Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Lately, I’ve been traveling to Boston and the heavy downpour of rain there combined with the driving wind with gusts up to 50 mph was just brutal. Much more than my usual Wal-Mart umbrella can handle. So I bought the Repel blizzard-proof and windproof umbrella. But this so-called “windproof” umbrella isn’t any more windproof than these cheap umbrellas. The spokes in the canopy collapsed and broke and was useless in the wind. It sucks! I don’t want be caught with a crappy umbrella in the next storm, so I decided to test this and other “windproof” umbrellas to find the umbrella that won’t fail when I need it. I can't afford to get drenched on my way to an important meeting, just because I believed the empty promises of an umbrella seller on Amazon. I am a huge fan of figuring things out myself, especially in weird & unusual ways so I rigged up a test of several windproof umbrellas behind my car. In my testing, the Repel umbrella failed at 41 MPH! I don’t think it is windproof because in my experience windproof should survive at 50 mph. Many cities I’ve been in have wind gusts at that level. I won’t trust these umbrellas. So I’m posting these videos in YouTube (search “umbrella review”) so you can see that there are many windproof umbrellas are ripoffs. These are just gimmicks to sell more umbrellas!