Venice mayor declares disaster as city hit by second worst high tide

VENICE, Italy - Venice was hit by the second highest tide recorded in the lagoon city on Tuesday, which flooded its historic basilica and left many of its squares and alleyways deep underwater.City officials said the tide peaked at 187 cm at 10.50 p.m. , just short of the record 194 cm set in 1966.

Saint Mark’s Square was submerged by more than one meter of water, while the adjacent Saint Mark’s Basilica was flooded for the sixth time in 1,200 years.

nicholasrmiller Holy shit.

Venice was built by cutting down forrests and sinking logs into the mud, I'm sure this beautiful city can be saved with engineering ingenuity.

Climate change!!

Was there a couple of months ago. Really feel for the Venitians. x

I know we all see it At this point do we really need the argue the science (not to diminish it’s importance)? ClimateActionNow .350 .BernieSanders .AOC GreenNewDeal NOW

Venice has been slowly going under water for quite some time. Climate change will accelerate the sinking of that beautiful city.

Please bless our beautiful Venice my Lord

It’s because the ice is melting

How much co2 was there 50yrs ago

Could any of the water management engineering, currently being used in the Netherlands be of any assistance to the Viennese ? Is any of that science at all able to be applied to the situation in Venice?

Sounds like they need to start driving pilings and shore up the city.

Hope the cafe that charged me $30 for a glass of water is totally ruined......Apart from that, I hope the rest recover and no major damage has occurred

Humans really going to let the world sink.

I'm high on Canibus deal breaker sovereign creator planetary care taker

This is so sad & just the beginning

You know I was stationed in Kodiak Alaska over 30 years ago and the average temperature year-round was 42 degrees and in the summer time it would get as high as 65 maybe 70. Now I'm hearing the temperature can gets as high as 90°. What's up?

a beautiful place... with some beautiful memories...

Venice is cancelled 😎

Trump says more European fake news. Says the picture of the ocean was photo shopped like his Inauguration Crowd Photo.

Very sad for Venice. Perhaps it would be an eye opener for Trump to travel there to see what denying climate change looks like.

If only they all had little boats to get around in.

“The situation is dramatic,” Brugnaro said on Twitter. “We ask the government to help us. The cost will be high. This is the result of climate change.”

beautiful, beautiful Venice... many wonderful memories there...

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