Ft. Myers causalities

Ok ..so what happens to all the flooded sleds in this part of the state....private/commercial ? Impound lot in Albemarle NC ask for DB13?

I was just wondering that as well. They're currently filling up a number of parking lots around the area and I'm seeing some pop up on FB marketplace. 

They'll probably pop up at FL auctions after the insurance companies process the paperwork.

I heard something over 100,000 with water, or worse salt water damage.

I feel sorry for the uninformed that buy them thinking they may be getting an inexpensive daily driver.

It's is going to be a mess. How many of those cars are actually snowbirds. To make matters worse, they are going to claim it been in whatever state they live in to cover up the fact it was really a FL car that got flooded from the hurricane. 

In reply to CrustyRedXpress :

Unfortunately, most will not be FL auctions. 

I was planning to replace my truck soon. Not now...

In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :

It was not part of the decision to stop looking for something. I honestly did not think about it. Add that to other reasons.... glad I ain't looking!!!

In reply to 03Panther :

I don't get it-cars cost money to ship.

Why would they show up at auctions further away from the flood site?

I'm thinking the ones the insurance companies pay for will get salvage titles.  That should be a clue to most buyers.

Some have already started to pop up on Copart in Punta Gorda, Miami, Tampa, Orlando. Only a few have actually started bidding so I haven't seen how the final sales prices are shaking out.

In reply to CrustyRedXpress :

Some dealers lie. Easier to lie away from where flood was. LA cars appeared  in states thousands of miles away for a while after their flood. 
Us private folks, moving a car is expensive. 
But used cars are mined all over, all the time. At least used to be. I assume the dealers are still moving a lot of drugs that way. Donno. 

I thought you were meaning the bodies that are washing up on the beaches. Those are going to the Ft Meyers ice arena until they can be IDd and processed. 
As for the vehicular casualties, yeah I'm seeing some already pop up on FB market place. Cars and boats. I suspect we'll be seeing them for a year. 

In reply to DrBoost :

I was glad to find out it wasn't!

Speaking of, I never did hear how bad is was. Do they have a numbers estimate?

They will probably end up in Turkmenistan:

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121625347/the-salvage-car-silk-road

My friend Steve was interviewed for the podcast. So likely a lot of them will be dumped internationally.

Here's the first one I found...

Flooded hybrid, yeah baby!

travellering said:

Here's the first one I found...

Flooded hybrid, yeah baby!

Stick it in a 2 ton bag of rice and let it sit for 24 hours and it's good to go, right?

-Rob

In reply to 03Panther :

Last I saw was 102 I think. But that was a week ago. Not sure if more bodies have washed up after that. 

Here's one. 13" is a lot for a low-slung car like this.

I was looking at the pictures of one trying to find the yellow horizontal line a lot of them have drawn somewhere down low to mark the waterline. I finally figured it out-they just put a signature at the top of the window-The top of the convertible was the waterline. 

When I saw the post title, I feared the worst.  Glad it's "just" about cars. 

In the Volvo 1800 list (former Yahoo Group) I'm part of, one listee posted about his '72 1800E getting about 4' of salt water. He's on one of the barrier islands that doesn't have bridge access yet.  He posted a picture of it and it looks pretty bad. Theoretically it could be saved, but it would need a butt-load of work and money.  I'm sure Hagerty will be paying out a lot from this storm. 

CrustyRedXpress said:

In reply to 03Panther :

I don't get it-cars cost money to ship.

Why would they show up at auctions further away from the flood site?

So they can wash the salvage title and not have people suspicious.  Cars don't get flooded in Nebraska or Kansas too much.

After Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston in 2017 there were tens of thousands of ruined cars, sitting in huge impound lots, after the insurance paid off and took the vehicle.    I never knew what happened to all those flood vehicles.   There was one of these lots near my office and the vehicles gradually disappeared from the lot.

From the press release:

"CARFAX estimates the widespread flooding across Florida and the Carolinas in the wake of Hurricane Ian potentially damaged as many as 358,000 vehicles."

Problem will be many cars that only for a " little" wet will clean up nicely , but all the electronics under the seats etc will die at an unknown pace ,

I wish the insurance company would have a big metal stamp saying SALVAGE that they could stamp next to the VIN Plate

Yeah I know it's not going to happen !

In reply to Toebra :

People selling cars would do unscrupulous things like that! Say it isn't so!