Posted on 10/29/2018 1:16:14 PM PDT by C19fan
Venice was almost completely flooded on Monday, with rain-soaked tourists evacuated from St Mark's Square as fierce storms lashed Italy.
Water transport services were halted across Venice as 75 per cent of the city centre flooded to 156cm (61inc) by early afternoon, the highest level since 2012.
Residents and visitors were wading through waist-high water in St Mark's Square before the mayor gave orders to evacuate the area. Police wearing hip waders carried a number of children to safety as stranded tourists waited to be ferried to higher ground.
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Remember when you could drive on the streets of venice? :)
Live in a toilet bowl what do you expect?
Trump’s fault.
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.)
Who ordered the Code Red?
Those poor pigeons!
Where will they go to get their birdseed?
Is it Trump’s fault yet?
Help me! I’m sinking and I can’t get up!
Verona
Funny
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.
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.
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
You can’t handle the truth.
Venice is “flooding”?
How can you tell? /s
Gonna need more gondolas...maybe another vaporetto or two...
The one place I’ve always wanted to go. Will probably never make it now since Hubby is disabled.
Wake me up when libtards say its Trumps Fault.
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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