Venice flooding - pictures - not a joke
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Re: Venice flooding - pictures - not a joke
That happens quite often I think ............. Venice really is slowly sinking
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Re: Venice flooding - pictures - not a joke
I found this from 2012
Apparently this sort of level happens once every four years (statistically) - more likely Nov/Dec - but is steadily happening more often.
This one was 156cm and three-quarters under water.
The acqua alta of Venice recently reached such heights (…or depths), it was all over the news. More than 70 percent of Venice was under water. Last weekend, in fact, the acqua alta got up to 149 cm (4 ft 10 inches), the 5th-highest level the floods have reached in the past 150 years.
Apparently this sort of level happens once every four years (statistically) - more likely Nov/Dec - but is steadily happening more often.
This one was 156cm and three-quarters under water.
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Re: Venice flooding - pictures - not a joke
And what's the most interesting part about their floods is that they don't have a sewer system in Venice, so when you wade through high water, you wade through diluted sewerage.. yummmm….
http://savethewater.org/2016/11/14/v...contamination/
http://savethewater.org/2016/11/14/v...contamination/
Last edited by woodworm; Oct 31st 2018 at 1:25 am.