I know the mindset. Back early when I was learning to paddle, I was with two coaches and another client, who happened to be a meteorologist. We're paddling out the inlet and there's this huge black cloud coming down behind us. I mentioned maybe we wanted to take out at some beach houses on the point. The weather guy says yes, that is a wall cloud, or shelf cloud, I can't recall. He let's on as how the wind is probably blowing 50 under it. The lead coach says no, it'll pass behind us, following the coast, let's go on out. Well we got on down by the point, the cloud is right on our tails, I said I'm getting out and getting under those houses, and headed for the rocks. They came on and followed. Ten minutes later we're standing under these houses watching the sea blown to a froth as Thor himself hurled bolt after bolt down all across the field we would have been paddling. Hairs standing up on the arms, squatting now under the houses standing on the balls of my feet on my sprayskirt. No one came down from the houses with any TP for us either.

Sometimes ya just gotta call it off. It was right pretty after the storm though.