UPDATE: Living in southern California we don't get much rain so it wasn't used much since my below review. However, it was about 9 months old and it is already dysfunctional. The umbrella won't lock and one of the metal ribs already tore away from the material. Not much of a "Gustbuster" with the very little use it has received. I should have written this actually when it first started having problems which was at the end of our rainy season last spring.

We needed this several times for a trip we took that included rain. It was so windy we saw people in front of us with inside out umbrella's or broken umbrella's laying on the side of the sidewalks. Ours held up 100% and kept us dry. My only negative is that the information on the web page made it sound like it had a large circumference. it doesn't. it will keep you dry but it's not really large enough for two people to walk comfortably under. Still, it's worth 5 stars for the $$.
UPDATE: Living in southern California we don't get much rain so it wasn't used much since my below review. However, it was about 9 months old and it is already dysfunctional. The umbrella won't lock and one of the metal ribs already tore away from the material. Not much of a "Gustbuster" with the very little use it has received. I should have written this actually when it first started having problems which was at the end of our rainy season last spring. We needed this several times for a trip we took that included rain. It was so windy we saw people in front of us with inside out umbrella's or broken umbrella's laying on the side of the sidewalks. Ours held up 100% and kept us dry. My only negative is that the information on the web page made it sound like it had a large circumference. it doesn't. it will keep you dry but it's not really large enough for two people to walk comfortably under. Still, it's worth 5 stars for the $$.