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Victor Alpha 3, Victor Whiskey, X-Ray 4ID. So, the first thing I was going to talk about with with some unique damage is the projectile effect and this is basically when you have a relatively light object that's being propelled with such a velocity that it's able to penetrate harder and denser materials and that's of course caused by the object being caught in the intense winds of the tornado. So straws and splinters and wood and metal. So that's sort of the most famous type of tornado oddity that you get And you'll have straws of grass or hay that are impaled into trees, utility poles, and fence poles. And the belief is that the object is sort of compressed and accelerated to a near-bullet-type speed, allowing it to penetrate the surface before breaking apart. You also get wooden splinters from things such as 2x4s that are driven deeply into stucco, concrete, or sheet metal. One document involved a piece of wood entailed into a concrete wall. And in 2003, a pencil was reportedly driven dead center into a computer monitor after an F4 tornado. And there's also been cases where circular saw blades, those have been found embedded in trees or walls. And those were obviously thrown like a Frisbee. You don't want to be in the way of that. And interestingly enough, in the 1974 Xenia, Ohio tornado, a piece of paper, it was a photo, was reportedly found stuck deep in a tree trunk. The paper itself wasn't torn, but the force of the impact drove it deep into the wood. Let me drop it. Beep