Jan 31 2025 27 mins
Been in Ashville, North Carolina, 30 years....North Carolina gets hurricanes, but they always affect the coast - Ashville is a 6 hour drive from the coast! Hurrican Helene hit last September 27 / 28, and Chuck flew home from Scotland the day before it hit; the local online newspaper warned of "Catastrophic winds & flooding!"; the 3-4 days before the hurricane Ashville got 15" of rain, which saturated the soil...Chuck lives on a mountain, having bought a house back in the day before the real estate boom; homeowner's insurance does not cover floods or landslides, for that you need flood insurance, which was prohibitively expensive, and why would you need it if you lived on the side of a mountain?!?! Chuck has 2 landslides on his property which will be very expensive to clean up; FEMA covers the roof over your head, but not if you can't get to your roof, or if you have landslides; Chuck has posted a new song on YouTube about the hurricane and the aftermath: "Sound of the Wind and the Rain" - posted 4 days ago!!; very little income from streaming, some income from when songs are picked up in film or TV, but mostly live shows.