So he did what any other clever film production veteran would do: He drew water from a nearby fire hydrant through three rain heads attached to a 55-foot-tall boom arm and coupled it with a wind machine with 7-foot propellers and an airplane engine, used otherwise for hurricane testing.

"In some cases, it was a little too strong because it cleared all the debris that was supposed to be on the street," Scudner says with a laugh.

The violent storm was created in the streets of Reading for the recently released film "Night of the Sicario," helmed in part by a number of Lancaster County production companies, including Scudner's Triode Media Group.

The film was shot back-to-back in 2019 with another action thriller, "Locked In," which will follow "Night of the Sicario" onto the Paramount+ streaming service on May 7. The former was directed by Carlos V. Gutierrez and stars Mena Suvari, while the latter was directed by Joth Riggs and stars Natasha Henstridge.