Disaster befell the 1991 "Umbrellas" project, which opened
simultaneously in Japan and California and consisted of thousands of
large umbrellas (yellow in California and blue in Japan) dotting the
landscape. In California, a spectator was crushed to death when a freak
windstorm uprooted an umbrella. While the project was being taken down
in Japan, a worker was electrocuted when his crane touched a power
line.