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Well, Jack and everyone, WW7KN, Ken here. Well, that is a perfect segue into this conversation. What is shaking? I guess the answer is what isn't shaking? Jack, we are experiencing very, very, very high winds here. Matter of fact, somewhere over there by Tri-Cities, they were getting 80 mile an hour wind gusts. had 40 to 60 mile an hour winds here. We are surrounded by trees. Several of them are over 80 feet tall. A couple of them are striking distance of the house. I'm watching these trees bend in ways I've never seen them bend. Even though the sun is shining momentarily, they even said we might have snow this morning, but I'm not sure how they're going to do that. It's well above freezing. But the wind is still howling. We postponed our trip to Spokane today to meet some friends for lunch because the entire drive from Newport from the home to Newport out on Highway 2 is all lined with trees. There was a gentleman that ran into a tree in I-90 today. Another gentleman unfortunately was killed in Coeur d'Alene when a tree fell in his house and went through and crushed him while he was sleeping. So Pam and I thought you know maybe we should stay home keep an eye on the house. I'd hate to leave and find out the house was And anyway, so we've decided to stay home because of the high winds. And we did lose power for an hour and a half today. It is back on. And the winds are just blowing. I'm watching these trees, Jack. They're incredible, the movement that a tree can have, but not when it's close to the house. So with that, that's all. We're hunkering down for the day. We'll make our travel plans for tomorrow. And back to you, Jack. So that's what's shaking here in Newport. WW7KN, Pam and Molly the dog, back to you Jack.