After a wind scare, balloons fly in Macy’s Thanksgiving parade

New York • The beloved balloons flew, but lower than usual, in a windy Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade after an anxious weather watch.Wind had threatened to ground the giant inflated characters. But officials announced less than an hour before Thursday’s start time that the balloons could fly, if in a down-to-Earth way.As the parade continued — even while city emergency officials sent out a public alert about wind gusts — handlers struggled with some giant balloons an