What a typhoon does to a harvest
Wind strips the cherries, rain splits them, and the road decides the rest.
In the trees
A direct hit in September or October can take most of the crop before it is picked; a near miss mostly costs the flowers for the following year.
Either way the effect is delayed: what a farm loses this season often shows up as a thin harvest twelve months later.
The harvest is not lost in the wind. It is lost in the week after.
After the wind
Roads fail before farms do. A landslide on County Road 18 can strand a harvest that survived perfectly well.
This is why farmers talk about the road as much as the weather: both determine whether a crop becomes a bag.
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