They're not as bad the last couple of years as they have been but we've lost hundreds of pines on our property to them. They do really well in dry periods because the trees get stressed by the drought and can't produce enough sap to protect themselves. Lord knows we've had no shortage of water THIS year! We've actually had trees just fall over, roots and all, because the ground was so wet.
That's what worries me when it is pouring out here for days and they predict high winds like they have. Especially because many of the trees in the yard are Hemlocks, which don't often get much bigger than ours before they rot out and fall over anyway.
I love them for their shade, but they scare me in the high winds that we get a couple times a winter... livin' here in a cardboard house and all.