It was a dark and stormy night. The sound of tornado sirens filled the air as more than seven inches of rain swamped the Milwaukee area at rush hour on July 22. The expressway flooded and was closed. A giant sinkhole swallowed an SUV on the east side as basements across the area filled with water. It was truly a “100-year flood” – but wasn’t it like the third one we’ve had already this decade?
And as I sat at my desk with the rain pounding on the roof, silently sending warm thoughts toward those who would be affected by the deluge, I took comfort in the thought that the awesome new SRAM site we’d been working so hard on had launched three days earlier – safe from the rising waters.
