Well, you know, I’ll tell you, before Hurricane Andrew, we were at about 1,000,002 as far as visitors every year. By 19 96, 4 years after Andrew, we weren’t seeing half a million people. And a lot of the funding disappeared because the community had to rebuild itself. And so convincing them to, to support and give funds to help rebuild Metro Zoo while they were trying to rebuild their lives or their communities, it was a very tough sell. And so a lot of our programs got curtailed. And, and I just, I, to be honest with you, I I kind of saw the writing on the wall and I went, as sad as it is, I don’t think the zoo will ever recover or ever never meet its potential. And that zoo had incredible potential. I mean, we were, besides Gladys Porter, we were the closest to the tropical zoo you could get, which means we could do a lot of stuff at less cost compared to Northern Zoo.
