We thought the same thing. Unfortunately it’s near impossible to sue a city. Wish I was joking. We met with a lawyer and it turns out the only way we could sue here is via negligence and we thought we had a good case for that but nope. Turns out that we would have needed to prove that the city knew this situation could happen. And because this was likely caused by a fat berg it was even less likely to be deemed negligence by the city. because it’s homeowners who pour cooking oil down the drain and flush tampons and other things like that, that cause fat bergs to form.

As I noted to the other person who mentioned a lawyer below, we talked with lawyers and no one wanted to deal with this. The claim is approved at this point so hiring a lawyer, again, at this stage means paying out of our own pocket.