Due to the recent violently stormy weather in the Bay Area, local businesses and farmers are suffering the effects throughout the week. With less foot traffic and sales, the weekly Farmers Market and local businesses are experiencing the storms’ aftereffects firsthand.

“It’s been a hard time, almost 3 weeks now that it’s been really bad. We’ve been closing early because nobody’s out and it changes a lot of our business. When it rains, it affects everything,” said Isabel Guerra, a local business employee at Cafe on Main.

Factors that tie in with local business such as products are also getting lost in the weather. This equates to less supply on shelves for consumers, as well as fewer customers for businesses themselves. 

“Right now, all the produce prices are going up, and it hurts the local restaurants. For example, there’s been an egg shortage lately. A case of eggs used to be $35 to $40, but now it’s $105,” said Guerra.

Other agriculturally-based businesses that converge at the Pleasanton Farmers Market each Saturday have been caught in the rainy dilemma. As the rain continued to pour, it became increasingly difficult to hold up a vendor’s stand.

“Some of the Farmers’ Markets cancel out and become closed completely, so we are not open which totally affects us and our overall ability to succeed,” said a Farmers Market seller Mrs. Halog.

When the Farmer’s Market shuts down, it becomes increasingly difficult for vendors to sell their products before they expire. Halog said the crop-growing and retrieving process is much more difficult and tedious when the farmland floods.

‘Some of the areas are entirely flooded, and my husband has to go out and pump out the water. In terms of the crops, we can still save them by going to the field and cutting and picking them, but it makes it a lot more difficult,” said Halog.

Farmers and other vendors need the rain, but all say that the rain has turned into “too much of a good thing” going on right now.