Sunchaser, below is a link where I used to live in North Vancouver, bc. I lived in an area called Deep Cove. The Cove is quite well protected as it is in a fjord called Indian Arm. And wind behaves like water and follows whatever nooks and crannies in its way. So wind down and up Indian Arm follows that route. The Cove being inset usually is spared much of a wind storm.
But a number of decades ago, the boats you see directly on your left at a marina belong to the Deep Cove Yacht Club, suffered from a very nasty wind storm and the jetties collapsed and the boats were in a heap. The results were that in a rebuild the jetties were constructed and anchored to a higher standard.
This is a link to the Deep Cove location, its a live feed so just look during the day, it will be dark at night. An additional boring detail. The public jetty you see to the left was the location for the movie shoot "Double Jeopardy." If you are familiar with the movie, it opens with married couple on boat, husband disappears over the side presumed drowned, she arrives back at the jetty (the one in the link) and is arrested. Latter in the movie there is a scene where cars for some reason, can't remember fall off a ferry, suppose to be in Washington state, but that scene was filmed at that distant marina to your left.
[hit the link in the video that says to watch it on Youtube, it will work]
Here's wind damage at Sewell's marina during a snow/wind storm. I talked about the Squamish winds above in a post above, well this is the results of one of the Squamish wind storms. Boring peace of trivia, I had gone to the boat show in Vancouver and was going to buy firefly batteries at the show on the Sunday, the last day. But the news came on of problems that were going to develop so I raced to the Horseshoe Bay ferry to get back home. The ferry had just left when this damage occurred and was the last ferry of the day, all the rest cancelled.
Look at the video in this news piece: [My Catalina 27 was and is moored at Sewell's but was further down in the marina and escaped damage]
Windstorm wreaks havoc at Horseshoe Bay | Watch News Videos Online