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from the random-and-intermittent-failures dept.
https://qz.com/1066966/how-many-cars-were-destroyed-by-hurricane-harvey/ and also at other news outlets.
For Harvey victims, it's going to be rough if they lost their car, Houston is a very car-dependent city. Like many states, Texas only requires liability insurance — only those that bought comprehensive coverage will be able to claim the loss on insurance.
Ideally most of these flooded cars will be scrapped, as it's very likely water damage to electrical systems and other parts are not cost effective to repair professionally. However, there will be "new" and used cars on the market that have been underwater (to a greater or lesser extent). Many will be sold "as is" and some of them will be cleaned up and sold fraudulently as if they were not damaged. Buyer beware, these cars will be shipped all over in search of buyers (marks?)
After Katrina, friends of mine with time on their hands bought several new-flooded Honda Civics (which they were familiar with from building "street stock" race cars). They pulled out the interior and then the full wiring harness. Bought new harness from Honda and replaced everything, and had perfectly good near-new cars for pennies on the dollar (and a few days of hard labor).
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:10PM (6 children)
Yeah, right. Flood in a landlocked state (Colorado) with salt water.
Even if they'd want to, they wouldn't have the money for all that salt and logistic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:30PM (2 children)
No shit. The point is to illustrate that there are two kinds of water flooding and one is way worse than the other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @12:54AM
Why did you limit yourself at water damage?
(Score: 2) by bziman on Monday September 04 2017, @03:30AM
Hmm, I actually hadn't thought of that. Thanks for pointing it out. (Not a lot of salt water in Colorado, after all.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:40PM (1 child)
Utah, with its Great Salt Lake, is immediately west of Colorado. If Utah floods badly enough, there will be salt water in Colorado.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday September 03 2017, @10:35PM
Those Mormons, they can multiply the water of Salt Lake like bread and fishes, everybody gets their piece of flood.
Have you looked over the terrain [google.com] to see what it means for Salt Lake to flood into Colorado?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 03 2017, @09:58PM
Ahem... Salt Lake in Utah (it's not just a name).