Rainmaker

In 1915, San Diego was dying of thirst. Desperate city officials hired Charles Hatfield, a sewing machine salesman who claimed he could summon rain using a secret chemical brew aimed at the sky. They offered him $10,000 if he could fill the Morena Reservoir. Hatfield built his towers, burned his chemicals, and waited. And then, the rain started. And it didn't stop. In January 1916, the skies ope...