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Yeah, good greetings from the future. The call sign is Zulu Lima 4 Sierra Yankee. Zulu 4 is Y and there's a wee shout out to Missy and getting up in front of a class there teaching people. My wife is actually a high school teacher and the first time you do it is the most scary thing you'll ever do in your life. Once you do it a couple of times, it is a fantastic thing to actually pass your knowledge on to other people and more people will get out there and actually get up in front of people and actually pass on your knowledge. Hash off to you there Missy. It's a fantastic thing to actually get out there and actually do something and it's fantastic. Anyway, as far as myself, we're just recovering from a major storm here. I don't think, the regulars aren't in yet but it's one of the biggest windstorms we've ever had down in the South Island here. We were about, I think we recorded 163km an hour which is about 101 in the imperial system that you guys use miles per hour or whatever. It was continuous for about an hour and a half. It was trees, buildings, roofs flying off and all that. But as far as we're concerned, no injuries. We had, I'm in the fire brigade, I'm a station officer here in the local fire brigade. We had 11 calls in a row. By the way, that's the station record for how many calls we had in one day. We've had less than 11 calls in a year before. So let's tell you how small a community we are. We've just got about 250 people in the community here. This is a major event and no injuries. I'm currently portable here at the moment. I'm down in a little town called McLennan. The reason I'm here is they still have a bit of Wi-Fi internet. No power, nothing. I'm running a digital generator and might hear the noise in the background here. But in my area, within about 150 miles, this is the only area that still has Wi-Fi internet. So I just headed down here just to get communications. This is the first time I've actually used HF Windlink in Angkor to actually communicate. My wife's house actually went off to, we got two properties, a bit inland and now on the coast. I was out on the coast at the time and that's where we got totally knocked out. I just sent a message, because I knew inland they still had internet and all that. So I used Windlink to actually send an email to my wife saying that all was fine, I'm so safe. I've been partnering with various exercises and that used Windlink. But this is the first time I actually had to use it in Angkor to help my wife know that I'm safe, because we had no internet, no cell phone, no power, nothing. But yeah, it was pretty cool. But yeah, practice using emergency communications, because sometimes you might need it. Anyway, enough of my waffling, I'll pass it back to Nate. Hello 4SY, my name is Norm, November Oscar Rodeo Mike.