San Diego’s winter weather makes it difficult to throw an outdoor event.

I know what you are thinking, “It rains so little in San Diego that an overflowing toilet can cause flash floods.” And that’s exactly the problem.

Issues float to the surface in one form (sorry for the extended, and perhaps, off-color metaphor): we get rain so rarely that when we do, life can’t function as normal.

Let me give you an example. Recently at Seaport Village’s holiday event, we needed 26 tons of sand delivered. And then it rained. We, of course, still wanted and needed the sand, but the sand yard called to say they canceled our order. Why? Because it’s what they usually do and it can still be delivered on Monday. It took a full day’s convincing for their dispatcher to realize that our sand sculptor really can use wet sand.

After all, he’s just going to wet it down with the hose anyway.

Lucky for my client, time flushed away (sorry, I can’t help it) the rain and cloudy skies in time for a beautiful event. Even more lucky for my client’s tenants because if it had rained, regardless of our “rain or shine” policy, no one would have come.

It’s just the reality of a city that gets so little rain we forget what it is in between downpours…umm, I mean, sprinkles.