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Venice flooding - pictures - not a joke

Old Oct 30th 2018, 1:49 am
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Old Oct 30th 2018, 2:17 am
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That happens quite often I think ............. Venice really is slowly sinking
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Originally Posted by scilly
That happens quite often I think ............. Venice really is slowly sinking
Been happening for decades. The YT vid I posted was from 1983 when it was released by Rondo Veneziano as a fundrasing track for Venice in Peril, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_in_Peril_Fund).
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I found this from 2012
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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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/

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