Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easy Company's orders were to sit tight near the British consulate until morning. A drizzling rain had begun to fall. We wrapped ourselves in ponchos and tried to get some sleep but it was hard to sleep. The sky was alight with the red glare from half a dozen fires in the harbor area. Naval guns thundered intermittently. Now & then we heard bursts of small-arms fire and the flat, deadly sound of mortars...
...comfort Reader Gulp to know that an overdose of silver iodide will often result in no rain...
...ever occur to you that these crazy scientists and their overdoses of silver iodide could very well cause a repetition of the famous 40-days rain...
Several years ago, [the late] H. T. Gisborne ... of the Northern Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station contacted Dr. Schaefer about the possibilities of inducing rain over forest fires. When Dr. Schaefer learned of our high percentage of lightning-caused forest fires, he began looking into the rather fantastic idea of stopping lightning at its source...
...only part of a process by which Alaskan military commanders were getting ready for trouble. The command had taken great pains to rehearse the evacuation of wives & children of servicemen. At Kodiak, women & children had been tagged, checked off big lists, and marched to the waterfront in a driving rain to test the evacuation plan. At Fairbanks, Big Delta, Shemya and Adak, they had hurried to airfields with their baggage...