Stormy weather, California-style

As follow-on to yesterday’s thoughts on the effects of bad weather on our lives, I give you an example of how the innovative, disruptive thought-leaders of the Valley They Call Silicon bravely adjust to the vicissitudes of Mother Nature.

I’m a member of a couple of meetups that get you out in some of the local parks or on the trails. It makes a nice change from the gym or networking events. One of them, the Cupertino Walking Club, is fairly leisurely (as opposed to one or two others, whose idea of an “easy hike” is a pace in excess of four miles per hour climbing a considerable elevation. In the dark). The CWC aims to cover all the parks in the city, and then move on to those in other towns.

We were supposed to take on one of them this morning, but there was the possibility of rain forecast, which prompted a whole lot of hand flapping amongst the five people who’d signed up for the event. (“Oh, gosh—I’ve got my fingers crossed that it doesn’t rain!”)

So much so that at 2000 last night the organizer sent out this notice:

Yes—a mild walk of less than a mile in a city park was cancelled because it might rain.

Evidently all of these hard-charging high-flyers who are boldly shifting paradigms with their superpowers for the benighted masses will freaking melt if a few raindrops fall on them.

In the event—there were indeed a few clouds in the skies this morning. But not a hint of precipitation.