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Despite scientific rebuttals, the narrative persisted and even escalated with the involvement of public figures. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn and other fringe personalities amplified claims that the floods were artificially caused.
Within hours of the tragedy, political figures like Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed legislative measures to criminalize weather modification activities like cloud seeding, claiming they should be made a felony. Such statements fueled fears of a "deep state" or clandestine government programs controlling the weather for nefarious purposes.