Umbrellas: We Can Do Better

As I walked in the rain last night through the streets of NYC, I realized that umbrellas (apparently) are the best that solution to rain that humanity has come up with to this point. And yet somehow the lower half of my body was soaked; my umbrella had turned inside out in the wind; and at one point, I got hit in the head by my own umbrella shaft. Really? The umbrella is the culmination of our rain prevention efforts? I have faith in my fellow man - we can do better.