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So the latest numbers that I could find is that there's at least 72 people that have been confirmed dead. 75 people are still missing so obviously the death toll sadly is expected to rise. A lot of communities are still isolated because the landslides wiped out communication and whatnot and there's been of course huge damage to infrastructure with roads you know with roads being destroyed by rivers and and other things. Right now the Mexican government believes that about a thousand kilometers of roads and bridges have been lost and there's about 190 rural communities which have no communication service whatsoever. They've been completely cut off and the property damage estimates I've been seeing around a hundred thousand homes have been damaged or destroyed and at least 320,000 customers don't have power so it's huge. So it's been really bad and there's been other problems too right compounding issues so in cities like Poza Rica which is a major oil hub the flooding created a secondary issue where you had water mixed with these oil deposits and that was creating a disaster with with cleanup. There's just complicating things and of course that also pose significant public health risks right because you're contaminating the entire water system and and even now landslides are still a possibility because of slope instability there's been a lot of instability introduced to a number of the hillside there so it's a big problem that's what's been going on there and I unfortunately I didn't see too too much of this in the news but it's a big issue for this part of Mexico.