road again and shuffle fresh goods. johnny mcmillan tells me he's ready for the worst case scenario. what's going to happen to all this fresh produce? >> well, we've only got two choices. we either can give away to farmers for cattle feed so at least we make some use of it. the second thing we'll do is we'll take it back to our farms and compost it so they can use it in the future. >> reporter: also a victim, top quality kenyan roses. fresh cut flowers from farms like these are flown to europe every day. the long wait is killing them. >> for us as a company alone, we currently are looking at a backlog of around 2 million stems across our four farms and here in nairobi. >> reporter: industry insiders at nairobi's main airport say kenya is losing more than 3 million export dollars a day because of this crisis. while lucy waits, she prays for iceland's volcanic ash clouds to creep away and the skies to open to save her and the more than 1.5 million kenyans that depend on this industry.