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sometimes be expected to occur with hygroscopic seeding,' and also a more complete disappearanc~ of the cloud. The following page is a newspaper clipping about the September 4 storm. This clipping does not constitute a meteorological evaluation, but helps to evaluate the interaction of the project with the community and the news media. It is from the DAILY OKLAHOMAN, September 5. ....Ra!ns Drenth ',. . :. A'I~U' r . . t.ft "",~",~rJ~ All lJ I hhlJt5b I , - . Cloud-seeding aircraft . and a storm front appar- ently combined lorces over southwestern Oklahoma Saturday afternoon to pro- duce heavy rains that un- officially totaled 7.8 inches at Hobart and 3 inches at. parched Altus. Stan' Brown, Bureau of Reclamation meteorolo- gist at Norman, said three cloud-seeding air era f t treated an area along the Foss Reservoir' to Sayre and then worked over Jackson, Kiowa and Wash- ita counties. At Altus, where the rain- making project had been strongly supported earlier this year, nearly ~,~ of the . . town was without electri- cal power after the storm struck. The weather station at Altus Air Force Base re- ported 5 inches of rain fell there in two hours and the . rain gauge had floated away. The Hobart flight serv- ice station four miles from Hobart received 5 inches of rain, nearly 4 inches of it in an hour, during a Sat-. urday afternoon storm. At Granite, where 3,15 Continued on Pa/{e 2, Col. a Rt1~ns ~rench .~UUS, Hoharf Continued From Page Oll~ inches of rain fell in two hours, Mrs. Molly Weeks said planes were flying aTound the clouds just be. lore the rain lell. "The planes had some- thing s t rea ni i n g from them," Mrs. Weeks said. "A little later it started to rain." "I could shoot the Altus mayor if I could find him," she added. "Poplar trees that stood here for 75 years weTe snapped oft at the ground during the storm. " U,S. 283 which runs north and south through Altus was under water in. both directions lrom Altus. at the height of the storm, as was U,S. 62 west of AI- tu~. Altus Mayor Hoyt Shad- id said about 50 cars were r e pOT t e d stalled seven miles south of Altus on U.S. 283 due to the high water. 32 There was also 4 to 6 inches of water over U.S. 283 at Blair during a heavy rainstorm there, the high- way patrol said. A tornado watch was in . effect for Craig, Delaware, Now a t a, Ottawa and Washington counties in Northrnstern Oklahoma Saturday afternoon. At' Burbank, in Osage . County, a wind blew down trees, broke tree limb',; and blew down sheds and ga- rages, but no injuries were reported. The National Weather Service reported 1,20 inches of rain fell in Burbank during the storm. . Other communities near Burbank that l' e c e i v e d heavy rain were Foraker. where 2,68 inches fell; Pawhuska, which recorded 2,55 inche's and Hardy, where 1,89 inches of rain . fell, Newkirk had a different problem, Police there re- ported lightning accompa- nied a light rain Saturday afternoon and set off- sev,: ('ral small grass fires, none of which were seri- ous..