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Yeah, KI7, PKL from GW8, SNL, Willamette, Wet River. I will remember that. I used to always say it, you know, as how most people would. They just pronounce the words as they actually look. Yeah, it's the drainage basin, Columbia River. Catchment consists of 54 square miles of mostly urban land occupied by 180,000 people as of 2012. I wonder, you know, why would they build, you know, houses, how many houses and, you know, etc., in that unknown area that would flood. You know, 180,000 people as of 2012. There must be a lot, I don't know, probably a lot of people trying to move out of there. Hopefully with a job, I would have thought they would have trouble trying to sell their property there. there as well there, Roy. But yes, it's 40 kilometers long, the Willamette River. Yeah, very interesting, but I, you know, as I said, I just actually played a video in the background without the sound up, of course, and it looked absolutely horrid. And some of our rivers sort of, you know, do get bad, and they do flood a lot, but, You know, it's not many, not normally many houses that are close to the, you know, the actual bank of the rivers to get, you know, that kind of problem. But if it gets too high and it kind of floods, then it goes further in, you know, further away from the river, like it has done the last couple of times here now with the heavy rain, because the ground is just saturated. There's nowhere for it to run off or anything. It has affected some small towns and villages as well, totally flooded them out, but that is rare. I don't think that's happened for about 20-odd years, maybe a little bit longer there Roy, but I certainly wouldn't want to live there either in the Johnson Creek, but I bet when the sun is shining, it's absolutely a beautiful place, so you've got to trade one thing or another, I suppose. Just like hurricanes in the sunshine in Florida. KI7PKL from GW8SZL.