Gale Force Grasshopper

One lucky grasshopper got to experience winds today in excess of those experienced in a hurricane. How can I know this? Because it was sitting on the windscreen wiper on my car while I was driving at ~90mph on the motorway, its little antennas flapping wildly in the wind. Strangley it didn't seem at all perturbed by this, and even had a bit of a wash. When the traffic all ground to a halt it waddled across the car onto the bonnet. When it got there, however, the traffic started moving again so it stayed where it was (on a perfectly smooth surface) and braced the wind. When I had to stop again because of the traffic it hopped off in the middle of the motorway where it probably got flattened.

A 90 mph wind is faster than the winds experienced in a hurricane. It's off the Beaufort wind scale, which only goes up to force 12 (which is 73-83 mph winds) so I would estimate that the grasshopper experienced winds of approximately "force 13" or "force 14", if there were such a thing. That's some serious wind to a creature that's only 1.5-2cm long, hanging onto a smooth surface. They have one hell of an impressive grip.