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Well, why don't you pick it up and tell us about Sonoma Geddon or whatever you would like to talk about. You read the post that I put in the group chat, eh? We've had two really, really, really bad storms. Hurricane Igor back in 2010 devastated the east coast of Newfoundland, washed out roads, cut off 120 some odd communities, there was houses washed into the ocean, winds at over 170 kilometers an hour sustained for a couple of days, roads were washed out everywhere including this community where I live. It was completely cut off for like 10 days. No one in, no one out because it just was not possible. It dumped, I can't remember how much rain, man, I just recently looked it up too, but it was a lot of rain. Vehicles were getting stalled in the streets because they were getting completely flooded. There was cars abandoned everywhere and it was crazy. Now the worst snowstorm we've ever had I think was worse than Hurricane Igor and this was Sonoma Geddon back in 2020. And during Sonoma Geddon we got approximately four feet of snowfall in 36 hours. The city was in complete blackness for like five days in the death of winter where winds yet again reached 170 kilometers an hour plus. Up here in this neighborhood they went closer to 200 kilometers an hour because we're on top of a big hill. Snow drifts were upwards of 19 feet high. Now I'm not kidding you here, 19 feet. A little bit more than that actually. Six meters, up to six meters high. Some of you guys that were around back then will probably remember the tunnel I dug through the snow where there was like 15 to 20 foot snow drifts on each side. Streets were literally impassable. Vehicle traffic, we declared a state of emergency. Vehicle traffic was absolutely prohibited from city streets. It was an absolute shite show here in 2020, in January of 2020. So this was like at the height of winter. And nobody had power. Everybody was freezing to death. Well no one froze to death but you know people were very very cold. You couldn't get out nowhere to get supplies. There was no getting gas. The power was out. All the stations were shut down. It was absolutely horrendous. The only way to travel around the city was by skis or snow machines. You know snowmobiles, skidoos, that type of thing. There was literally no other way to get around. I mean there was four feet of flat snow that fell. And with the winds the way they were there was literally snow drifts in the streets.