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It is, he admits, probably the end of the road for his trusty car with almost 190,000 miles on it.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <div class="mobile-dfp inline-ad-arrow less-spacing hidden-desktop hidden-mobile"> <i class="fa fa-angle-up flex-container-column flex-row-reverse"></i> </div> <p>"The hurricane was right on my tail," Smith said. "It caught me. It lifted the back of the car up and I was looking down at the road through my windshield. Then — bam — it slammed back down and that was it."</p> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-nativo inline-ad-arrow "> <i class="fa fa-angle-down flex-container-column flex-row-reverse"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-nativo inline-ad " data-inline-ad-count="2"> <span class="hidden-desktop"> <div class="wrapper clearfix col col-desktop-6 col-tablet-6 col-mobile-6 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo" id="f1ySbp1ZYDsvJq"> <div class="hidden-desktop"> <div id="13262" data-nativo-id-mobile="1069555" class="mobile-nativo-ad trb_ar_nt"></div> </div> </div></span> <span class="hidden-mobile"><div class="wrapper clearfix col col-desktop-6 col-tablet-6 col-mobile-6 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo" id="f0N1ClXYYDsvJq"> <div class="hidden-mobile"> <div id="2539" data-nativo-id-desktop="1069557" class="desktop-nativo-ad trb_ar_nt"></div> </div> </div></span> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-nativo inline-ad-arrow less-spacing hidden-desktop hidden-tablet "> <i class="fa fa-angle-up flex-container-column flex-row-reverse"></i> </div> <p>Smith, 56, hasn't filed a claim with his insurance carrier yet; he's been busy helping his parents clean out their wind-damaged house along the coast. He said he doubts he'll get much anyway and is instead hoping for some assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-nativo inline-ad-arrow less-spacing hidden-desktop hidden-mobile"> <i class="fa fa-angle-up flex-container-column flex-row-reverse"></i> </div> <p>Still, Texans already have filed more than 100,000 storm-related claims on their car- and truck-insurance policies, said Mark Hanna, a spokesman for the Insurance Council of Texas trade group, and some analysts estimate that figure will climb as high as 500,000.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>With hurricane season in full swing and the tally from Irma just beginning, Harvey has been projected to be <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-20170901-story.html" target="_blank">one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history, </a>with experts estimating damage could exceed $100 billion. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has even suggested that damage could reach $150 billion to $180 billion.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="image" class="card card-captioned collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <figure class=""> <div class="full-width img-container "> <img class="b-lazy full-width" alt="Vehicles sit beneath a destroyed building at Rockport Airport after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in south Texas." data-src="http://www.latimes.com/resizer/iVMI9g6zNAXGmKTfLkcO0zqGruk=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DORXOYQWRVHRXOSVSJFDQEGFPE.jpg" src="/pb/resources/images/tinygif.gif"/> </div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "> <div>Vehicles sit beneath a destroyed building at Rockport Airport after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in south Texas. 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"It's hard to go without a car in a place like Houston."</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="raw_html" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <div class="element element-rawhtml "> <p>The typical surge in vehicle sales after a natural disaster provides some economic boost to the affected area. A month after <runtime:topic id="EVWAN00045">Superstorm Sandy</runtime:topic> slammed New Jersey and New York, New York City-area <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-20170901-story.html" target="_blank">vehicle sales jumped 49%.</a></p></div> </div> </div> <div data-type="quote" class="card card-pull-left collection-item"> <div class=" card-content pullquote spaced spaced-top spaced-right spaced-left spaced-md "> <p class="quote-text spaced spaced-bottom spaced-md">Our entire inventory is no longer available for sale.</p> <div class="byline emdashed quote-author uppercase spaced spaced-bottom spaced-lg align-right"> McRee Ford, Dickinson, Texa </div> <hr class="spaced spaced-bottom spaced-xs"/> <div class="flex-container-row align-items-center spaced spaced-bottom spaced-md"> <span class='caption-text flex'> Share quote & link </span> <span class="sharebar align-right"> <button class="button button-icon button-icon-hover-accent " aria-label="share on twitter" name="twitter" onclick="window.open( 'https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Our+entire+inventory+is+no+longer+available+for+sale.&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fla-fi-harvey-houston-cars-20170911-story.html', 'share_popup', 'height=500,width=650' ); return false;" role="button" data-arctrack="socialShareTwtrQuote" data-referrer="" data-quote='Our entire inventory is no longer available for sale.' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <i class="fa fa-twitter color-accent"></i> </button> <button class="button button-icon button-icon-hover-accent " name="facebook" aria-label="share on facebook" onclick="window.open( 'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fla-fi-harvey-houston-cars-20170911-story.html&quote=Our+entire+inventory+is+no+longer+available+for+sale.', 'share_popup', 'height=500,width=650' ); return false;" data-arctrack="socialShareFbQuote" data-referrer="" data-quote='Our entire inventory is no longer available for sale.' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <i class="fa fa-facebook-square color-accent"></i> </button> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Edmunds estimated that 366,000 new vehicles on dealer lots in Texas were damaged by Harvey, including 150,000 to 200,000 new vehicles in the hardest-hit areas such as Houston and Corpus Christi.</p> <div class="mobile-dfp inline-ad-arrow hidden-desktop"> <i class="fa fa-angle-down flex-container-column flex-row-reverse"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mobile-dfp inline-ad hidden-desktop" data-inline-ad-count="4"> <div class="wrapper clearfix col col-desktop-6 col-tablet-6 col-mobile-6 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-dfp" id="fFraCS1iZDsvJq"> <div class="pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300x250 hidden-desktop relative"> <div class="ad-caption-text align-center uppercase">Advertisement</div> <div id="biz_sf_561" class="hidden"> </div> </div> <script>(function(){function loadAd(){window.serviceCallbacks.push(function(){if(window.services.dfpService&&window.googletag&&googletag.pubadsReady)window.services.dfpService.appendAd({id:"biz_sf_561",adType:"cube",slotName:"/4011/trb.latimes/biz/sf",displayMobile:true,displayDesktop:false,isOOP:false,is5x1:false,dimensionsString:"[[300, 250]]",sizemapString:"",sizemapRefresh:"false",refreshOnPhotoChange:false,includeInA9:false,includeInIndexExchange:false,options:{ptype:"s",iab:"dis,news",apv:"false",site:"trb.latimes",
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"This is a great position to be in to help Houstonians get back into transportation and on to moving about the city."</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>She said some dealers "have multi-story parking garages, and a lot of them put their vehicles into those garages" before the storm hit "so they wouldn't suffer damage if the water was to rise."</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="image" class="card card-captioned collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <figure class=""> <div class="full-width img-container "> <img class="b-lazy full-width" alt="Rhonda Worthington talks on her cellphone with a 911 dispatcher after her car became stuck in rising floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston. Worthington said she thought the water was low enough to drive through before the vehicle started to float away." data-src="http://www.latimes.com/resizer/Q6MMsbAZh5N1HVjGkEhLFHSZZUs=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/52LXC6CS2BACFHWICWTUKD2BIM.jpg" src="/pb/resources/images/tinygif.gif"/> </div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "> <div>Rhonda Worthington talks on her cellphone with a 911 dispatcher after her car became stuck in rising floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston. Worthington said she thought the water was low enough to drive through before the vehicle started to float away. 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