High tides and lashing rain struck Venice Tuesday night bringing the water level in some areas close to a 50-year record high and causing inestimable damage to the centuries-old city.
In a surreal scene, Italian TV showed a person swimming in St. Mark’s square last night as well as other bizarre images of water gushing out of toilets and electrical sockets in homes. An initial survey of the damage of St. Mark’s Basilica, which is in one of the lowest parts of the city, revealed the crypt with its famous mosaics totally submerged in water.
Flooding is not new to the romantic city built centuries ago in the Venetian Lagoon. High waters in Venice, known as ‘’acqua alta’, periodically affect Venice and its surrounding islands during the fall to spring period when a combination of weather and tides raise the level of the sea water. The President of the region, Luca Zaia, told Italian Mediaset TV ‘’We are faced with total, apocalyptic devastation.’’. He went onto say ‘’I’m not exaggerating; 80% of the city is under water, the damage is unimaginable."
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Abdul Rasheed Quresh hashmi 03060420285th
Venice is in a state of emergency. And the rain will continue for another week. 😢
We can deport global heating deniers to Venice now? WaterWorld
they live in a canal ..a canal
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But let's keep denying climate change...everything changes but the climate evidently. This is heartbreaking
J'aurais voulu y aller avec Sabrina l'algérienne celle qui est restée 11 ans avec Moi on devait y aller en plus
The lost city of Venice
Mehedihasan003
boil the water out
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