San Diego’s Overpowered Rainmaker

San Diego’s Overpowered Rainmaker

In 1915, during a historic drought, San Diego hired a "Rain Maker" to bring precipitation. Soon after, excessive rainfall led to floods and even caused a dam to break. However, the city refused to pay him-apparently, he had made it rain too much.

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