Pine Island Cranberry Co.

[dogg57]

WASHINGTON — It’s safe to say that Mother Nature has not been kind lately to the Pine Island Cranberry Co.
In July last year, a storm produced a so-called “microburst” of straight-line winds that wrecked havoc on the historic cranberry farm, destroying a maintenance shop and several equipment sheds and damaging nearly a dozen vehicles.
About a month later, Hurricane Irene hit, soaking the farm with close to 9 inches of rain that brought the farm’s network of bogs and streams to a near breaking point.
That breaking point arrived just over a year later this week, when the remnants of Hurricane Isaac rolled through the region and dumped upward of 18 inches of rain across parts of the farm’s roughly 14,000 acres.
“We got our butts kicked,” said the farm’s owner, William Haines, about the storm system.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/loc...cle_49351502-0ff8-5d21-82b5-4e6daa828b07.html

 

[Teegate]

They have suffered quite a bit recently.

http://www.picranberry.com/memoriam-sylvia-burgos/

Guy

 

[dragoncjo]

For whatever reason during a bad thunderstorm that is a real bad spot to be in. The winds whip through there and the side canals always seem to flood out. On more than one occassion I've been out there during a storm and it gets a bit nasty in that section of 563. I remember that storm last year, uprooted lots of trees.

So they really got 18 inches of rain? sound absurd...

 

[Gibby]

I captured this storm last year over Haines' bogs. The gust front and a roll cloud can be seen in the right side of the photograph. It was a very short but violent storm. This was in July, but isn't the microburst that caused the heavy damage.

 

[dragoncjo]

Cool photo Robert. I was out that way today, couldn't believe how wet things were. Most of the ponds/pools where bone dry out there and are now fully topped off. Felt like I was in a tropical rainforest all day, incredibly humid.