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<br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. SCHLEUSENER: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />1.0,,/ <br /> <br />of the winds or anything like that. If you <br />could stick up bang boards maybe you could <br />do some good but I think you are going to <br />stick your neck out and have just as many <br />people mad at you as there are happy about <br />it. It would only be an educated guess as <br />to whether you were really going to have <br />a good hail storm, whether you had done <br />any good, or anything. The way of proving <br />results out of something like that would <br />be quite a guess ~n my opinion." <br /> <br />''Would you like to answer that, Mr. <br />Schleusener?" <br /> <br />"I'ts been said, and I agree 100%, <br />that when Colorado receives a normal amount <br />of precipitation it is highly abnormal. The <br />normal is simply defined as the sum of all <br />the observations divided by the number of <br />years. As you pointed out this is highly <br />variable over all of the State. This is <br />typical of precipitation. <br /> <br />As to whether or not something signi- <br />ficant can be obtained out of this, I think <br />we might look at this picture here to get <br />an idea of what we are up against. So what <br />you point out is a very real problem and it <br />is very true that this is difficult to come <br />up with a statement that 'would not be a <br />matter of controversy to different people. <br />For instance, if I would come up at the end <br />of this study, and say that hail has been' <br />suppressed 10%, I'm sure that I would have <br />a lot of disbelievers in those individuals <br />who had suffered complete hail damage in the <br />target area. I'm sure that is the case. <br /> <br />But to go back to the ideas involved <br />and what is proposed here, it amounts to <br />this. Depending upon the amount of preci- <br />pitation we received in 1959, this will fall <br />someplace, it might be high as shown here, <br />it might be low, on the range of precipita- <br />tion that has been received in past records, <br />or if this falls high enough, or low enough, <br />then the chances are relatively minor that <br />this was due to the seeding. If this gets <br />to be high enough - you can visualize this <br />thing as the total amount of area, maybe <br />the total amount of area here is 100 square <br />