Opry owner, Wisconsin company sue over Nashville floods
Source: CNN
The owner of country music's Grand Ole Opry sued the U.S. government on Monday, accusing two federal agencies of turning the 2010 flood that struck Nashville into a man-made catastrophe.
Gaylord Entertainment was joined in the lawsuit by A.O. Smith, the Wisconsin-based water-heater manufacturer that saw one of its plants along the Cumberland River inundated in the May 2010 flood. Their lawsuit names the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Weather Service, which have acknowledged that a lack of communication undercut flood warnings.
"It is a simple fact that we incurred millions of dollars in damages because the Corps released so much water into the Cumberland River that it rose above the 100-year flood plain," the companies said in a joint statement. "We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to seek remuneration for the losses we sustained as a result of this negligence, and also to ensure that both parties make significant process improvements to prevent a man-made disaster from occurring in any future flood event."
The Cumberland eventually crested at nearly 52 feet in downtown Nashville, almost 12 feet over flood stage and about 10 feet higher than forecast. The flooding killed 11 people in the city and inflicted more than $2 billion in damage, with an additional 15 people killed in the surrounding region.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/us/tennessee-flood-lawsuit/index.html
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able to sue in court for damage incurred....like, uh, fracking and stuff?
Just a wild guess. Nashville tends to be MIGHTY republican. 
as if we needed another shopping mall.
Growing up in Nashville, I had great memories of Opryland until Gaylord screwed it.
NICCCCEEEEEEEEE.
What an offensive post.
