What is the theme in Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen?

A large part of this novel is about people who use the hurricane to their advantages. These people find a moment of pain and misery for one group of people to be their chance to make a few bucks or to make themselves look good in the eyes of others. Edie sees the hurricane as a chance to run a scam on the victims of the destruction by employing Snapper to help her pretend to have been injured by debris. This scam does not work, but quickly leads to another scam in which Edie and Snapper are employed to defraud an insurance company. Edie sees this scam as her big break, the break she has been looking for since coming to Florida months before the storm.