First You Get the Weather, Then You Get the Power
The state of Texas wants to control the weather. That isn’t a set up to a joke or some kind of clever metaphorical jape referring to the state’s never ending battle against political corruption or their need to make everything as big as the sky. If it were, I wouldn’t be writing for this place.
The Texas Agricultural Code literally includes a grant program for finding a way to control the weather.
It’s origins and beginnings don’t make it sound as Lex Luthorish as you might think. According to a Senate Committee report, the program hopes to find a way “to lessen the impact of periodic, severe droughts through the use of cloud-seeding technologies.” In other words, the state of Texas wants to make the clouds their bitch.
In fact, they have already found nine possible ways to create rain including dropping “silver iodide” from an airplane into the clouds. Don’t say that’s where “every cloud has a silver lining” comes from because if that were true, we wouldn’t have to drop them from planes.