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                                    <p>If you smell a musty odor inside a used car a few months from now, or notice carpeting that doesn’t match upholstery, beware: You might be looking at a survivor of Hurricane Harvey.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
                                    <p>About <a href="http://www.abcactionnews.com/money/consumer/taking-action-for-you/an-estimated-half-of-the-cars-that-flooded-during-harvey-will-be-sold-with-no-flood-label" target="_blank" title="">half of the cars that get inundated during Hurricane Harvey and end up in used car lots won’t even have a flood label on them</a>, according to ABC Tampa Bay.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
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                                    <p>“Look at all those vehicles floating around,” Frank Scafidi, of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/a-half-million-flooded-cars-and-trucks-could-be-scrapped.html" target="_blank" title="">told CNBC</a>. “There are people who will try to take advantage of the situation.”</p>
                                    
                                        
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                                    <p>Vehicles flooded up to their hoods are a staple of the pictures coming out of car-loving southeast Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane late last week and has continued pounding the Houston region with feet of rain ever since. The flooding is so pervasive that car experts say <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/a-half-million-flooded-cars-and-trucks-could-be-scrapped.html" target="_blank" title="">500,000 vehicles could end up in the scrap yard</a>, according to CNBC.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                        
    
    
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                                    <p>Even before Harvey, Houston had more rebuilt <a href="https://www.carfax.com/press/resources/flooded-cars" target="_blank" title="">flood-damaged cars on the road</a> than any other U.S. city, according to Carfax, and flood damage can impact a car’s safety, mechanical, and electrical systems.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
                                    <p>“This is worse than Hurricane Sandy,” Jonathan Smoke, chief economist for Cox Automotive, told CNBC. “Sandy was bad, but the flooding with Hurricane Harvey could impact far more vehicles.”</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
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