Hurricane Specific Wind Turbine

During a recent trip to Florida I was somewhat trapped in a bar while a short but robust storm blew through. Talking to some natives, the conversation inevitably ran toward "Oh, you think this is bad? you should have been here for Hurricane Penelope/Sandy/Andy... I forget, anyhow, we lost power as usual, and they were handing out rations of ice you see, because then you can keep a cooler...".

The consensus was that power goes out a lot in big storms, so what do we have to work with? Wind, lots of it. Conventional wind turbines are optimized for normal wind, 10-40mph or so. Such devices would be mangled by hurricane force winds gusting over 100mph. However, there are wind turbines built for relatively extreme speeds. An example is the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) fitted to most modern jet liners. Should an aircraft lose all power, the RAT pops out of the fuselage and uses airspeed to generate electricity and hydraulic pressure sufficient to provide basic control of the aircraft. These are optimized to the 100-400knot airspeed range.

Lets use that as inspiration for a high-speed wind turbine. So, the blades will be between a RAT <link> and a standard wind turbine to take advantage/stand up to hurricane force winds. This can then be mounted on an extremely robust pole. Here it will do essentially nothing for the majority of the time. Except, when the next hurricane arrives. Now, basking in ideal wind speeds, the turbine comes into it's own. The pole will have a nicely insulated power outlet (throw in a cubby hole with a few USB outlets while we're at it) mounted a few feet above the ground to mitigate any flooding effects. Even better, it should have a sealed extension cable that can then be run into the house so we can run a few select items, probably the refrigerator as a priority.