ColinEssex
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Over the last 3 or 4 sundays on the BBC, there has been a drama programme about how the Americans created a "secret" department called "Stormshield" and their job was to deflect hurricanes from the USA by creating a new weather system to act as the shield.
Obviously, it all went a bit wrong, and they deflected the hurricane from Miami to New York.
Making the new weather system off the west coast then created heavy rain over the southern states - Louisiana, Arkansas etc - when it then had to hit and deflect the hurricane.
Does the USA actually do this? (try to control the weather) or is it all fiction?
There was reference that the USA did it in Vietnam to upset the Viet Cong troop movements, don't know if that's true
There was a brilliant line in it from the US Government Department in charge of it. Stormshield were arguing that the heavy rain would be 6" and the Mississippi would rise and burst its banks and flood and kill people.
The government person said "we won't say it was man-made" - then Stormshield said the news people would soon suss it out, so the government person said "we always decide what does or does not get on the evening news, leave that to us"
Col
Obviously, it all went a bit wrong, and they deflected the hurricane from Miami to New York.
Making the new weather system off the west coast then created heavy rain over the southern states - Louisiana, Arkansas etc - when it then had to hit and deflect the hurricane.
Does the USA actually do this? (try to control the weather) or is it all fiction?
There was reference that the USA did it in Vietnam to upset the Viet Cong troop movements, don't know if that's true
There was a brilliant line in it from the US Government Department in charge of it. Stormshield were arguing that the heavy rain would be 6" and the Mississippi would rise and burst its banks and flood and kill people.
The government person said "we won't say it was man-made" - then Stormshield said the news people would soon suss it out, so the government person said "we always decide what does or does not get on the evening news, leave that to us"
Col
