Hurricane Harvey flood cars

Recent thread in Wetheads about a submeged for two days RT made me think about two of these lots I have seen along the Coastal Bend of Texas.



The one in this video is from the College Station area located at the Texas World Speedway, the previous NASCAR track long before Texas Motor Speedway near Dallas


We passed another at IH-10 and TX 71 near Columbus west of Houston Metro which was receiving cars from Victoria, West Houston, and coastal cities due south. The scale was hard to grasp knowing this was only one of about six sites I read about.
We passed so many rollback wreckers with two vehicles and a few with a tow along third it just made you really grasp how many salt water issues compounding rainwater issues for a typical unit were out there waiting their fate.

Many brand new units are here from dealerships as well as many exotics including some Lambo's. Trust CARFAX and other tracking entities to keep all these tracked and updated? I read 500K estimate on stored cars waiting on insurance adjusters for those lucky to have full coverage...many only carried liability.

Know of a few folks who lost bikes in the flood as well and wonder how many are sitting in these lots as well

Wow!

All the more reason to never buy a used car. I'd rather drive a basic new car than a loaded used POS that's been someone else's headache, unless I know the PO personally.... YMMV
I live in the land of sunshine and scam (S.FL) so there is vey little choice and seeing how most peeps don't maintain their vehicles, no thanks..

I think I'd keep the car in my possession until the insurance adjuster and I agreed on a settlement.......

I read 500K estimate on stored cars waiting on insurance adjusters for those lucky to have full coverage...many only carried liability.

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OM

Omega Man said:

I think I'd keep the car in my possession until the insurance adjuster and I agreed on a settlement.......



OM

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I would venture a guess that a large percentage were towed without notifications to owners.

Found a story about who is running tow operations:

http://www.nydailynews.com/newswire...-houston-flood-damaged-cars-article-1.3476708

Good article Steve. From the cars to the dealerships, it looks unrecoverable.
OM

A lot of couch time today

Yeah, the numbers are mind boggling

This BMW car guy saved his stuff

https://blackflag.jalopnik.com/quick-thinking-and-garden-blocks-saved-this-guys-bmw-x5-1798527553


These, not so much

There will be lots of Core (rebuildable) engines and other parts out there for the hot rod guys.

The cars have the windows up. In the sun and heat down there, you will need an environmental suit just to open the door.

Most not cleanable or rebuild possible..