The Verge's disaster writer addresses the conspiracy theories linking flash floods to cloud seeding. Cloud seeding, a technique used to encourage precipitation, involves injecting substances like silver iodide or salt into clouds to create heavier ice particles that fall as rain or snow. While researchers use radar and satellite imagery to target specific clouds, the practice has become a target for misinformation. The article emphasizes that attributing flash floods solely to cloud seeding is an oversimplification and ignores other contributing factors.