Willie Sutton's total take would be a 'nothing', on a highspeed rail project.
As I understand it, this is the worst flooding they’ve had in the last 6 years!!!!!!!!!! It’s historic!
Venice is flooding because that’s where the water is.
In 1953 my parents were in Venice. A tour guide told them the city was slowly sinking and would one day be flooded. My father would be sad to see this but not surprised.
“Sinking is NOT ‘global warming’...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7620018/venice-floods-sinking-defences-pictures/
Scientists tracked the elevation of Venice and its surrounding lagoons over a ten year period and have said that on average, the city is sinking up to two millimetres every year.
It’s thought the subsidence is due to plate tectonics as the Adriatic plate, on which Venice sits, is subducting beneath the Apennines Mountains and causing the city and its environs to drop slightly in elevation.
Yes, flooding because of ‘climate change’
I thought Fortune used to be kind of a right-ish magazine. Guess O’Sullivan’s Law strikes again.
Built on a Swamp means nothing ? LOL
Venice has always flooded.
But NOW, it’s serious, because climate change.
Oh good grief!
My cat farted, must be climate change.
Reminds me of New Orleans
Subsidence, pump out water, land sinks
Shoreline erosion, prevention of seasonal Mississippi flooding
Salt water incursion
The Crescent City is doomed
It’s just a matter of time
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-study-maps-rate-of-new-orleans-sinking
Hasn’t that city experienced flooding since it was built?.
Venice has been flooding for centuries. It’s built on subsiding land. The stupidity... It hurts!
“The regional governor for Veneto, Luca Zaia, said flooding this week could reach the levels of the 1966 flood that engulfed both Venice and Florence.”
back when the sea hadn’t yet “risen”, hey?
Acqua Alta.
Happens at least once a year when the winds blow up from the south around full or new moon.
Venetians plan for it. It happens.
Venice has been sinking since the first day it was built, not only because of plate tectonics but also because of compaction of the soil in the lagoon floor. Every building in Venice stands on wooden pilings driven deep into the soil. The water itself makes the pilings virtually impervious to rot and the mud on the lagoon floor even moreso. Some of the buildings have been on the same pilings for more than a thousand years.
But all those pilings have increased the loading on a base of soil that sat for millennia only having to bear its own weight. The famous Rialto bridge alone requires 6000 pilings at either end to support the bridge's massive weight (the current bridge is made from marble), all its weight coming to bear on the relatively small patch formed by the pilings. The load bearing that the construction of the city subjected the soil to caused (and continues to cause) it to be compacted, so the lagoon beneath the city has gotten deeper very slowly over time.
Venice has sunk nine inches in the past century, and sea level has increased only a fraction of that (if at all). And all of that sinking is due to choices the Venetians have made, not to man-made global hooey.
Venice floods every year. What’s the big deal? And corruption involving a massive Italian public works project?! Shocking!
The Mediterranean is melting!!! Quick, expand government while there’s still time.
Water levels itself. If Venice is going under, one would see it in every other coastal city.
Venice is built on silt. It has gone down 9” in the last century. Plus it is in a locale that floods frequently.
If Venice is flooding because global warming is melting the ice caps and raising sea levels, shouldn’t we see flooding in other coastal cities? If tbat were true then Al Gore better roll up the carpets in his seaside California mansion