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When the West was settled it was widely believed that the act of building a town attracted rain. The 'atmosphere' of human buildings in an area would naturally
by flybrand 2mo ago
When the West was settled it was widely believed that the act of building a town attracted rain. The 'atmosphere' of human buildings in an area would naturally attract and collect rain from the heavens. Many of the original methods used to estimate water, rainfall, and other essentials for human survival were wrong.
Most of them are catalogued in the outstanding Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - an excellent book with an outstanding audiobook too.
https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised/dp/0140178244 https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing...
- hnav 2mo ago19th century Law of Attraction
- andai 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
- quickthrowman 2mo agoI’ve heard this idea referred to as “rain follows the plow”, which as they found out in the 19th century, does not hold true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow
- pseudohadamard 2mo agoMeh, everyone knows that if you need rain you call in the Wizard: https://wizard.gen.nz/adventures/the-rain-dance-kid/ https://wizard.gen.nz/adventures/the-rain-dance-kid/ Yes, New Zealand has an official Wizard: https://wizard.gen.nz/photo-galleries/official-documents/ https://wizard.gen.nz/photo-galleries/official-documents/
- slumberlust 2mo agoWasn't that the result of active misinformation by companies with vested interest in transporting everyone out West?
- cratermoon 2mo agoIn part, yes.