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Alright, and our Mexican friends, they've had some terrible terrible flooding during October. So what's happened is, basically, the flooding is unfurling as a sort of large scale natural disaster that's affecting primarily the Central and Gulf states of Mexico. And because of this, it's a real problem because of the rainfall and the landslides and the death tolls are getting quite high. So what happened is basically there was this convergence in an unlucky way of multiple different weather things. So the remnants, so we had the remnants of Hurricane Priscilla and Tropical Storm Raymond. And they occurred in the Northwest Pacific in early October. And the remnants of this converged with Tropical Disturbance 90E, which was basically a stationary moisture front in eastern Mexico. And as a result of that, this mess of rain essentially stalled. And there was a multi-day rainfall event where some places like Veracruz between October 6th and 9th, they saw 530 millimeters of rain. And that's over 21 inches of rainfall over the span of 4 days. And these areas, the soil isn't good for absorbing rain. The hillsides were saturated, so you had devastating flooding and landslides. Mainly in the Sierra Madre, Oriental, and the Huastec regions. But Veracruz, which is on the Gulf Coast, Hidalgo, and Puebla, they had the vast majority of the casualties. And the areas of San Luis Posti and Cuerterar, Cuerat Tarot, they were also severely affected. And so far there's at least 150 municipalities that are dealing with this flooding across 5 states. It's immense flooding, immense.