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      <img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/59a3f27279bbfd04418b4fca-1500/hurricane%20harvey%20flooding.jpg" alt="Hurricane Harvey Flooding" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Adrees Latif" data-mce-caption="Jesus Rodriguez rescues Gloria Garcia after rain from Hurricane Harvey flooded Pearland, in the outskirts of Houston, Texas, U.S. August 27, 2017."/>
      <span class="caption-source">
        <span class="caption">Jesus
  Rodriguez rescues Gloria Garcia after rain from Hurricane Harvey
  flooded Pearland, in the outskirts of Houston, Texas, August
  27.</span>
        <span class="source">REUTERS/Adrees
  Latif</span>
      </span>
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  <p>
  The full extent of the devastation, mayhem, pain, and loss of
  life that Hurricane Harvey is leaving in its path is still
  unknown, and people are still trying to get to safety.
</p>
  <p>
  It sent the oil-and-gas industry reeling. Housing in affected
  areas took a serious hit; perhaps $40-billion in damage,
  according to an early guess by CoreLogic.
</p>
  <p>
  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-storms-harvey-homes-idUSKCN1B81W4?il=0" rel="nofollow">expect</a> losses on about 400,000 mortgages that
  they guarantee. This could increase as flood waters rise.
</p>
  <p>
  They wonât know the extent of the damage until after the wind and
  rain in Texas and Louisiana subside. Other homes did not have
  mortgages, or had mortgages that were not guaranteed. So perhaps
  a total of 500,000 homes.
</p>
  <p>
  If each affected home had 1.6 vehicles parked there on average,
  it would mean that about 800,000 vehicles sustained flood damage.
  Many people evacuated with their cars, so this is just a guess.
  How big is this number? Over the past 12 months in the Greater
  Houston Area, dealers sold 285,000 new vehicles.
</p>
  <p>
  But not all flood vehicles will need to be replaced. Insurers
  might only pay to clean up and repair some of the vehicles. And
  many people without comprehensive coverage wonât have the money
  to replace their vehicle. They might also get laid off because
  the company they work for is under water, and it might take a
  long time for things to return to normal.
</p>
  <p>
  When a new vehicle on a dealer lot gets flooded, it cannot be
  sold anymore, and the insurance company takes it off the dealerâs
  hands. But personally owned flood vehicles that were partially
  immersed in water might be serviceable afterwards, though they
  tend to stink, are hard to clean up, and may have, letâs say,
  some issues. If a vehicle gets washed down the street and suffers
  severe body damage, itâs likely to turn into a total loss.
</p>
  <p>
  The driver of the SUV in this photo apparently "tried to make a
  right turn into a gas station last night; a ditch full of water
  looks a lot like a road full of water in the dark," said <a href="https://wolfstreet.com/author/michael-gorback-md/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrernoopener noreferrer nofollow">Michael
  Gorback, M.D</a>., in Houston, who took the photo. This looks
  like one of the headaches the insurance industry is facing:
</p>
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      <span class="source-only source">
        <a href="https://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/29/what-will-harvey-do-to-carmageddon/">Michael
  Gorback, M.D. via Wolf Street</a>
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  <p>
  So if 800,000 cars received flood damage, not all will be
  replaced. And of those that will be replaced, many were older
  vehicles that will be replaced by used vehicles. But how many of
  them will be replaced by new vehicles? And what will this do to
  the decline so far this year in new vehicle sales? Will it stop
  Carmageddon and restart the auto boom?
</p>
  <p>
  Before Harvey hit, auto sales in Greater Houston had already been
  battered to Financial-Crisis levels by the oil bust and the
  subsequent construction downturn. In July, heavy incentives
  finally did the trick, and there was an uptick: new vehicle sales
  rose 6.4% from the crushed levels a year earlier, according to
  TexAuto Facts, reported by InfoNation, and cited by the <a href="http://www.houston.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrernoopener noreferrer nofollow">Greater Houston
  Partnership</a>.
</p>
  <p>
  But for the 12-month period through July, auto dealers sold
  285,501 new vehicles, down 12.4% from the same period last year,
  and down 25% from the levels in late 2015 and early 2016.
</p>
  <p>
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  Point Comfort, Texas, August 26.</span>
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  <p>
  Now come the effects of Harvey.
</p>
  <p><strong>August:</strong> Starting on Friday, August 25, in the
  flooded areas, new vehicle sales essentially dropped to zero.
  Dealerships are closed. People are struggling with evacuations.
  Theyâre trying to find loved ones. They canât get around. Auto
  sales will remain at zero in flooded areas until the water
  recedes.
</p>
  <p>
  This may take a week or more. So auto sales in the affected
  areas, which now include parts of Louisiana, will plunge in
  August. Given how large the area is, six days of zero sales will
  further depress nationwide sales numbers for August.
</p>
  <p><strong>September</strong>: Vehicle sales in the first part of
  September will look very ugly in affected areas and will remain
  at zero in some areas. After the flood waters clear out, people
  will begin to assess the damage to their vehicles. Many vehicles
  will be OK. Folks will clean them up and go on. Other vehicles
  will end up in a salvage yard. People with comprehensive
  insurance coverage will try to get their insurance adjusters to
  pull out their check book, and adjusters will try to minimize the
  payouts. Many older vehicles donât have comprehensive coverage,
  and these folks are on their own.
</p>
  <p>
  Then the search for replacement vehicles begins â new and used.
  New-vehicle dealers whose lots were seriously flooded cannot sell
  those flood vehicles. The insurance company will take them off
  their hands. Some dealers experienced a total loss of inventory.
  Since the flood waters are still rising in some places, and more
  rain is expected, the full extent of the damage to dealer
  inventories is not yet known.
</p>
  <p>
  There is plenty of new vehicle inventory in the US â too much of
  it, in fact. These vehicles, in theory, could be transferred to
  Texas and Louisiana, and dealers in other parts of the country
  would love to get rid of them. But the excess inventories are
  largely in cars. Persuading Texans to replace their pickups or
  SUVs with sedans or compact cars? Thatâs just not going to
  happen. So there will be inventory shortages of the desired truck
  models. But it wonât make much of a dent, so to speak, into the
  pile of new cars accumulating on storage lots around the nation.
</p>
  <p>
  Some of these dynamics, including dealer transfers of vehicles
  into Texas, will kick off in September. Most likely, the first
  half of September is still terrible for sales, but demand will
  surge in the second half. Dealers in surrounding areas, including
  Dallas-Fort Worth, will see booming sales until they run out of
  trucks.
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  <p><strong>October</strong>: New vehicle sales in the affected areas
  will surge. It will entail a mad scramble to get trucks and SUVs
  from other parts of the US to dealers in the affected areas. Lead
  times with manufacturers are too long to respond to this demand
  spike quickly. The surge in demand will likely continue through
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  How visible would this surge be in the national numbers? So far
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  vehicle per month, down about 41,000 from last year.
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  If Harvey creates demand for 100,000 new vehicles a month, on top
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  300,000 additional vehicle sales in total, it would be just
  enough to bring total 2017 sales nationwide back to the level of
  2016.
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  However, it will be an enormous logistical and personnel
  challenge for dealers in this region to get back on their feet,
  source vehicles to replace their flood vehicles, and source an
  additional 100,000 new vehicles every month for the rest of the
  year, and sell all of them. They will work furiously to
  accomplish this, but I doubt that it can be done.
</p>
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  Instead, the Harvey-triggered demand will likely translate into
  smaller sales gains in late 2017 â probably not enough to pull up
  the entire year to the level of 2016 â and will spread further
  into 2018, with pickups and SUVs experiencing most of the boost,
  and car sales languishing as before.
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