No kidding. We had ours wrapped in shirts and tarps and whatever we could get around them for 4 days in pretty strong winds. I think we saved a bit of it, but the paw paws are totally shot for the year and at best we will get maybe a dozen apples and plums.
The commercial guys are the ones that really took the hit.
You could see this one coming and nothing could be done. Most of the fruit crop guys in this state have no crop insurance so they are going down hard. The corn/bean guys didn't plant because insurance brokers wouldn't sell them coverage to start before a given date.
We are going to have brown oaks and hackberries this year. I'm hoping they will releaf. Not sure if they can though.
