The return of Tulare Lake after this year’s major storms have flooded several fields that were planted with seasonal row crops, leaving farmers with questions about how they will recover from the major loss. Flooded California farm faces 'huge losses':
A PG&E crew travels by airboat to decommission power poles on Makram Hanna's flooded pistachio orchard. A breach of a nearby levee allowed water to flow from the surging Tulare Lake and flooded hundreds of acres.
The floodwaters cover hundreds of acres on the farm. Hanna fears that many of the trees will not survive. Tree crops, however, sustain more costly damage. And in recent years, landowners have planted more pistachio orchards around the Tulare Basin as well as other parts of the San Joaquin Valley. Some of those orchards turned out to be vulnerable when rivers swollen with runoff broke through levees and inundated farmlands.
The 68-year-old immigrated to the United States from Egypt in 1979, and he said overseeing the pistachio farm often reminds him of his childhood, when he worked during summers on his grandmother’s small cotton farm.Months ago, he would enjoy walking through the rows and inspecting the trees. But lately, he is intent on finding ways to limit the damage.
On a recent afternoon, Hanna was strategizing how to get a diesel motor working to pump water to irrigate dry areas of the farm and keep those trees alive.See the rebirth of California's 'phantom' Tulare Lake in striking before-and-after images Hanna said the farm has a liability insurance policy, but he doubts it will cover much, if any, of the flood damage."What do we need to do not to lose everything? Because right now, it seems like we are about to lose everything."“All my savings, all my inheritance, and all my brother and sister's inheritance, it's all right here,” Hanna said.As a young man, he studied molecular biology at Cal State Northridge, and later did odd jobs from construction to bussing tables.
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