The damage from a major natural disaster can be harrowing – loss to life
and limb combined with property damage, environmental, economic and
psychological impact make picking up the pieces difficult. But long
after the crisis ebbs, the damage lingers, becoming ever more pernicious
and difficult to discern. Mold inside walls, unseen weakened
structures... they all get covered up with fresh coats of paint. So,
too, it is with the automobiles affected.
We first told you about these cars yesterday, but now professional photographer Doug Kuntz has agreed to share his incredible aerial images with Autoblog
so we can pass them on to you, the reader. Going one better, Kuntz has
given us more than twice as many images than what you saw on the
Weather.com link yesterday.
The runways full of cars are the four-wheeled remnants of Hurricane Sandy
– but they aren't all headed to the scrap heap. These vehicles are but
part of the over $63 billion in damage brought by the late October
storm, but insurers are hoping to recover some of their own damages by
auctioning some of them off, parting others out, and scrapping the rest.
The runways of Calverton Executive Airport on Long Island are now home
to 15,000 such vehicles – a sliver of an estimated 230,000
cars and trucks damaged or written-off by Sandy.
Some of the cars shown in these images will join thousands of others
that will filter their way back into the used car market in some form or
another. New York law dictates that complete vehicles must have their
titles stamped as "flood" to alert buyers, but it's not uncommon for
that to not happen, whether born of intent to deceive or simple neglect.
Snapper Kuntz urged Autoblog to warn you, the reader, of the
danger of purchasing flood-damaged cars like these, including damaged
electrical and safety systems. In Sandy's case, he didn't just see these
vehicles from the air....
Read more, photos, reaction/comments: http://www.autoblog.com
http://www.airnav.com/airport/3C8
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