When the US Government Tried to Control Hurricanes: Project Stormfury

There was a brief period- actually more than two decades,- when the US government thought that they may actually be able to limit the awesome power of nature’s vortex. The ambitious "Project Stormfury" deserves to be remembered.

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[TheHistoryGuyChannel]

It seems odd that I have to say this, but this video was made with no political agenda, and, of course, was made before Helene's landfall.

[donnaflagg]

Nothing new just ask any Vietnam veteran or someone like me over 70. It’s a shame after I’m gone young folks won’t know what hit ‘em unless they’ve been paying attention. Just remember this …History is recorded by the victorious not the victims that’s why our “history” isn’t accurate or trustworthy and possibly never was.
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[rickstandish]

They damn sure seeded the clouds over North Vietnam during the War.

[captainskippy]

Interesting story and very apropos to my situation. I live in South Carolina in one of the areas affected by the hurricane. Still without power, but not without hope. We have a small farm and thankfully have a generator. Groceries and fuel are thin.
God blessed my house and my family and we are all OK but the area I live in was damaged terribly. We would appreciate prayers, and especially prayers for all of the law enforcement, firefighters, utility workers, and EMS that are assisting. God bless you all too
UPDATE: power back in as of yesterday!! Thank you Jesus!

[sandrakelley-krieg]

So, what do you know about project Blue Nile between 1966 & 1972? Seeding hasn't ceased! We've come a long way since the 1900's.

[tygrkhat]

"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man"
--Blue Oyster Cult, "Godzilla"

[carolynklestinec]

If there were people in Dubai willing to go on record and say that they caused one of the worst floods there because of cloud seeding. I am hell pressed to believe that this mini documentary is accurate in dispersing of my belief that our American government would still do this but not admit it .

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false” - William Casey, CIA Director 1981

[andarchy]

I'd say what we've witnessed with Helene in the NC mountains coincidentally after the biggest most valuable quartz mine controversy I think they may have succeeded

[tinanoel]

I was born and raised in Tampa, still do. Milton blew my roof off. Most hurricanes look like they are heading right for us. Gives people a lot of anxiety and stress then it turns. But not the last, 2.. they got us good.

[atomenorse]

They need to get out there and help North Carolina.Our government is trash

[GroovyGrandpa]

As I'm watching this video the Eye Wall of Helene is passing over my house.

[bradojacko]

So, it almost certainly worked 70 years ago and they stopped talking about it...publicly.

[maryd]

"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." 😊

[vlmellody]

When I was a little girl, my father was stationed at Homestead AFB. My family and I were only there for less than 18 months, but we survived 2 hurricanes whose names were retired, Cleo and Betsy.

Betsy was far more deadly than meteorologists anticipated, and much of it was blamed on human interference.

[SuperFriday]

When you tell people this is possible, they call you crazy

[kittyprydekissme]

Project Stormfury was written into a couple of episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. The Government was planning to drop dry ice into Daisy's eye, and the Clampetts were under the impression that the Daisy in question was Granny.

[billblake]

You know whats sad to me? I survived hurricane andrew august 26th 1992....I was a landscaper and I was 27 years old the storm trounced power and water were gone for almost 2 weeks debris littered the streets trees were everywhere. The govt was busy clearing the highways and big streets...
the back streets were left to fend for themselves...the bossman gave us every saw he had and we went out in the streets and started our own 8 god damn days we went at it chopping
up trees it was 95 degrees and there was no we drank we sawed through the streets all of us were getting drunk on booze supplied by the a shot of tequila was
downed there was no beer anywhere the cubans all shared their hard liquor with us and i even remember a big old fat guy gave us a bottle of johnny walker night we all took a bath in a little lake in a destroyed housing would strut around the lake hooting and were beaten up but we were helped our neighborhood get back on its worked like dogs for were black white and talked about
did a good thing i am still proud as politics....just people working together....
Rest in peace america, rest in peace tito and brothers always.

[Dale-vo]

I saw a film clip from the 1960s showing LBJ making some speech holding his fist up and shaking it while saying, "Whoever controls the weather controls the world." It's been said since the 40s or 50s the military has been trying to control the weather. Supposedly, the project called HAARP, which is a group of antennas that send some type of radio frequency up into the upper atmosphere called the stratosphere and heats it up. Take this with a grain of salt, though. But supposedly, they can move a low pressure system so much. Who knows what the government does that we don't know about. 🤔

God bless all. Amen 🙏 ❤❤.

[marlenecardinahl]

I learned in the 60’s that they could seed clouds to make rain-