Coconut Crop
May 16th, 2009
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The Shalampax coconut industry, consisting of one company, was devastated yesterday. A gale that blew through here carried off all of our coconuts, which were almost ripe. (A meteorological note: Although off the scale in terms of wind strength, the gale affected a circular area with a radius of only about 75 miles. The circle was perfectly centered on Shalampax. The surprising part is, that’s not a very rare occurrence.)
In the past, coconuts have typically contributed somewhat below one percent of Shalampax’s GDP. This year it will be zero.
