Thunderstorm

There are hundreds of ways to predict the weather. I know them all, despite how my former colleagues might want to paint me. I am not as crazy as you might want me to be.
I know how the numbers and the atoms work. Electrons, floating through the air, . The rain cycle. Yes, I have always been familiar with the science, as were my contemporaries before the tap began to run dry.
You don't need to be a scientist to understand the miracle that is rain. You can detect some of the signs yourself without any scientific equipment. The gathering of clouds, an earthy smell, or an ache in your bones.
That smell, petrichor, used to bring such delight to me, but now it only brings me fear in the deepest pit of my heart. Every time it rains, it's there in my head.
My son, the Cloudbuster.
Just as the lightning strikes, I hold the thing close.
PLOT SYNOPSIS:
this here guy created the cloudbuster, a machine that summoned rain, to save his dying planet. unfortunately, the storms ravaged the planet
==Trivia==
*This story was inspired by another one of my scrapped Fanon Con writing contest entries. In the prior version, the story centered around a group of kids trying to combat the devilish Jeremiah Joseph Plumm, an Old-Western-style land tycoon who halted the rains. The kids created a rain machine (somewhat like the Cloudbuster in concept), though it didn't work. Once someone's body was offered to the rain machine, though, the machine began to vomit red rain across the dry prairie plains.
*The story is very obviously inspired by the story of Cloudbusting, a Kate Bush song that itself takes inspiration from the real-life biography of Peter Reich. Reich's father was an eccentric psychologist who believed there was some sort of mystical energy that permeated the air, and could be harnessed to create orgasms or, alternatively, rain. He created a giant cannon that he believed would start thunderstorms and was subsequently investigated by the US government. You can still visit his laboratory today, up in Orgonon, Maine.