the hospital with respiratory issues, as well. heat and drought, of course, related issues. the fires were so intense that they created their own thunderstorms. that s called pyrocouumulonimbu clouds, that has become a factor that has become an issue in the past decade. who could forget the ice storm in texas that put 10,000 customers in the dark from austin to houston to san antonio. it also disrupted the water and natural gas availability across the state. staying in texas, this is incredible, a super cell thunderstorm created a hailstone over 19 inches in diameter. we would be remiss to forget what happened in the middle of december of january or of december 2021. we had, on average, 23 tornadoes in the u.s. states, but we had over 116 just in the course of that month. during the middle of the month, we had our long-track tornados barrel through portions of arkansas, missouri, kentucky, and into tennessee and we can t forget about what happened to