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So on Sunday, July 13th, after Montreal got slammed with a slow-moving thunderstorm that flooded them out, there was a huge hailstorm that impacted Calgary, or Calgari, as some people say. Basically, the storm formed near White Forest, Alberta, just before 6, and it crossed Highway 22 at about 710 in the afternoon, and it got to Calgari's northwest at about 740, and it blew through the city and it exited through Chestermere by about 818, if you guys know where any of those places are, not that it matters. And they had hailstones initially that were about 20 mm, 2 cm in diameter, that's about 0.8 inches, and the storms quickly increased in size to almost 2 inches, so they were 2 and east of golf ball. And they beat up the city pretty badly, it's been a little bit of a while since the city, I don't recall the last, I think it's probably been about 3 or 4 years since the city had hailstones that big, although I might be wrong, but it was significant because it did a lot of damage to the city for what it's worth. Again, Calgari's a pretty big metropolitan city, so they were getting 2-inch hailstones throughout the city, and they had some strong winds, peak winds at the airport got up to 93 km an hour, that's 58 miles an hour, and that blew the hail and exacerbated things.