I also think, that storms are too heavy.

I tried to hide my rover behind rocks, under overhanging rocks, nothing helped to prevent damage. It looked like the storm was blowing through the solid rocks, because the first things that broke, was the left middle wheel at my small rover, even it was near the rocky wall and there was no direct exposition to dust, sand and so on.

If there's no way to shield yourself from this storm damage I don't really see what it would add to the gameplay regardless of how realistic it is, other than a major annoyance and frustration.

Especially when you don't seem to get any weather forecasts until you have launched your vehicle...

Maybe a lens cap that can be lowered at the cost of being basically blinded out of that camera? A thought.

Helps only to the camera lenses, the winds actually break parts off of the rover.

I've lost several parts due to storms, including a robotic arm on a large rover(could only do photo, eas and rad after that).

The wind damage is really extreme considering that the density of mars atmosphere at sea level is .5% that of earth, or like being at about 70km altitude.  Both Spirit and Opportunity went through dust storms exceeding 80km/h with no damage except lower power output from the solar cells due to dust settling on them.