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Harvey's Destruction "May Have Solved The Auto Industry's Inventory Problem"

Harvey's Destruction "May Have Solved The Auto Industry's Inventory Problem"

On Tuesday, during the peak of the Harvey-related flooding, we reported that the hurricane may leave a greater trail of automobile destruction than even Katrina, the most expensive natural disaster in US history. In August 2005, Katrina wiped out some 500,000-600,000 vehicles but William Armstrong of CL King warned that Houston has about 5x more people than New Orleans did at the time.