With all the notice they had, why the heck were there so many floating cars in NYC? Oh, right, it’s a way to get the insurance company to buy you a new car.
I don't think that's a fair statement. Lots of folks did not expect the flooding to the extent that it did. Areas like Brooklyn and Queens and many parts of LI were not evacuated in advance and those folks lost their cars if their particular areas were hit. If you noticed, the Jersey shore did not have so many waterlogged cars because folks there were expecting it. Also, in the NYC area, some folks moved their cars to parking garages only to have them washed away there too.