Extreme Wind!! It really is extreme!

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We have a wind advisory all day here in MI and it's been pretty bad. Going to and from the stores we found we had to hold on to our doors so they didn't blow open and hit another car, and hold on to our purchases so they didn't blow away. Well tonight it seemed no one had their garbage out. I thought it was because of the holiday season, but I checked our city website and it said trash collection is normal tonight so we put ours out with a ton of boxes. Well... I went out there about an hour later and all the boxes were gone! Nowhere to be seen. The bags were starting to move too b/c of the wind so I tied them all together for leverage. I saw some other people put their garbage out finally, but things are blowing over all over the place. To make a long story short, what are you supposed to do when the weather is bad and you have garbage? I feel bad that my boxes are now blown wherever (god knows where, I couldn't even see any all the way down the street when I looked!). We just didn't even think about this when we were putting it out. My garbage is still staying in front of my house since I tied it, but I fear they will blow down the street too. I can't keep all that garbage in my house over the holidays b/c I have people coming. What I'm thinking is, every city needs to adopt those large wheeled garbage cans. My mom's city has them and you just fill it up, whell it out, and it stays put even in the wind. The truck can then lift and dump it. What do you think and what would you do? Still put your garbage out or no? Perhaps we should have waited until morning but who wants to be outside doing garbage tasks at 7:30 in the AM on a cold day?