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That's X-ray Alpha 3 Victor with the X-ray. For ID, so I think the biggest weather story of this past week as far as things that are directly impactful and killing people unfortunately, would have been the flooding that they've had in Pakistan and India. So it is the ongoing monsoon season there, and of course the monsoons every year happens, they trigger deadly and widespread flooding. And in Pakistan's Pudjem province on August 30th, they had about a half a million people that were evacuated, and 1.5 million people were directly affected by floodwaters. And the flooding has been exacerbated with India because what they had was they had the release of water from overflowing dams that crossed the border into Pakistan. And of course, as we all know, there's some political tension between the two countries, so the release of water going over the dam in India into Pakistan, resulting in downstream flooding doesn't help that, right? There's been some back and forth between the two countries, they're the ones saying you're doing it on purpose. But whatever the case is, there's a lot of rainfall, a lot of water, and statistically the rivers and the dams in particular just can't handle it, so they had to open up some of the spillways. And the Punjab Disaster Management Authority, they're calling it the biggest rescue operation in Punjab's history, and they're noting that for the first time, three major rivers, the Chenab, the Ravi, and the Sutlej, they've all overflowed simultaneously. And the floods have also been devastating to cultural and religious sites, with the Sikh sacred site of Dabbar Sahib Kartarpur becoming inundated. And in India, the heavy downpours associated with the monsoon season have caused landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, and they've killed at least 34 people and displaced over 200,000. Let me drop it.