MickJoeBill,
further to your comments about evacuation slides being blown around and rendered useless thereby, a similar issue came to my attention with the Korean Air incident at Haneda back on May 27th.
(see
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...-2708-hnd.html)
If (as I believe is recommended in an engine fire scenario) the aircraft is positioned with the wind blowing the fire and smoke away from the fuselage, rather than towards it, this might create a problem with the slides on the 'safe' side.
I don't know if there is an answer to this problem.