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Article: Umbrella-handling not always a breeze
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 4, 1996
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Chicago is No. 1 among symphonies and basketball teams.
And we may be first in something else.
What other city in the world turns its umbrellas inside-out at
the rate we do?
Chicagoans usually buy umbrellas that are cunningly engineered
to be small and unobtrusive or long and canelike.
Whatever.
The umbrella's purpose is always to protect you from the rain
and snow or whatever else is falling from the sky here.
When the precip starts, bumbershoots suddenly appear from
nowhere by the hundreds among Chicago pedestrians.
And the brollies mostly do their job nobly and even fashionably.
But as you stroll under your umbrellas, here come the world's
greatest gusts of wind.
Chicago gusts! ...