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Alright, this is VHV-IKX. A quick question for you, in your opinion, about the hurricane era. I haven't been following too much, but what I just read, this is sort of a cursory read, that what was somewhat unusual about this, not entirely unusual, but it wasn't more unusual, how quickly it intensified, the strength of it intensified, but very, very quick. And is this something that's now turning into a pattern with these hurricanes? They're forming faster, intensifying faster, becoming stronger faster. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in... I'm not going to ask that, because it is one of the questions that's come up. So what we've seen in years gone by, in the... So, okay, so to put it in perspective, the biggest hurricanes on Earth, or tropical storms I should say, on Earth, occur in the Pacific Ocean. Typically in that sort of dead zone, around the Marshall Islands, or just outside of there. So often you'll have some major typhoons out there that don't hit anything. And in the past, we've seen these storms out there rapidly intensify from tropical disturbances into full out super typhoons near the top of the scale. However you want to measure that. And so we've seen that. That is far less common in the Atlantic basin, as far as we're concerned, right? So seeing these tropical storms intensify so rapidly, especially with these explosive intensifications, where they essentially go from, you know, let's say a borderline category 1 hurricane, right? So a tropical storm that's barely transitioned into a hurricane, into a top of the scale hurricane in 24 hours. Again, even in the Pacific, that wouldn't happen all the time, but it was a little more... I would say it was not unusual to see that out in the Pacific. But in the Atlantic basin, that is not common at all. Let me cycle it.