I’m well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I’ll get in now while it’s cheap as chips.

In this remark, Brown frames herself as a savvy, worldly observer who can anticipate change before others do. She treats a natural disaster’s aftermath as an investment opportunity: property values have fallen, but she predicts recovery and future appreciation (“up again in eight years”), so she plans to buy while prices are low (“cheap as chips”). The quote blends confidence, colloquial humor, and a speculative mindset, suggesting an attitude of opportunism and long-range planning. It also reflects a common narrative of “buying the dip,” applying market logic to place and circumstance—an outlook that can read as pragmatic entrepreneurship or, depending on the listener, as bluntly transactional in the face of others’ hardship.