Carmen Bossenbrock with hail stones that she kept in her freezer after the storm. In late summer, Carmen Bossenbrock would normally be sitting on her porch proudly watching her d’Anjou pear crop grow and ripen. But this season, there wasn’t a single piece of fruit on the trees to admire. Her seven-and-a-half-acre orchard at Dryden, Washington, includes a dozen trees that her grandfather planted in 1909, some of which can produce a full ton of pears each. In a good year, as harvest approaches, it takes eleven props to hold up just one leader on one of the trees. But […]