"Gary" writes:

[...] Finally caught a break with the gusts and set it down after
using most of the runway. [...] 90 degrees to 18.

So I guess I'm curious as to what some of you might have done under
the circumstances - would you have asked for 27? Even though it was
an adventure, I never felt I was not in control... [...]

I've encountered such scenarios several times. It's exciting, but the
state of relief after safely taxiing off is a signal that it was
perhaps exciting in the wrong way. In the long seconds of an very
iffy flare, one tends to forget cooler judgment, a proper balance of
risk & reward. One just wants to "make it work". And if it doesn't
work out? ... Well, one's too busy to think about that just then.

This is one reason why Jay & Jim's windy aztec-breaking landing was
disheartening to read of. With only a little more bad luck, it could
have ended much worse.

- FChE