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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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday September 03 2017, @10:37PM
Having to pay thirty grand to hire someone other than the perfect fit strikes managers as a potential waste of a colossal amount of money.
There used to be a dozen body shops in Santa Cruz County. Now there's only one, but it's a very good one.
I actually support commissioned recruiters who really do provide value-add to hiring. But they are few and far-between.
My single most popular page is my Telecommuting and Remote Work index [soggywizards.com], which is still in its infancy. These days quite a lot of companies hire remote - some are quite enthusiastic about doing so.
As I built my Austin index, I noted companies that offer remote work with HTML comments. In the next week or so I'll add them to the remote and telecommuting page.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]