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All right. Hi, everybody. It is Wednesday, August 6th, 2024. Um, we are recording this *** few days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the infamous August 10th, 2020 Dera show. So if you do see this beforehand, yes, we know it's not the anniversary yet. We, we, we know on the calendar, we're recording this early to make sure that we can align schedules and things like that. Um, obviously if you're watching this, you probably know this is the biggest, you know, severe weather event in in years in Iowa by, you know, it's intensity, the number of people affected, um, the number of people who are also caught unawares in some cases as well. So here to discuss it with me, my name is Zane Satry. You guys probably know if you're clicking on this video, is Jason Sudeiko. Who is the chief meteorologist here at ����vlog as well, and he's going to talk to us too because he was here working that day. Um, I was not, I was on vacation. We'll talk about that as well. We're gonna talk about, we're gonna walk through what happened. We're going to talk about what Jason obviously remembers from that day and the days afterwards, what went wrong *** little bit with the forecast. We'll touch on that. Um, how unusual this particular Duraio was and also some of the maybe ripple effects and things that have happened afterwards and then 5 years since as *** result of these storms. OK, so, Jason, let's set the stage. So you were working weekends, the same job I have now at the time. Uh, so you worked that weekend. Let's start off with what you were saying the day before, let's say Sunday, cause the August 10th, 2020 was *** Monday. What was Sunday like? Well, we figured there could be storms, you know, the, the following day. Did, did, did we think that it was gonna be this intense, epic historic line that's gonna make its way through? I don't think that was on anybody's radar, not to the extent that it, that it was. Um, but we figured there were gonna be storms, um, you know, there were, there was *** threat there, I would even say *** conditional threat there. And uh we just Figured that it would be uh storms like any other day. And that's going into, you know, to the forecast, you know, we look at any number of things and not *** lot of it pointed to *** very high-end day. Um, so we thought moving forward into that day, sure, we could see some storms, but to the extent that we saw them, I think was *** little bit of *** surprise to *** lot of people. Right, yeah, just for, you know, kind of, um. Concision. We have the storm Prediction Center outlooks from the weekend before, so this is the day 3 outlook. Obviously every forecaster is *** little bit different. You're going to maybe talk about different things, but most people are familiar with SPC outlooks like this. They see them on TV or online, on social media all the time. So this is the early morning update from Saturday, so 2 days before. Here's the one from Sunday, the day before. Uh, that's *** level 1 out of 5 risk, and it's across southeast Iowa, so nothing wild there. So Jason does the 10 on Sunday night, and then here's the outlook shortly afterwards. So this is, this would be, yeah, about 12:30 in the morning on Monday. We have *** slight risk, level two wild stuff uh across far southern Iowa. Nothing more major than that. And then let's, let's actually get the, the radar loop up here. OK, so that's, let's let it loop again, cause that's obviously the actual Diraio happening. There's the early morning hours, there's some thunderstorms that form in in southern Minnes or southern uh South Dakota. And then those obviously lasted *** little bit longer than anything showed showed and they should have. And then all of *** sudden they plowed across the state of Iowa and uh we had *** whole thing happen. So for the blow by blow, we'll go through some of these these warnings here so. Um, yeah, you have some thunderstorms that form in South Dakota. They're what we call elevated overnight. They're rooted several 1000 ft up in some warm air aloft and as overnight thunderstorms often are. And then overnight thunderstorms, as Jason knows, are sometimes *** little bit hard to predict, you know, how long they're going to last. Very often they die in the morning hours. If they do last *** little bit too long and all of *** sudden now the atmosphere starts to recharge and heat back up, well then. That's *** little, *** little bit, oh yeah, *** little bit. There's some other stuff too, but that's *** little bit of what happened here. Um, so, That morning, were you going to work on Monday morning or Monday during the day or not? Yeah, I was doing the show. I was, I was off. And, uh, yeah, like I remember I was gonna come in early, um, just, just to be safe, you know. So I got in early and I remember when I got in, Eric Hansen was sitting at the weather desk. And I was like, what are you, what are you doing sitting at the weather desk? And he's like exactly. He's like, well, there's this line of storms that are coming in and I'm watching them and Um, and, and I was, I started looking at it too, and all of *** sudden we get an 80 mile per hour wind gust report. And I'm like, uh, to me, like I, I took it with *** little bit of *** grain of salt because I just didn't expect that at that point. Um, even though, you know, we had stronger storms, *** little bit west of us. Um, and then, man, it just, everything ramped up so quickly after that. Like we, I think that report was maybe out of Creston, and it wasn't long after that that we, that Curtis came in and we were on the wall for about 4 hours. I was gonna say I was looking back through some of the warnings from that day, so The timeline goes here. The first severe thunderstorm warning that's in, you know, our market, our part of the world, is in Crawford and Sack counties that comes out at 8:53. OK, so that's when it's, you know, now southeast of Sioux City, and it's *** very basic warning, right? 60 mile per hour wind gusts, quarter size hail. It's *** fast moving storm motion though of east at 55 MPH. So you think, OK, well, that's kind of Something, but nothing crazy. And the following few warnings are all like 60 to 70 mile per hour tagged, meaning that's what they mentioned in them and like, you know, we've done this and people get those warnings all the time and you know, they don't really think very much of them. So I, yeah, the first severe thunderstorm watch comes out at 8:55 for central Iowa and then at 10:02 is the first one I was looking back through storm reports. 10:02 is the first time we see an actual like. Actual gust, uh, from the Carroll Airport, which between Carroll and Glidden of 74 MPH. And then after, after that, you mentioned there's an 80 mile per hour port. Yeah, there's really not that many reports though. I mean, it's the morning when things roll through in the morning, like people are getting ready for work. You've got people leaving for work. It's just When you get them in the afternoon and the evening, everybody's home and people are seeing things as opposed to just being people being got, you know. So for us to, I mean, you just You typically don't get those as often. Yeah, because I looked through and like we get more of those 80 mph ports they come in from like personal weather stations from Jefferson and Grimes, but those are actually all after the fact, from what I looked at. So really through the middle of the day, we really don't get *** lot of confirmation that there is like what eventually gets confirmed as like 100+ mile per hour winds, even in this part of the state. Um, so let's go to, let's, let's just for fun, let's pull it up. Here's Jason Sudeiko. Oh, I look 20 era. I look so young, about 10:20 or 10:28 as you can see in the morning. Let's sample them. It's turned out not to be that high. It's crazy though, like, there were some reports, there were some radar readings where, you know, it was picking up 130, 140 mile per hour winds. And I remember multiple times on air saying, our radar tends to run *** little hot. This is far from the radar, the beam's *** little higher. We don't know if this is actual ground truth. And there was one that I, I remember doing *** reading of, and it was 143 MPH. I just said on there, there's no way. And then we got *** confirm report of 142 mile per hour wind gust, which is just, I mean, that's insane. So this, this, at this point, right, you don't really know the magnitude of everything because like you just said, yeah, radar data, it's show, it's deriving those based off of the radar itself. They're usually at least, I mean, this far away, probably *** few 1000 ft off the ground. So you assume it's probably not going all the way, that's not translating all the way to the ground. Um, so the first actual destructive level warning, you know, which in that means 80 mile an hour winds possible, doesn't come out until 11:19, so this is almost 50 minutes after the clip you just watched, and that is as this line of storms is now coming through about the I-35 corridor or so, um, and then. This is now the Weather Service office in Des Moines finally starts putting, I should say finally, I mean they don't know either, right? They have, there's ***, yeah, there's *** lot of reports of like trees down, but in all honesty, we get *** lot of those reports all the time. Trees blow down in Not always the strongest of winds. So finally they're able to feel confident enough to issue *** destructive warning and this is for now like basically from the Des Moines metro area and eastward through Tama, Paik, Mahasky Counties and so this is for 80 mile an hour. winds. The storms now are moving at 70 MPH, and they put in the war, these are very dangerous storms, and they may be *** little addition in here. Good on them. This is an extremely dangerous situation with tornado-like wind speeds expected. So, you know, and I think *** lot of people like, I mean you get people that, you know. We're Iowans. We understand, you know, tornadoes are damaging, but there's still *** lot of people that don't think of just straight winds as that impactful. So those warnings come out, and I don't think they're always heated, but man, if this ever taught anybody *** lesson, it's, you listen to those warnings cause it's line of storms like this. Man, the damage this did was incredible across almost the whole state. And we'll talk about that. But yeah, and and at this point too, actually the southern end of that line that goes through southern or I should say south of the actual storms, um, end up having severe wind gusts too. They end up having to issue warnings across southern like Highway 34, Highway 2, just from the gust front blowing out to the southern end. Yeah, so finally the storm Prediction Center issues *** PDS watch, particularly dangerous situation watch for eastern portions of Iowa. That happens at 11:25 and then finally, we all know what happens the worst of the damage happens in the Cedar Rapids, north of Iowa City, and that so on. They get their first warning at 11:48 in the morning. And that is when the storms are still about 2 or 3 counties to the west. So by then we finally know, oh this is pretty serious, and that's *** destructive level warning too, 80 mile per hour winds, and then things really start to pick up here. We finally start to get actual confirmed like really high-end reports at 11:43, 1 of the DOT Rwis stations, so like the little roadside stations along Highway 30 near Marshalltown, records *** 91 mile per hour wind gust. less than 10 minutes later, the Marshalltown Airport reports on 99 mile per hour wind gusts. And so then at that point, the Weather Service issues something that's quite rare, which is *** severe thunderstorm warning mentioning the potential for 90 mile an hour winds, which by then they've got confirmed, but like very rarely do you see *** warning that's issued for 90 mile an hour winds. The only time in my career that I've seen that. Like, I honestly can't think of another time that I would have seen that. I was trying to look it up. It hasn't happened for, yeah, *** long, long, long time, or at least since they put, you know, actual numbers in in warnings. So at this point, 11:52. Now this is for um Paik Marshall, Marion County, Tama County, you know, the storms are moving eastward now. These are very dangerous storms and they put in the warning, you are in *** life-threatening situation. So now things are escalating, um. And it's about 12:30 when those actual storms get to Cedar Rapids, and we know it gets really, really ugly at at that point. I was just, I was actually when I was looking at reports from here, have you ever heard this one before? So the Atkins Fire Department, Atkins, Iowa is in Benton County, it's west of Cedar Rapids. Uh, someone from the fire department or EMT or something like that measured *** 110 mile per hour wind gusts from my handheld anometer. Oh my God, no. So they were standing out there in it? I don't know. I'd never seen that before now when I was looking up for this video. Somebody was Standing outside. I mean I appreciate them getting the report, but oh my God, I hope they were safe. How they read it? I don't I don't know holding their handheld. I mean, I have one of those too. I don't know, yeah, I mean, and there was ***. There's another one we'll talk about too. So anyway, yeah, this line of storms gets to Cedar Rapids and it does absolutely, you know, horrific damage, and the Weather Service basically continues warning this all the way over to the Mississippi River with, you know, mentioning 90 mph winds potential on these storms. So, Let's talk about the actual scale of the damage here. Um, we've got *** few different, you know, ways to look at this. We can talk about the magnitude of the winds, the actual strength themselves, the duration of the winds, which was highly unusual. Um, I mean, let's just Look at, you know, I don't have *** ton of pictures, but like this picture is from the damage survey, the weather service over in the Quad Cities did of the *** radio tower northeast of Marion. I think they rated this damage as like 120 or 130 mile per hour winds it would have taken to do that. Um, I saw *** picture from, actually, I think it was from Ames, of like *** lawn chair, like *** little deck patio furniture in someone's siding on the side of their house. That's that's some crazy debris right into the siding, yeah. But I guess this is stuff that we typically see with, you know, stronger tornadoes around these parts, not just *** line of storms. So to see even that radio tower down because of this is incredible. That's just incredible. It's not something that's normal. And then the part that really gets wild is obviously all the damage that was done to um To, to, you know, especially the infrastructure that was supposed to keep like the power on, you know, there are *** lot of people who over in eastern Iowa who went without power for 11 to 2 weeks. This image is from NASA. Some people have probably seen this before. If you look at, it's *** map of Iowa at night, and it shows you how the lights are gone, especially in that basically Highway 30 corridor from Ames-ish eastward towards. Cedar Rapids in Iowa City. So there's the day after you see Cedar Rapids kind of vanishes, and then it slowly reappears over, yeah, over the next several days. I mean, there's the day of, there's the day after. There's this dark patch across uh, across that whole eastern central part of the state. I think all told, at one point, I think like *** third of Iowa did not have power. Um, afterwards, people couldn't communicate. I mean, that's part of the reason, you know, we didn't necessarily know, get all these reports or, you know, what happened. Yes, you couldn't be relayed. Um, I saw there was *** gust, wind gust at the Iowa City Airport of over 80 MPH, but it was recovered afterwards from the data like it couldn't in real time be relayed because obviously there were power issues and communication issues and and all those sorts of things. Obviously, the crop damage is another thing as well. Um, it's like *** bull across the state. Yeah, yeah, because I remember when I got back, we, I was on vacation out in the mountains. I was in the Cascades that morning. I had just left Crater Lake in Oregon, beautiful place, by the way. Um, yeah, we, we, we had been without service. So we get out of the park and we have service and I, I happened to look at my phone and then I don't remember why I looked at the radar, but I did. Um, and there was this, you know, obviously potent little complex of storms heading through western Iowa at that point. Yeah, cause it was, I was 2 hours behind. Um, and I was like, oh, but I didn't know that it was, you know, forecast that or that, yeah, or that too. And anyway, and later when we got back, this was like 3 or 4 days later, we drove up to my, my parents' house by Ogden. So we drove up Highway 169 and it's kind of right in the western middle part of this yellow outline where you can see the scarring from the swaths of corn, mostly that were blown down. I mean corn was flattened. Uh, the beans were defoliated. I think the average outlook for their, um, like estimate of yield by acre drop from like 200 bushels an acre for corn down to like 110 or something, which is crazy. That's *** massive impact in in this state, yeah, and, and the corn had already been weakened in some cases because of Uh, the drought situation that was ongoing at that time in August of 2020. So you have just this wild, wild stuff. I mean, grain storage, you know, the giant bins had been blown over just like punched by the wind and whatever debris it was carrying. So you have all this sort of stuff. I guess we should show people the actual map from the Weather Service that shows these two main damage swaths. One kind of starts in southern Green County and goes through southern Boone County over south of Ames. The second one starts over, you know, north of Marshalltown, northeast of Ames, goes through Tama, Benton Counties, and then intensifies to those what was later categorized as *** 120, 30, 140 mile per hour damage in parts of Cedar Rapids. And caused all of that awful, awful stuff. Um, before we talk about anything else, we probably should mention that 4 people died from this show nationwide. One was in Indiana. I remember hearing about the bicyclist who got hit by *** tree in Linn County somewhere by Cedar Rapids, and then there were 2 people in Powhi County, *** woman in Malcolm who was killed on her porch by *** tree that fell, and then an electrician in the town of Brooklyn who got Electrocuted while trying to work on *** downed power line. So that's awful stuff there. What went wrong with the forecast? We already kind of mentioned that this storm, we had storms overnight in South Dakota that sort of persisted *** little bit longer than they were modeled to do. Yes. And when I looked at *** lot of this stuff after the fact too. Um, there were some, some of the modeling also depicted basically was forecasting there should have been some basically scattered non-severe storms in Iowa overnight, which would have basically tamped down the instability and the threat as much. Yes, yes, the later instability that was actually there when those storms that weren't supposed to be coming out of out of. went in here. I, you know, I do think it's worth mentioning though, this was, yes, the forecast was bad in this case, but the fact that we all remember that probably does point out that usually the forecasts are fairly solid. If we can know, if you could remember how all these blown forecasts perfectly, then it's not happening that often. But yes, it did happen. I do remember also seeing, if you look at this radar animation here, you can see some of the Um, hallmarks of ***, you know, severe wind event in them too, where that big Boeing segment starts to appear right over the middle of Iowa at 11 o'clock noon or so on. There's *** bow echo. You also see evidence of *** rear inflow jet, basically dry air flowing into the backside. The storm as it heads towards I-380, Iowa City in Cedar Rapids, which enhances the downward motion of air. There, I, I do remember hearing *** talk also at our, um, conference that we have every year in Akeny, I think was last year, from ***, I think *** grad student at Iowa State, that when they remodeled the atmosphere that day, um, there was ***, I guess, I think *** noticeable, I'm paraphrasing, like dry pocket in the mid-levels, the atmosphere, basically between the Des Moines area and Cedar Rapids. And of course we know what that would mean if all of *** sudden you have oh you have more dry air to train in the storm and that's gonna evaporate the rain and accelerate downward and guess what happens. And that's something that, you know, we don't have *** lot of data on because we can't. There's *** weather balloon in Omaha and there's *** weather balloon in Davenport. We're not going to have perfect information. Yeah, we're not going to see that. Yeah, we're not going to have the sort of high resolution data to know that ahead of time and in some cases we have even lower resolution data now. OK, so let's talk about some of the After effects. I wrote down some here. You tell me if there's others I'm forgetting. One thing that is good that has changed since then, um, the expansion of wireless emergency alerts. Yeah, absolutely, to now include, so basically what we're saying is now. Um, your phone will audit anyone's phone that has their alerts set up, will now get an angry sounding text message if you get not only tornado warnings, but also if you get *** high-end severe thunderstorm warning, like was issued that day. That wasn't happening yet in 2020 and it was in the process of being developed, but they kind of rushed it out faster so that by the next year now and beyond nowadays, yes, yeah, right, so. I, I think people need to make sure it's still like that they have those on on their phones. I know *** lot of people will get one and be like, I don't ever want to hear this, but it's could be life saving information. I mean literally could be life saving information. And obviously, we, you know, this event proved that it's not just tornadoes that are really, really, you know, can be highly destructive and life-threatening. Um, also, uh, Oh, I, I, this is just anecdotal, but like, there were *** lot of trees that were lost in this storm, um, cause what do people ask you sometimes? They ask it to all of us, what do they tell you? Is it windier now, right? You had those people all the time. Is it windier now than it it seems windier this year. We've had so many days with strong winds. This isn't normal, is it? Here's what I think. I think anecdotally. I think between that to, which I think the DNR estimates were 7 million trees that were destroyed or damaged, which is of Cedar Rapids canopy was blown down and you can see it through there. It was insane. I was gonna say, yeah, you probably should before we go on, you should probably talk about the day because you went to Cedar Rapids to do the cleanup stuff, was it the day after Tuesday? Yeah, yeah. What was that like? Uh, it was weird. Like, it, I think people say, oh, it looks like *** war zone, and I think that gets way overused. This doesn't necessarily look like *** war zone, but like the extent of the damage just kept going. You know, you get *** tornado and it can be, you know, hyperlocalized cause that'll be on the ground for 3 or 4 minutes. But I remember driving east, uh, Brandon from Channel 5 was with me, and Just seeing all of the trees down. There were so many roads that we couldn't even go through because there were so many trees down all over the place. And you got into Cedar Rapids, and I mean, nobody had power. There was no power anywhere. And, uh, we ended up, um, stopping at, uh, *** food and supply collection spot for *** lot of people. And, uh, we were helping organize there, but like, I mean, The amount of windows that were blown out was immense. Uh, you look at trees in that area. And I went hiking even like *** month after that, uh, in Wapsy, and, uh, you look up and it was like 3 quarters of the trees snapped. Like, it's not like these trees were blown over or lost limbs. They were just snapped in half. And think of the destructiveness and just the power that it's, that's necessary to do something like that to *** tree. But yeah, like when we were driving around, even through some of the more commercial areas in Cedar Rapids, there were very few areas that were left untouched. Uh, we drove past, what is it? KCRG out there. And I remember it was so eerie because you're driving by, nobody has power, and they had their letters above their station and 22 of them had fallen off because of the storm. And it's just like, this is like, this is literally something of an apocalyptic movie. Like it's just you don't see this widespread of destruction. Not that all the destruction was that bad, but even *** lot, *** lot of it was in the amount of people, like the stores in the area, that people couldn't get enough tarps because of the roof damage too. So, I mean, you looked around and everybody had tarps on their roofs. And I mean, that's when you had *** lot of the scammers that were coming in and, you know, selling new roofs to people and then never delivering, which is terrible in itself. But yeah, it was, that's, that's one of the more impactful, um, relief efforts that I've ever read *** part of. It was just, it was crazy to see. That reminds me of, um, I, I, so we both know, um, *** couple of people, well, so. Uh, I have *** friend who works at KGAN, one of the other stations there, and, uh, Sarah, your former intern who also was *** couple of years behind me at Iowa State, she was working at that station too at the time, and I remember hearing about how during when it was happening, because these winds lasted for in some places 3 hour, 45 minutes over an hour, which is highly unusual to have. Gusts, severe gusts that strong that long, um, they had to leave their studio in the middle of day when they were on TV because they're in *** TV, you know, folks who've never been in *** TV studio. Most of the time, most TV studios are 2 stories tall, and you have *** grid of lights hanging from the ceiling and so all of *** sudden they're, you know, they have their building has *** 100+ mile per hour winds blowing by it. And everything is shaking dangerous all above you. Like they went, they had to go out in the hallway and just stay on TV in the hallway looking out the window at what was going on in their parking lot down the hallway because they couldn't stand safely in the in the studio at that time, which I'm sure the view was still dramatic out the window though, you know, with that wind continuous. I think I, I think I have an uncle who lives in Cedar Rapids too, and I, I vaguely remember him saying, you know, he was my aunt had gone down the basement. He was standing up out, you know, on main floor looking out the window, and then as soon as he saw all the trees starting to fall over, yeah, he was like, yeah, OK, maybe I'll go downstairs now *** big deal. Maybe I'll take this seriously. This seems *** little worse than usual, um, but anyway, so the trees, right? Yeah. I think, I think anecdotally that is why some people think it is windier, because between that storm, between the 2021 storms as well, which granted that happened in December, so not as many trees were blown down, so, you know, cause there are no leaves, um, and then all the ash trees dying in the recent years. I think that's why some people think it's windier because where you live, your little unique spot in the world, your house. Might not have as many trees around it as it once did and so you're more exposed to the wind, you're hearing the wind more, you're feeling the wind more when you walk out into your yard. Even if you still have *** tree, you probably lost *** bunch of limbs. That tree is probably damaged in some way as dense. Anyway, that's I, I think that's *** good thought. And I mean, you said 7 million trees across Iowa. That's *** lot less friction for that wind to hit, and yeah. So it might not be windier, but I think some people just now notice the wind because the places, the places they're in are not as protected by trees anymore. Also, after the fact, we had the word Diraio get out. Oh yeah, I mean it was *** buzzword after that. Yeah, tell us exactly how that transpired, cause I see, I didn't get back to work. I was working over at WHBF in the Quad Cities at the time, until about 5 or 6 days later. So like by then it already happened, you know, all that sort of stuff and everybody now all of *** sudden had heard the word theracho, and I was like, yeah. Yeah, it's nothing new phenomenon. Yeah, I mean, it's something we as meteorologists, you know, hear *** lot and, and deal with *** lot. But I mean, just because we have, you know, ***, ***, *** word that defines *** certain type of storm doesn't mean anybody else really understands what that means, or even hears that classification. Um, so, I mean, this has been around for decades and, uh, Yeah, I say it's been around for decades, but again, this was *** rare storm. So people attach their brain to this being *** Duracho. No, not all Durachos are the same. They're not all alike. It's, it's like experiencing *** high-end tornado for your first, the first tornado we've ever been through, and then you think all tornadoes are like an EF45, right, which is not the case. No, um. Yeah, so yeah, between the people who think that we made the word up on the spot, and then the people who think now that every Diraio should be that. Yeah, that's that's just not. And people that just, yeah, they don't think that it's ever been *** phenomenon before, um, when it has, I mean, there's *** long cataloged history. Of these occurring. But I think the thing that struck me the most was almost like the mass PTSD from this storm. Because every time we talked about, OK, you know, we've got, uh, *** day where we'll have storms with the potential for damaging winds, everybody, for every single storm after that, is this going to be *** dura show? Like that thought process still carries on today and. Yeah, and even if you say yes, you have to you have to qualify that by saying, but not in the way you're thinking probably because yeah, because I know what you're thinking and it's not probably that, which is why, yeah, like in some there are some times where I Wish the word had not gotten out. I agree because it's such ***, it's such *** polar yeah it's like every textbook sort of technical academic term that we have that gets out and then it just is misunderstood by people or and it's morphed into other things for dramatic purposes, yeah. So, um, I also had forgotten that this happened during the pandemic too, which I mean, I, I didn't really forget, but you know, all of *** sudden I saw the pictures of people like wearing masks and having to huddle in the back room of *** store and I was like, oh jeez, between all of that, that's, there's *** lot going on, *** lot going on. I forgot about that part. Oh man, um, yeah, I, is there anything else you think I forgot? We, we, obviously it's ***, it's *** massive event in Iowa whether, not only recent history, but probably it will be for *** while unless something bigger happens, which, let's hope it doesn't. Um, I think one of the, honestly, like one of the most heartwarming things ever for me to take away from this was. You know, you had immediately, like *** Facebook group that was created, that, that had Deracho in the name. Like, it, you know, people impacted by the Duraio and it was just people trying to get other people what they needed. And people setting up, you know, I've got *** chainsaw, I can come help you cut this up like the complete and utter support from random people from all over to come and just help everybody. I've, I mean, I've seen that before. We see that regularly when, you know, we have significant weather events here, but on the scale that this was, and I mean, we had, what, food trucks, we had *** barbecue truck that would just drive around and give people free meals, like, the amount that the community was uplifted because of this, and everybody just wanted to help, was so heartwarming. And seeing that just, it gives you so much faith in people. Yeah, because every, I mean, you know, everybody was affected in some way. I mean, so many, so many people, unlike usual severe weather where it's pretty isolated to some places and not others. And yeah, everybody has *** story from that day or. Week as well. Um, it reminded me actually, so I was obviously, you know, out west gallivanting. But when we were driving back, no, we were driving on I-80 through Wyoming. So this was maybe two days later. And what do we drive by? *** literal like caravan of utility trucks, like the big, you know, line trucks with the baskets and everything on it. And I was like, hmm. I wonder where those are going. So there was *** stat at one point that we had utility trucks from like, I think it was like from 25 different states or something that was combing around Iowa because I mean that level of damage like how else are you gonna get power back our crews, we're not gonna be able to do it in *** timely manner. So, um, because we, I guess I forgot to mention too, you know, this was the At the time, I think still is today, the costliest single thunderstorm event in US history. I think at the time it was $11 billion worth of damage and inflation adjusted, that'd be like $13 or $14 billion now five years later. So just crazy, crazy, crazy stuff. Um, so hopefully today we've given you *** little bit of *** I don't know. Maybe you didn't want to think about it. Maybe you didn't want to recollect but we did. We talked about it anyway. We know we didn't talk about all of the stuff too, so you know, if you have *** story you want to share with us, by all means, you can send us an email, um, to us, to me, to Jason, if you didn't know it's weather at KCI.com. Um, yeah, there'll be other stuff I'm sure that we'll put on TV at some point in the in the coming days as well. So thank you so much for listening, Jason. Thank you for coming on as well. And now Jason has to go do some other stuff here, uh, for the rest of the day. So never stops. Yeah, have *** great day, everybody, and we will see you again in another video.