When it Rains...!

We're in San Antonio, Texas taping an outdoor picnic scene with "papel picado" decorations and a piņata. I look up at the sky and see a huge dark cloud looming overhead. Suddenly the production manager yells - "Everybody into your cars," as we're besieged by a downpour that destroyed the set and pre-empted the balance of the shooting day.

On top of that one of the actors has to return home for final exams. The DP, location producer and I are huddled in the car brainstorming options. An hour later we have rescheduled the rain date, had a new taping plan in place so we salvaged the footage in the can, and we relocated to our next interior location to complete the day's work.