lot of activity in recent years. and one thing that you were talking about earlier about the weakening of the storm, it should not be considered taking our foot off the gas. we have to still be prepared because we have got a lot of examples with other storms that have approached north carolina, weakened before they got here and, you know, everyone starts to believe well, maybe it won t be so bad. good example for that was hurricane floyd in 1999. it was a cat 5 off of florida. it was really only about a cat 1 by the time it got to north carolina. still went on to cause $6 billion in damage in our state and became our greatest disaster in history. steve: jay, we were just looking at hazel. now we are looking at floyd. so many people have talked about hazel back in the 1950s. how bad was that? oh, my. hazel is the only category 4 ever to hit the north carolina coast. and that was in october of 1954. very different storm and particularly the track coming up out of the caribbean racing i
planted his roots deepest in memphis, tennessee, across the state and sang out his show business heart later in his career in las vegas, it was right here in nashville he made most of his best music. in all, elvisecorded 262 records here in music city. beginning with that classic you hear in the background, heartbreak hotel. since heartbreak hotel , he has sold over a billion records and continues to be a best-seller. it was a total change. radio stations who were, you know, in charge at that time, they immediately switched their formats. after trying his hand in october of 1954 at the grand ole opry, elvis becomes the country s first taylor swift. the change was just overnight. the music went from frank sinatra to elvis presley. elvis presley was danger. and he was passion. and he was sex.