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26. Public hearing statements from Joe Busto that the CWCB is trying to get more funding to put <br />more rain gauges out and more weather stations out. We need to get more measurements in order <br />to do the analysis. <br />27. Public hearing statements from Kirk Randall. It going to take a long time to get to the trends but it <br />in the meantime it may be killing us. We have a drought going on but If the hail cannons are <br />causing the problem we are all going to be broke by the time we figure it out. We have a drought <br />going on but we think its splitting the clouds and we flat don't get any rain anymore. The storms <br />are splitting this spring and going around Center and it's a phenomenon that is different than it <br />has been but is getting worse. <br />28. Public hearing statements from Pam Randall it is known that rain clouds pass over a desert <br />because the rain is drawn to vegetation and the less vegetation we have in our grasslands the less <br />chance we have of anything come our way. In Rocky Mountain News there was an article about <br />these cannons. If we aren't sure that they work then why is one industry being protected by our <br />government and another one left to suffer. <br />29. Public hearing statements from Faye Hamilton noticed that precipitation is decreasing to the point <br />of being critical if we continue you on for another five years we could lose everything. It is not <br />just our area it's the whole country. I think it is time the little people get some help. <br />30. Public hearing statement from Mike Jones we operated forty five minutes in one day out of 93 <br />days. There were no clouds. There was no need to run the cannons because the weather pattern is <br />far larger than us. The drought is here and it shows our hail cannons had little to do with it. <br />31. Public hearing statement Peggy Godfrey on the east side of the Sangre De Cristos that when the <br />Closed Basin Project is pumping that weather has been changing and the amount of vegetation <br />has decreased. The weather modification due to the reduction of plant life on the east side of the <br />valley has affected the precipitation. The east and south parts of the valley are affecting by less <br />vegetation. Things could be modifying weather below the ground instead of above the aground. <br />32. Public hearing statement Christine Gydesen commented that the budget is $34,000 but that they <br />didn't run. You must think it works if you are going to shoot the cannon one time. Mike Jones <br />stated that there are fixed expenses. Mike stated that his point was that they respond to the <br />weather that exists or alter the weather before it happens. <br />33. Public hearing statement from Joe Busto worked hard to make sure that the SCF operational <br />periods are briefer. <br />34. Public hearing statement from Amy Kunugi. It seems like every year there is a different path and <br />last year it seemed like storms were passing south of 160. The one really bad hail event in 2007 <br />and there is nothing we can do with widespread hail event. That storm came and plowed a whole <br />swath through our crops. There are storms we know we are having no effect. When it is raining <br />and its coming towards us. We do seem to see we get rain and not hail stones. We are trying to <br />get it to fall as liquid and not a solid. There is bacteria that ice nucleates on and we want to fall as <br />a rain drop not as a hail stone. You can't get crop insurance on lettuce. <br />35. Public hearing statement: Thad Eglert stated that more rain gauges would be helpful to get to the <br />statistical significance or trends in hail cannon usage. <br />G <br />