The park was scheduled to open over the summer, but hurricane damage delayed the opening.

So hurricane damage appeared mostly in woodlots on top of ridges and in the sugar maple orchards that produced the springtime crop of maple syrup.

This type of forecast will be particularly useful for the insurance industry, which needs long-range estimates of potential hurricane damage.

As such, the estate has been subject to environmental and hurricane damage, the latter notably in 1926, 1992, and 2005.

Organic farms survive hurricane damage much better, retaining 20 to 40% more topsoil and smaller economic losses at highly significant levels than their neighbors.