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XR came out with some great satellite imagery, so did a few other agencies, public agencies and what not that had, what's the word I'm looking for, not geostationary but polar orbiting stats or satellites that pass over the area several times a day. So they were able to get some good imagery comparing it before and after. One of the things you notice is that the island goes from a nice lush green color to this shade of a muddy brown after, and again this is where the eye wall would have impacted and the strongest winds. And the reason it's brown is due to defoliation for the trees, right? What's basically happening is the leaves are being ripped off by the wind and the rain and perhaps debris flying through the air. And this has a significant impact in particular on bird populations that are endemic to the Caribbean Islands, or endemic in this case particularly to Jamaica, because they're the most vulnerable during a hurricane.