U.S. Moving Ahead With Floating Wind Generator In Gulf Of Maine

Floating things catch storms, too.

With the CAD available to structural designers these days, they can reliably harden the product by design against any reasonable adverse operating conditions. The reasonable part is where the ever present judgment calls come in.

Giant oil rigs get smashed in storms, and they aren't designed to catch the wind.

Anthroopgenic global warming means that the worst storms are more energetic than they used to be. Some oil rigs do get damaged by unexpectedly powerful storms, but they don't get "smashed". They may be evacuated if the damage is bad enough, but they get repaired afterwards.

That's a common misperception these days. The industry and government regulators aren't exactly doing nothing about it. They know how to make this infrastructure withstand the worst nature can throw at it, and they're taking measures to improve the situation. Of course that's going to increase the cost of extraction but it's cheap compared to the economic damage done by the resulting shortages from the shutdowns. some industry propaganda, but more or less factual:

WOW- thanks for the research! I'll definitely keep it in mind next time I set about designing a floating wind generator farm...

Hey Bozo Bill, where is your data to back that up?

Why bother telling you? You wouldn't understand it, and you certainly wouldn't pay any attention to it. You could - of course - read newspapers as opposed to being brainwashed by Fox News, but you still wouldn't understand what you were reading.