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So that's what happened in Alaska. This did make the news in North America and a few other places. As far as I'm aware I do see it on the news locally here. So yeah that was an interesting one. And part of the attribution, what so there was there was some back and forth over what happened and you know why the storm wasn't forecasted to be the way it was. And there's been other storms. Hurricane Juan hit Eastern Canada. It hit Nova Scotia in particular, Halifax really hard back in the early 2000s. And this storm that was about a Category 2 equivalent and a lot of people out there said well we weren't expecting that because usually a hurricane in Atlantic Canada is very different than a hurricane you know in the tropics or in Florida wherever. And that's because the dynamics change for the system. And sometimes when you have these large tropical systems quickly transitioning into extra tropical systems. So more akin to what you'd get with a nor'easter mid-latitude cyclone etc. When they transition you can sometimes have a pocket of really really strong wind surging north on one side as everything gets rebalanced. And that's what essentially looks like happened with the remnants of Typhoon Halong. That was very difficult to forecast. Some people are also blaming the US military because there were a couple weather satellites that forecasters no longer granted access to for their meteorological data. But as far as I could tell I mean the models handle it fairly well. I just think it's a case of in my personal opinion I think people were expecting a bad storm but they weren't expecting it to be as bad as it was simply because the forecast called for a very bad storm. And I don't think people necessarily read into the forecast as deeply as they should have. You know they weren't as concerned. We've seen storms like this before so that may have been a complicating factor but that's not written in stone. That's just my take on the situation from what I've read. Anyway let me drop it.