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It was actually such a strong storm in Dominica. It actually caused, the devastation was incredible. There was like, I remember the pictures, a huge chunk of the island, there was just total defoliation of the entire island. Right, trees were stripped bare. It looked like they dropped all their leaves for winter or something. And the amount of damage, so they estimated that the storm destroyed housing and infrastructure that was with damages that were equivalent to 226% of the country's annual gross domestic product. So that's how much damage it did. You would basically need two and a quarter years of raw GDP for Dominica to make up the value that was lost with the storm. So that's how intense it was. And it did cause over 3,000 deaths across its path. And the vast majority, 2,975 occurred in Puerto Rico. Many of them were due to long-term health effects of the storm, such as lack of access to medical care, electricity, clean water, people in hospitals, things like that. Let me drop it.