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So, the insurance companies realize it's a real phenomenon, but for them it's easier to not see it, if that makes sense. I'm sure there are some insurance brokers listening. But hey, you see this too with lake effect snow, whether it's from the Great Lakes, or ocean effect, or the inner lakes, like the lakes of Manitoba, wherever. Anywhere where you get some form of lake effect snowfall, you'll have a similar phenomenon. It's a little bit more broad, but if the winds don't really move and they're steady for the duration of the lake effect event, or ocean effect event, somebody's going to get a foot of snow, somebody right on the edge is going to get a trace to nothing, right? And with thunderstorms, that's even more extreme. And you see this with hail, with hail swaths. You can see them very clearly on satellite. Somebody's crop will be just absolutely pounded into the dirt and the two farmers, the two neighboring farms, you know, they might get some small hailstones but they're generally okay. And that happens. You'll have hailstones that are, you know, golf balls or bigger. I've seen it where you'll have grapefruit-sized hail in a very local small area, let's say within a kilometer, half a mile, something like that. and anybody outside of that zone, they'll get rain and stuff, but they just they won't get this major hail. In the extreme case with rainfall, where you get somebody simply not getting rainfall and somebody getting rainfall, in places like Alberta, the mountains, they actually form a genesis point thunderstorms. So there's a few different hills and mountains there that often act as Genesis points for storms. So when they trigger these storms and if the wind flows or they're not the wind isn't the same every day But generally let's say if it's out of the west or the north or whatever way it is The storm is going to go in a certain direction and is generally going to affect You know, you know one of three communities to the east or to the north or wherever But your poor farmer in the south he'll see these storms passing by and he won't get a drip of rain out of them so you know his neighbors several kilometers to the north they're okay they've been getting enough rain that that everything they have is growing and their cattle are doing fine whereas this poor guy you know he's trying to suck whatever out of the local streams he can but otherwise he's not getting any rain so yeah it's interesting when you look at it on that type of a scale