NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: They Want Him Dead. Augustus Doricko Just Wants to Make It Rain. @ADoricko’s cloud-seeding company @RainmakerCorp has been tasked with a monumental endeavor: replenishing the Great Salt Lake. Per this exclusive scoop from @dodgeblake, between November 2025 and April 2026, Rainmaker will use drones to make snow in the border region between Utah and Idaho, which will melt and run off into the Bear River, the famously depleted lake’s main source. The startup is aiming to produce 30,000 to 56,000 acre-feet of snowfall in one year within the Bear River Basin. The lower end of the range would meet about 27% of Salt Lake City’s water needs; the higher end would equal production of the country’s biggest desalination plant, at about 18 billion gallons per year. It’s possibly the most important cloud-seeding deal in the country’s history. But it comes at a time precarious time for Augustus, who is currently facing death threats for being falsely accused of playing a role in the devastating floods that hit Central Texas last week — and, in general, viral conspiratorial thinking about the nature of weather modification. In this deep dive from @dodgeblake, she provides exclusive details across months of reporting about Rainmaker’s evolution from a tiny startup (feat. employees living full-time in a cold, drone-producing warehouse) to a substantial business, where tech challenges are the least of its concern. Link threaded 👇