Rain ???

[grassfarmer]

Cakadu are you serious that they seed clouds at Caroline?? Why - to stop Red Deer getting hailed out? I thought there was a great misconception about cloud seeding and that in fact it was only used occasionally to protect Calgary.
We got 3/4 inch of rain on Friday - if only the weather forcast had been accurate I could have been spreading 46 instead of 34 on Friday! Oh well better safe than sorry.

[cakadu]

We hear the plane out seeding during a storm all the time Grassfarmer. It actually happens about 10 miles west of here around the Raven area. How much good it does is anyone's guess. It would be interesting to see the results of cloud seeding because there are times when we still get hit hard and others when we can watch it go around us - follows the lake - and then we hear of bad weather east of us.

I recall hearing that they did a study that showed that there is an area around Sylvan Lake and south and then east towards Red Deer that ranks right up there with the most lightning strikes in North America.

The insurance companies are THE driver behind cloud seeding.

[cakadu]

Linda, I did think that Tim's were doing their bit to deter folks from throwing coffee containers in the ditch by their Roll up the Rim campaign,until I won a darn muffin and found out that you only need to take in the little tab to win, the rest can be tossed wherever the individual feels like it !!!

[cakadu]

Again, I apologize for adding to my own post but anyone driving the Parkland Highway just west of Edmonton may have seen the new landfill. There is garbage piled up against the fences all along both sides of the highway and dump trucks lined up turning into the site all day long.
It is a holy mess, and an eyesore. Have to drive in past there early in the AM and I bet that even if the highways were cleaned yesterday there will be piles of stuff lying around that location again.