in philadelphia a few weeks ago the wind diverted me onto a sidewalk... thankfully it was a wide swath of driveway i.e. i was not blown into a curb and off of my bike, but gracefully swept onto an incline (curb cut) and the sidewalk that followed it... if it had been anything else, a curb, a trolley track, i would certainly have sustained some kind of injury.

be careful folks and watch those wind warnings on weather websites.