Back in the olden days, we used to joke about controlling the weather. In SuperOregon, the public relations guy for the Army chemical depot even agreed to record a commercial for my show asking me to stop accusing them of controlling the weather.

But we can’t do that anymore. After the flood in the Hill Country, we briefly came together to support our fellow man.

Approximately ten minutes later, though, others called out, “What if–and hear me out–what if we started arguing about politics again? And not just arguing about politics, arguing about whether the government controls the weather?!”

The headline of this article questions if cloud seeding played a role in the flood. You don’t have to click on it. The entire article could just read, “The answer, of course, is ‘no.'”

A UT-Austin professor even explained, as far-fetched as it might sound, a tropical storm and remnants of a separate hurricane colliding might cause it to be rainy.

But here at #ScaiaBlog, we focus on the positive. One of our themes is stealing other people’s ideas, so you might take a look back at a previous instance where I suggested we should look to the helpers.

I’ve been talking to some of the helpers this week. Josh Weathers helped by rocking out on Facebook.

He said he felt like the operator at a 1980s telethon, and no matter how much we argue about politics with strangers on the internet, in a crisis, Texans still help Texans.

We’re all doing what we can. He played a four hour show and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. I, as a reporter, told you about it. Now that I see it written out, I feel like I could have done more… bid on this belt buckle, for instance.

It would have been custom-made, and a buckle reading, “Big Scai Country,” would really, I think, help our fellow man.

He did say he hoped the auction would make the news, so my mission was accomplished after all.