I like that quote! I could have used it today!
There is wind, and there is crazy stupid wind. Today I rode in crazy stupid wind. Sustained at 35, gusting up to 50.
In all fairness, I didn't really choose to just do 30 miles in it. I had a group of cross-country cyclists staying with me, and after their presentation at my school I rode them out of the city on the safest streets. I wanted to ride with them for a bit and to live vicariously through them even if for only 15 miles.
The ride back home was directly into the wind- and it was awful. I was truthfully almost blown over once- and ran into the curb (luckily no cars were around).