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Brenda

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12. I bought flood insurance for the first time ever in January.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 05:48 PM

Jul 8

I don't live there but I know Asheville well and couldn't believe that shit last fall from the Helene catastrophe.

The insurance wasn't that much and you just can't say "it won't happen here" about anything anymore.

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