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All right Frank, this is GAF5 Echo Charlie Echo. I can tell you our worst rainstorm was two years ago, 23 we were staying at a winery. May of 23 we were staying at a winery in Nebraska. It was a great winery, drank lots of wine, thank goodness. But that night two times came to Nebraska and we had to just hang on for dear life for overnight. We were parked in the perimeter of the parking lot. We weren't close to the building. So it was always going to be if I can, I'm going to park as close as I can to the main structure. The winery was not close to the residence. They left earlier so we were all by ourselves. We just shook ourselves to death. And two tornadoes came through, I think one came through at 11 and one came through at 2 o'clock in the morning. And my wife said, what are we going to do? And I said, I guess we're just going to die together, honey. But we got out in the morning and the wind and the rain and the mud had basically, I have an orange, it was outside in the morning. It was brown. It was totally caked with mud and rain and everything else like that from being outside during the storm and everything else like that. I was able to pull it in before we went to bed at night. So it was underneath the trailer but it was still caked with mud because of all the wind that was picking up everything that was around. So I learned my lesson there. Anytime I can get close to a building when I'm at Hartman's Toast, I'm going to be there just in case a tornado wants to come through during the night. Back to you, sir. OK, Tom. Well, we've been a couple of times when we've been staying in Alabama, tornadoes have come through. We're there at the best of all time of the year. We get down there in November for Thanksgiving. And it's not unusual to have tornadoes coming through here in the fall. But anyway, we've had a couple of them come through down there. And one of them was within a couple of miles of us. It really came close. And we actually were staying in the coach for that one. Another one came through one time. We were at our daughter's house and we just came there until it was gone. None of those ever bothered anything. That never did hurt us at all. We were up in South Dakota, right alongside of the river up there. And we had high winds come through. It wasn't a tornado, but it was a severe storm. It had winds north of us up to 90 miles an hour and east of us up to 50 miles an hour. And that actually winds my Eagle I antenna. It was kicking up 35 feet in the air. And when I got up in the morning and looked out, it was laying on the ground. The top half of it was laying on the ground, I should say. So it just snapped right off at the mount. The top was laying on the ground. And the bottom was still attached to the mast, of course. I did a home-brew patch on that. I got some PVC pipe and wrapped around it and taped it up where it's OK. The problem is that I tried to collapse it. It telescopes and it got caught up in the PVC pipe. It was hard to get it to collapse. So I wound up getting another one, getting a replacement for it. That's the only damage I've ever had from a storm. So that was some really good winds that came through there. All right. So we'll see anybody else added on here. Do we have anybody else that wants to check in? Please call K4HM.