Supreme Court Rules Government May Be Liable for Flooding.

[DallasNE]

7. We Had A Summer Long Flood In 2011 Along The Lower Missouri River

That caused considerable damage and even caused both Nebraska nuclear power plants to be shut down due to the flooding. Much of Interstate 29 was closed all summer.

Without the upstream damns the flooding would have been far, far worse but the water level behind the upstream damns were at dangerous levels making the controlled flooding necessary. One of the nuclear plants is still not back up (it was already down for routine maintence/repairs).

This ruling opens up the federal government to billions of dollars for damages in just this one climate change flood. Oh, and there was a more minor summer long flood in 2010 in the identical area and it took a lot of farm land out of production in 2010 (though it caused little other damage) and that is a few hundred million more. Do you also pay the barge companies because the river was closed for months to barge traffic?

This ruling will be expensive. Very expensive and a boon to lawyers jumping on the gravy train.