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November zero Bravo Foxtrot. This is Kilo Juliet 5 India, Romeo Quebec. I added that one flawlessly. Look at that. That's cause Steve has smaller list letters. So I'm not very smart so I can do four letters. Man you put in that fifth one and I'm screwed. Man that is, that's cool. I figured you would have seen some weather. You've had an exciting time with the black. I'm going to probably, I guess tell my story and then we'll move to Bill. Excuse me. Believe it or not. Of course down here in Texas we've experienced tornadoes. We experienced, I forget what they called it a few years ago when they had ice magen or whatever. Whenever our power grid fell, I experienced that of course. We were fortunate. We had a wood stove in that house. That was before we sold that house. We had a wood stove and I had lots and lots of wood because at that time I was very big into smoking meat. So we failed just fine. We all just lived in my living room. I had a generator. We didn't do too bad honestly. My family. My neighbors, they did a little worse. We moved them into our house for a couple of days and they didn't do too bad either. But that's near the worst that I've personally experienced. The worst storm that I personally, this probably didn't affect as many people as a tornado. I've been in two hurricanes. I've been in some pretty cool weather stuff. The wildfire, the grass fire that we had here a couple of days ago. We've had a few of those. But the worst storm I ever experienced, it happened in 2003. I deployed to Kuwait February 14th of 2003 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. We went to Kuwait for our build up. We go there and start getting ready for whatever's going to happen. About a week into it, maybe a week and a half, we go out to the actual desert. At the time, we were at basically an airfield far before the operating base in Kuwait. They were real close to Kuwait City. So we were not out in the desert for the most part during that time. But we did go out to the desert and we did training out there. During that training, the weather person in charge let our COs know that we had a really bad sandstorm coming in. A very bad one. I'm going to take a real quick break. There was not enough time to get us loaded back up and get us back to the fog or anything else. So the decision was made is we're going to rat it out. So we were told to take our weapons, get into our bivvy cover, which is a Gore-Tex covering that goes over our sleep system. The one thing the United States military has is a bad ass sleep system. But the outside covering of that is a Gore-Tex covering. Waterproof, rim-proof, it's really good. So we were told to put our work sacks up, lean up against the work sacks, getting up as high as you can, get into your bivvy cover, with your weapons, and any kind of sensitive items. We had night vision goggles. There's a lot of very controlled sensitive items in the military. I'm sure some of you all know. Those things, no matter what, you have to account for it. It doesn't matter if you get blown up. Those things have to be accounted for by somebody. And so all those things had to go inside the bivvy cover with you. And we were told to rat it out, and so we did. And the next morning when it was all said and done, I had sand up to my chest. Like, my body was buried in sand drifts. It was frightening. I'm not even going to lie. That was one of the scariest nights I've ever spent in my life. In fact, I would say that was scarier in the moment than anything that happened in Iraq. I was in some pretty heavy things in Iraq. I really, really was worried about the sandstorm. I mean, it was awful. Okay, well, there's my worst one. Moving down to bills, November 9, OFU. I'm going to pass it to you. And if you don't mind, take a little time explaining. I really need to answer something for work, and it's going to take me about two minutes to do it. KJ5-ROKU, sending it to November 9, OFU.