Gale force winds save the economy

For many years gales have been measured using numbers, with Gale Force 10 being the strongest, and Gale Force 1 hardly worth a mention. Gale Force 1, so far as I can tell, is a breeze. Whilst we think of a force 10 as likely to take our roof off.
But has the "Force" scale gone out of fashion? We hardly hear of it on the weather forecast these days. Now we get Amber warnings, and if it gets really bad, I p[resume we will get a red warning. Which is all very nice, but the people with wind turbines will be very disappointed to get months and months of green warnings.
And even when the wind gets up really high, as it has done in the last few days around here, the little arrows on the weather map mean nothing to real people. 13 with a directional arrow? What is that about? Is it mph, kph or something else?
What I need is a windspeed indicator which warns, in no uncertain terms that my fence is about to fall over. A clear indicator that the solar panel is about to be blown off the summerhouse roof. And how this will affect my bank balance.
So, I am pleased to report I have the solution. It is rather localised I'm afraid, but in general terms the wind which blew through last Thursday rated £100 on the damage scale. That's on a DIY basis obviously. If I had a tradesman in to repair the damage it could easily have rated £300 to £400.
This compares favourably with the storm several years ago which rated at a DIY score of £300 and that was sharing the costs with the neighbour. Mind you, the shared fence very nearly took out his front room windows, so it could have been even higher.
The problem with this scale of course is that it can only be applied AFTER the event. Rather like the weather forecast, which spends the first five minutes telling us about the weather that has already happened. I know about the weather that happened, I was in it. Just warn us about the weather to come thanks. Specifically the local weather. the very local weather. The weather that will knock my fence down, block my driveway, burn me, make me wet, or freeze me.

I've just realized that I have turned into the archetypal Brit, talking about the weather because he has nothing else interesting to say. Well, to quote Stan Laurel - "A lot of weather we've been having lately."

Am I alone in thinking that wind is just part of life and to get on with fixing the damage it has caused? It's an act of God, or one of the Gods, that's for sure. But can I claim on my insurance for high winds? People claim for floods, and that is just weather, after all. Perhaps I'm missing out here. Wind certainly makes money for my local fencing supplier. It has probably kept his business going through the austerity measures. Maybe I should get on that gravy train too.