<prompt> Human: Not to make light of terrible events these past few days, but do Hurricane Harvey and Irma create real estate buying opportunities in heavily afflicted areas? My thoughts:People might want to leave after a tragedyPeople might not have flood insurance Property values might just diminish due to large scale destruction of infrastructure.If anyone has some input on this or experience with this idea Id love to hear it.  <response>: Youre asking about timing the market - which we never advocate to do here. There are still a LOT of houses for sale where Hurricane Katrina hit, too.. There are a LOT of houses around the General Motors, Ford and Dodge assembly plants for sale.. There is a reason a lot of these properties will be abandoned - there are thousands of experts who know which properties MIGHT be worth buying in 1-5 years when the banks and the counties and the state and feds all finish pointing fingers and passing the buck.. This is really not something you want to take on if youre not one of those experts, and, especially if you dont have any friends in the remediation sector... 