l know how it is to be flooded :/ , back in 2008 when we were living down Devon we had a wet spell and it flooded up to an inch on the whole bottom floor, we lost pretty much everything that was lower than that and to add insult to injury our employer at the time (who we rented the house from) told us to leave not long after for claiming on the insurance :/ the next employer wasnt much better either but thats a whole different story lol.
as for the wind, going by recent updates hopefully it shouldnt be as bad as Birtha was.
with regards to the topic, lve just noticed that an error relating to "\Driver\WUDFRd" hasnt been showing up when l use my thumb drive now that lve been using rear ports rather than the front panel (lve connected it a few times but l cant seem to find the error in the event viewer, it always used to show up when connecting) and lve been through most of the information/error logs.