a citizen born in Uruguay
in one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
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one. He was a mad scientist, you could say or some kind of
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cirrus, pear crazy about why,
because he was a man who from a
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very early age became interested in technical
issues. He was an engineer. He
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then specialized in geophysics and was very
soon locating oil mantles. That was his
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job and, of course, also
mineral deposits. But besides, it was
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an excellent domante rap. He could
locate streams with amazing ease and even more
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amazing precision. Baygorri not only located
it, but had the ability to tell
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how much depth they had to dig, how many inches they were going to
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sprout from that excavation, water quality, etcetera, etcetera. And, of
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course, this applied, for example, to oil, which was even more
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unusual. Of course, a lot
of people didn' t trust him.
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However, one good day, this
man, who had many concerns, begins
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to work on a new project that
goes very badly, because every time he
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turns it on, he cannot work, because it rains bits of the trade.
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He was trying to locate something with
this box, a kind of wooden
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box like that, in which he
had a series of devices that he himself
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had created, whose design and content
was secret. The box was closed every
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time it was finished. The fact
is that he was trying to locate some
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deposits with this and it rains on
him, he changes places, he goes
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somewhere else and when he starts to
work with this and turns on his apparatus,
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it rains again. It' s
a thousand nine hundred and thirty-
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thirty. He has been working in
different regions ranging from Chile, Argentina,
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Uruguay, Paraguay. He' s
gone and come over here somewhere, but
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suddenly he starts to tie things up
and he seems to have to have some
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relationship with this because he' s
realized that when he turns on the device,
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he starts to see a series of
weird things around him. A usual
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in nus sensation in the environment,
clouds and rains. He does not lose
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sight that he is a lover rapture, that is, he is a sauri
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He is someone who travels the fields
and locates streams of water. After some
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time, he has a concern to
create a more sophisticated and specific apparatus to
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create rain. Having married, good
friend Baygorri is looking for a house.
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But actually, what you' re
doing is looking for a house for your
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experiments. And get a house in
a very high place. He travels half
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a city carrying with him a kind
of altimeter, an atmospheric pressure mediator that
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allows him to know the high points. And that' s how he chooses
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the place where he' s going
to live, because in that place the
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highest, there' s no interference
for his experiments. In the loft of
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the house he installs his laboratory and
thus begins to work. Baygorria had been
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married before. So be his second
wife. Everything' s going very well.
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Everything' s going very well,
because, well, finally, he
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' s got some work to do. His deposit locations have fed him more
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than once, but his invention of
rain is something he wants to try.
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For a thousand nine hundred and thirty- eight he manages to convince the manager
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of the Argentine Central Railway to lend
him a wagon with which he is going
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to run tests mounted on the wagon
he carries his things and is going to
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run tests. That good man says
it' s okay. It' s
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okay. It' s all right, I' ve already done some tests.
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It was kind of attractive around there. The fact is that bay cap
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and is mounted on the train that
and goes through different regions, specifically looking
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to meet a social demand of Santiago
del Estero. In this place there had
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been a terrible drought, animals,
dead, dry fields, poor people and
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he decided to help them. The
first tests are not very efficient, despite
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the fact that it does not make
rain what is a fact is that it
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manages to find excellent water deposits that
boreholes generate wells and this helps the Community,
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which is appreciated. Go only.
They had spent months drilling without finding
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any deposit and Baygorri arrived and in
a two by three finds great underground water
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deposits that help enormously, but promises
to return shortly before the end of the
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year. And before the report they
had made of their work. Another engineer,
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an agronomist engineer, who had accompanied
the head of the rural development of
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the railway, there was myatelium,
there was my athelium, he had made
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a report where he pointed out that, although they had not succeeded, the
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work had been amazing and that even
if it had not rained in large quantities,
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he considered that it was worth the
effort. So by December they'
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ll lend him the train again.
They give him some help on the part
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of the Argentine railway and he returns
to Santiago del Estero and begins to assemble
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his kachivaches those. When a peasant
passes by and says sorry, you'
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re going to be raining, yes, I can ask you, please,
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it won' t be raining at
the end of the year the old night,
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because the party would be ruined.
It' s okay. For a
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while. Then a rancher passes by
and tells him to listen, listen,
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we could keep it from raining at
the end of the year for the party.
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So it' s not if it' s okay. I' ve
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already been asked for a while.
Then there' s someone else who insists
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on it again and says,"
Well, it' s okay. For
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everyone to know, I' m
not gonna make it rain at the end
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of the year. It' ll
rain after the new year. You'
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ll think you' re crazy and
throw a marble at you. Or what
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kind of a joke this was,
because this man doesn' t keep his
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promise. Wait the party passes and
he' s there, in Santiago del
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Estero. It should be noted that
in Santiago del Estero it had not rained
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for fifty years. Imagine the size
of the problem they had and this man
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finally tells them it' s okay, it' s going to rain and
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it' s going to rain hard, but I' ll wait a bit.
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In fact, not many days would
pass, practically nothing past the holidays,
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that man took out his box.
Like that box, he pulled out
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some antennas, placed it on top, lit that device in some way and
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started raining like it had never rained
in a single rain. Of course,
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it was amazing. After the work, he closed his box, kept the
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antennas, rode on the railroad and
returned to Argentina, to Buenos Aires.
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Upon returning that was chaos in the
newspaper, criticism demonstrated the work done by
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Bragn in Santiago del Estero and fame
began to grow. Of course, more
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than one asked how he did it
to tell us the secret wasn' t
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going to reveal it. I was
never going to reveal it. It should
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be noted that at all times Baygorry
also lit that the device moved him one
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perolite, moved him another and then
looked up at the sky in a perfectly
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clear sky. Suddenly it began to
yellow the banks, it began to grow
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and suddenly it was totally plumb,
the horizon and raining. Baygorri' s
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apparatus was called the plubiogen and clear
when it comes out in the newspaper,
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in the criticism that I demonstrates of
all the wonders of the rain and of
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the outstanding scientist Baygorri. Of course, at the same time, the people
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of the capital, the meteorologists,
didn' t see it with any grace
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and they didn' t see it
with any grace because they had predicted a
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total drought and good came out upside
down completely. They argued that it was
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a coincidence, that it didn'
t work, that that was taken by
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the hair trying to demerit it and, of course, other newspapers competing with
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the critics, published the notes of
the meteorologists and the critics published the notes
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of by Gorry and then the critics
themselves published notes found to sell sold very
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well the great news Baygorry was news
where he came with his box and his
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appearance as a serious man. He
was a man over forty. And when
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all this happens in the midst of
this confusion, in January of thirty-
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nine, Bye Gorri tells you something
in response to the censorship of my procedure.
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I have to give good rain to
Buenos Aires. On the third day
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of January, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty- nine, of course,
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the other newspaper published a commentary from
meteorologists saying that was impossible. Well immediately
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and just as it had happened in
Santiago del Estero, people began to ask
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that it should not rain that day, please let it pass a little bit
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that would not make me see before, By Gorri, please, because you
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spoil us the old year. The
fact is that on the third day,
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specifically on the third day of January
of a thousand nine hundred and thirty-
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nine, there was a tremendous storm, a shower of those of the time
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that wet the city to no longer
be able to face the complacent, happy
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look, sitting in his loft looking
out of the window of by Gorry.
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Again, that happened not to like
anyone, but good. The fact is
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that people were so excited that they
started singing a song that said it rains,
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it rains, it goes, and
Gorry is in the cave. It
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plugs in the device and it rains
at all times, but what the hell
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that device had. One good day, Baigorri begins to ask for milk in
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his hand. It' s been
raining in different places, sometimes with resounding
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success, sometimes not. So much, it should be noted that sometimes by
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Gorry had barely achieved a few drops. On other occasions not only did it
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not fail, but it caused the
dams to overflow. Such was the case
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of Carhué where he caused a rain
in January in tremendous dry season, but
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he was a man already tired,
more or less tired suddenly. Not being
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able to rain on certain occasions led
him back to what he knew how to
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do perfectly. Locate oil wells.
He found an oil well, a tremendous
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deposit, one of the best deposit
in southern Buenos Aires. However, he
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was never recognized. He came into
government power and was never recognized by Gorri
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was frustrated by this. At some
point he also dared to ask for some
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help. He had offered his services
in an honorary manner to provoke the rain,
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but at some point, due to
some economic pressure, due to some
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situation, he asked for some assistance. However, the response from the authorities
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at that time was to send a
detailed report on the scientific technical bases of
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your apparatus so that, in accordance
with the request, we can assess it.
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He never got a quarter for this. He just said no way he
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would lock himself in his loft and
not share the secret. Years later,
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he would participate in a television program, in the People Mancera program in nine
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hundred and sixty- eight years later, which was very unpleasant, because apparently
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no one believed him. He was
a very greater man the successes of the
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strike had remained there. He would
die in the seventies after having destroyed himself,
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the blueprints of his invention and the
very unknown comparator invention what he could
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have done. In Hatfield' s
case, he made sure that he was
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a good weatherman waiting for conditions,
that he knew where it could rain where
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it didn' t, that he
didn' t risk going to the desert
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to look for rain. But in
Baygorri' s case it wasn' t
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like that. This man went to
places where he knew it didn' t
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rain for fifty years and suddenly rain
is no coincidence. In other regions there
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were people who had seen rain in
their lives until Baygorri arrived. The apparatus
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as such also did not seem to
have much from where. It wasn'
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t any sophisticated gadget. He said
it contained some radioactive materials and it issued
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a magnetic signal, which concentrated water, etcetera, etcetera. But even today,
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with much more powerful devices, with
very sophisticated equipment, it doesn'
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t work. That' s what
you want me to tell you. Some
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theorists of this consider that the secret
was not really the aparatito that could be
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a simple box with some circuits and
that produced a stimulus in Baigorri himself,
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who was the one who generated the
rain, as I said before. In
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the case of the boy in Martinique, it was this movement, this concentration.
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In Hatfield' s case, incidentally, the rains didn' t happen
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because of that little smoke coming out, because they weren' t really big
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columns of smoke, but a little
bit of smoke coming out of the mix.
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Of this you have seen the photo
was a twenty- litre bucket where
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you made your mixtures. In the
case of by Gorry, something very similar
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could have happened. The fact of
having this little device, which produced some
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sort of magnetic field. It could
have stimulated extrasensory capacity, a pca capacity
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of cyco kinesis that altered the environment. Yeah, if we' re thinking
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about the same thing, you and
I are thinking about super men, these
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x men capable of altering the environment. It would be this because that little
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box really had what it could have
had inside. It would have been a
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couple of bulbs. Note that this
was done in a thousand nine hundred and
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thirty- eight. I could'
ve had a solenoid out there some little
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thing, some antenitas, like it
was a radius of bulbs that could hardly
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have achieved anything if it weren'
t, because there was a paragnsta mind
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like Baygorri' s. Behind this, I think it rained the people of
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the time. He assures us.
I didn' t see him, but
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the testimonies of the time claim that
the oldest people did. The old people
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said that they saw rain there and
that then, for the next twenty years,
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it didn' t rain again Now. There' s always trouble with
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this. In Hatville' s case, the storms were appalling. That had
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been solved in a very simple way
if they had hired Rolf Alexander Rolf Alexander.
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So exactly the opposite. While Hetfield
caused rain and by Gorry caused rain
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Rolf Alexander dissipated storms and knows how
he did it by looking at them.
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All he did was raise his hands. They stared at the storm clouds and
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began to dissipate. I know it
sounds fantastic, but people, in their
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time, claimed it was true.
Casualities, legends, how to know.
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But keep on being interesting, because
I have witnessed precisely a sauri and I
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have seen that that moves without him
doing it. So there' s got
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to be something else. And now, if I may, let' s
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go with some rainy greetings, a
very cordial greeting and a hug for Brillit
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Tamaroni and her daughter Sisbelis. We
send a big hug to both of you
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waiting for you to see this greeting
and, of course, a huge congratulations
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for Imeldas al Azar and Creete El
Salazar Happy birthday. For Samaria Lopez,
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who turned fifteen, the age of
illusions and all that we hope she has
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danced. I love the fifteen-
year- old parties with us in a
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dance dress Vaal pastries. I don' t know why people don' t
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get so much attention anymore. If
it was something very nice. Christian Ruiz,
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he greets his brother Israel because of
birthday. Hel Sebet Camacho birthday.
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It' s a hug, Helzbed
Thank you so much for joining us.
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Alessandro. Alessandro and his father Sergio
RamÃrez, who is in Guadalajara, congratulate
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him and send him a strong hug
again for both of them. Thank you
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very much. Javier Laurent, what
a birthday, a congratulations Fernando BenÃtez.
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Fernando BenÃtez is very much congratulated.
To his wife, Marta Velázquez sends many
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hugs and many kisses. Happy birthday
Carlos Sanchez and his wife Monica Abregó,
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who also accompany us always. And
of course thank Betty Pacheco, Carlos Sánchez,
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Raúl Jiménez, MarÃa I se Aguirre, Patricia Vázquez and, of course,
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Patrick Rosas for all the generosity they
have had to us through their donations
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in the videos of the channel.
Thank you all so much. Good night
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and rest in peace







