FLASH FLOODS IN Texas last week that killed more than 100 people have been blamed, without evidence, on intentional weather manipulation.
State authorities said that dozens of people were killed in the disaster, including campers and councillors who died when floods hit a Christian summer camp.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said this week that dozens more people are unaccounted for, and he warned that another bout of heavy rain could cause even more dangerous flooding in the region.
Authorities have faced questions about whether enough warnings were issued in an area that has long been vulnerable to flooding, and whether enough preparations were made.
However, among accusations of unpreparedness, a familiar and more sinister claim has resurfaced: that the storms that caused the floods were purposely created using weather-manipulation technology.
“Texas extreme floods were not natural,” one such claim shared on Facebook by an Irish user from 6 July reads.
The post includes an image of a bureaucratic form from The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a US agency responsible for predicting the weather as well as for some environmental regulation.
The same image of a form also appeared in American posts that claimed this was proof that the floods were caused by weather manipulation, viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook.
The form appears to show a company called Rainmaker Technology outlining a “rain enhancement” and “hail suppression” project.
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