Maybe a picture will help:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o</a><p>Or maybe:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=U3zMXJTbIrs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=U3zMXJTbIrs</a><p>Note that these machines are designed to the best of our present day abilities and that&#x27;s <i>nowhere</i> near hurricane force winds. In the one case a brake was overrun, in the second the amount of power generated was enough to ignite the alternator.<p>If storm is indicated for a region then you design your machines to be able to <i>survive</i> the storm, not to generate power during the storm. That&#x27;s simply a function of how frequently it storms and how much power you can expect to generate extra if you were to design for the storm (hint: not much).<p>&gt; But the distribution isn&#x27;t uniform if you look at occurrence of where it happens on earth, some places are more likely to form storm systems vs others.<p>Yes, but still not frequently enough to design for it other than in &#x27;survival&#x27; or &#x27;shutdown&#x27; mode. And keep your fingers crossed that that is enough or you&#x27;ll end up like those two above (or worse...).<p>If all this really interests you you should check out fieldlines, it&#x27;s an interesting forum, there is a ton of wind knowledge there, I used to be a pretty active member.<p>greetings &amp; thanks for the exchange.