Matt Lanza

And that's why we've seen category fives, category fours litter the whole Gulf Coast since 2017.

The research kind of backs this up.

This is not something that should be considered out of line going forward, that this is going to become kind of more the rule than the exception, I think.

And...

Yeah, it's really... Ugh, what the... Yeah.

You know, and it goes beyond that.

Yeah, it just is.

It's something.

I don't know what.

Yeah.

No, but in all seriousness, like, you know, we're recording this in late July.

And I mean, like tomorrow, something could come out, some edict, and the whole thing changes.

So

As it stands today, there have been a number of cuts throughout the course of the year.

We had basically like not forced retirements, but heavily encouraged retirements with scare quotes.

We've had people that have left early.

So number one, you've lost a whole heck of a lot of

experience from the National Weather Service.

You've lost, for the younger people in NWS, now they've lost mentorship and things like that, things that will help them to get better as time goes on.

So that's unfortunate.