One might expect the turbines of a wind farm to be heavily hit by the very winds they are designed to stand up in, but the initial reports in Texas have at least one farm surviving and back online faster than the power transmission system can handle.
In Big Test of Wind Farm Durability, Texas Facility Quickly Restarts After Harvey
For the first time in the history of the burgeoning U.S. wind industry, a wind farm got hit by a hurricane—and it was back producing power within days.
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That's impressive. Overspeed and overpressure events have played havoc with wind turbines in other incidents. The designers here were plenty prepared.
+John Bump Well, it helped that as it turned out the winds at the farm were "only" 90 mph / Cat 1. But, yeah, encouraging stuff.