Sometimes Seattle earns its gloomy reputation. It was cold, dark, and wet on the February morning I arrived, and I needed a new umbrella.
This should have been a temporary inconvenience, at worst. Seattle—home base to Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Starbucks—is one of our nation’s most important commercial hubs, and one of its wealthiest cities. Surely there would be several drugstores downtown, eager to sell me new rain gear.
