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DMV warns car buyers about flooded vehicles

   Good thru Monday, July 8

   On KELLY showlog as FLOODE

INTRO – The very rainy weather of recent weeks is prompting a warning to car buyers from state officials. George Olsen has more.

IN: “A press release from the state Department of Transportation advises…”

OUT: “…can cause those systems to malfunction. I’m George Olsen.”

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A press release from the state Department of Transportation advises those looking at used cars to be on the lookout for evidence the car may have been flooded. The National Weather Service says rain over the past 90 days has been 10 inches above normal… enough, the Department of Motor Vehicles says, to put some cars under water.  DMV warns potential buyers to look over used cars from the state or anywhere along the eastern seaboard closely. Among tips for identifying flooded vehicles… check the vehicle interior for water lines whose stains are hard to remove and check all electronics as flooding can cause those systems to malfunction. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.