Wind is one wild event in the high country. I've been on many climbing trips where the wind literally could knock you over. There isn't too much you can do as mentioned in the previous posts. Mountaineering tents are better designed to deal with it, but their weight sucks. I've blown up one set of trekking poles in my Kiva when the wind came up and blew us down, and I've bent poles in my climbing tent on Rainer with sustained 70 mph plus winds for 40 hours. That was with a snow wall, and guyed out lines with snow stakes everywhere! I sat inside and had one foot up bracing a pole! Idaho's Lost River Range is notorious for wind, you can hear it coming like a freight train. Usually you have to hunker down, maybe even foregoing a tent/tarp, and wait it out, or find some real shelter to hide behind. Daisy is right, bivy bags work better. We hid out in a couple of those on Hood when others were being blown off the mountain. Not really fun, but oh well...
I think I might just roll up in my tarp instead of pitching it!