of the severe flooding we had again in hoboken. and i -- i -- on may 8th, i sent a letter saying, that these things cannot be -- that we really need the funding and that basically i had received my office had received notice that we were not going to believe receiving funding, i was writing saying, i hope this is not the final decision, we really need help. that happens on wednesday may 8th. those things -- the planning board meeting, the letter to the governor saying, please, you know, we really need help. i'm hearing we're not going to get hazard mitigation funding, i hope that's not the case. >> do you believe the may 10th -- >> two days later, their office calls friday afternoon and says, we want to do a sandy business event on monday. i think at, like, 10:00 in the morning. the timing seemed strange.