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Venice on 'code red' as city sees worst flooding since 2012
UK Telegraph ^
| October 29, 2018
| Andrea Vogt
Posted on 10/29/2018 1:16:14 PM PDT by C19fan
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Fall and winter is acqua alta season in Venice. The Italians have been building a system of flood gates to protect the city but construction has been ongoing for 15 years.
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:16:14 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Remember when you could drive on the streets of venice? :)
To: C19fan
Live in a toilet bowl what do you expect?
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:18:24 PM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:20:24 PM PDT
by
bwest
To: C19fan; BenLurkin; Kaslin
Queue global warming screams of outrage in 4, 3, 2, ....
(Global average air temperature for September 2018 by satellite measurement was 0.14 degrees warmer than when measurements began 1978.)
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:21:18 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: C19fan
Who ordered the Code Red?
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:24:37 PM PDT
by
jospehm20
To: C19fan
Those poor pigeons!
Where will they go to get their birdseed?
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:25:54 PM PDT
by
randita
(PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
To: C19fan
Help me! I’m sinking and I can’t get up!
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:26:29 PM PDT
by
oldplayer
To: Bartholomew Roberts
To: jospehm20
To: TangledUpInBlue
Didn’t they spend hundreds of millions on some sort of floating water abatement system that was supposed to stop this? I guess it didn’t work too well.
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:46:30 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: hal ogen
No, it was never started/never finished/perpetually in the process of being funded etc.. Then the mafia ahem, uh, appropriated some of the funding. It ain’t happening.
To: hal ogen
I was there 3 months ago.
The only thing which looked new were gondola-boat docks.
Some of the smaller bridges looked newer probably because the bridge was no longer high enough.
Rialto Bridge definitely looked newer but probably just repairs
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:57:07 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: jospehm20
You can’t handle the truth.
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posted on
10/29/2018 1:59:41 PM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(Winter is coming)
To: C19fan
Venice is “flooding”?
How can you tell? /s
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:02:56 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(You gotta stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!)
To: C19fan
Gonna need more gondolas...maybe another vaporetto or two...
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:04:26 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: Zathras
The one place I’ve always wanted to go. Will probably never make it now since Hubby is disabled.
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posted on
10/29/2018 3:04:59 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: randita
Wake me up when libtards say its Trumps Fault.
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posted on
10/29/2018 3:22:56 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: C19fan
I don’t know my history of Venice. But I do wonder, what was the idea behind building a city in which the streets are canals? And is the city also a series of islands in a river?
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