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And just as a point of clarity here, a lot of people say, oh, you can have a really tornado. It's a, you know, you can say, oh, it looks like this type of a tornado. It looks like an EF-3 or an EF-4. But if that tornado just stays over a field where it's full of grass and dirt and it doesn't hit anything, while if we could measure the wind, the wind speed may line up and say, oh, yeah, it's an EF-3 or an EF-4. But if there's nothing in there to actually get hit, so there's no damage indicators that are coming back, then it'll receive a low rating, right, whatever grass getting shredded will give it, which is probably an EF-1 at most. That's what you'll get stuck with. So you'll have a big violent tornado, but it'll only be given an EF-1 rating because it didn't really cause any damage, right, nothing we could quantify. So that happens every now and then. So for an EF-5 to occur, it sadly, the tornado sadly needs to destroy things, right. We need things that can provide us with the evidence that it was truly an EF-5. So what happened here is there was a fully loaded grain hopper car at a nearby train track. And what happened was these rail cars were actually tossed. And the empty rail cars, to give you an idea, weighed about 72,000 pounds. And some of the cars that were either empty or partially full, so they weighed more, they were thrown some significant distances, with one car in particular being thrown 475 feet. That's about 145 meters from the track. Let me drop it.
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