Remember the day I re-came or the forecast and we were actually fairly blosé about it. The house we lived in is pretty old. It survived in 1927, flood, which we looked at as the benchmark. Things happen so quickly when it hit that, you know, 15-minute period, one tree after another went down. Then there, deck was listing and throughout this whole period, all you could hear, it sounded like thunder because the water was moving so fast, it was carrying boulders and they were just grinding against each other with just noise like thunder throughout the whole day. You could smell the dirt. It was like there was an excavation shovel pulling the dirt out of the hill that our house had been on. So it just smelled like spring in the Northland. It's raining, the dirt is exposed. It's just smell, it's no soil, maybe. And then, you know, shortly after that, that fell over and the house fell over. Yeah. You know, I basically thought I was, that was it. I really didn't think I was going to survive because the water was coming out. But, you know, once I just accepted that, it got very calm and it was like my subconscious just clicked in. You know, it's like a hot air voice in my head telling you what to do. It was completely... Everything, everything was different. All your reference points are gone. Something like that happens. It's just so disruptive to, you know, your day-to-day routine is built on assumptions. You have a house to live in. It's going to be there. The floor is now turning. The walls, you know, water doesn't do that. This flood was caused by the water rain. It was worse than the 1927 flood. That was, that was an easier disaster that turned, that destroyed Vermont's industrial base. But, you know, this is, this is on a bigger scale. You couldn't just see in the weather. It's a farm state. We depend on, you know, if there's some farmers depend on the weather. Depend on having, you know, the right amount of sun and rain to to grow what they need to put the market to take care of their livestock. And what is happening is that it's taking a predictability that people need to you know, it's, for me, it's, it's climate change. It's too many pesticides. There's a lot of things that, you know, human beings are doing to their environment that need to be stopped. We have to start working with nature instead of trying to don't do this. Our society is built around cheap fossil fuels, but they're not cheap. It's just that the people that, the corporations that sell them are painful costs. Those costs aren't included with the cost of a gallon, gasoline or the cost of a gallon of fuel. If those costs were fairly included, the cost of having to clean up, the cost of oil trains bills, all those costs were included. Oil would be the most expensive fuel. One of the features I like about putting a price like carbon is that the tax money that's put on it will be used to facilitate the transition to a clean energy economy. For months, it's always been people that don't trust the talk, but they walk their talk. When Irene came, everybody was looking at their first responses. How can we help? I became involved just because I feel it's hard to do it because to give the world to our children a better shape, I feel responsible for my daughters and how the world that's better than this one.