They make the blades north of Denver and you can see them being shipped by Train, massive and also light. No way could you practically make them to withstand that bit then again an oil rig is going to have issues.
We had a wind warning yesterday and looks like today as well, not a good time to be driving a semi with a empty trailer, I have seen those flip but we do get the attention. We have had an OK snow winter, nothing massive but last 2 years have been low, and it has not been that hot so far reducing the demand from the Front Range.
The UK had a wet winter, worst since 1948, die apparently to Global Warming which begs the question what happened in 1948.