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waxonwaxoff User ID: 27509109 Spain 11/12/2012 05:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't freak out. It's cycles. Happens alot. From 2005: Venice Dries Up! Thursday, January 13, 2005 In Venice, Italy, gondolas are getting stuck on the dry bedsof the canals. Hotel docks are dangling in mid air. What?sgoing on here? Venice is drying up! Venice, which usually has a few feet ofwater on the ground at high tide, has dried out due to lackof rainfall in the area. Rightnow, gondolas can onlytravel on the Grand Canal, Venice's largest and deepest. From 2007: Venice Canals Running Dry? Late last year, unusually high tides drowned the city – and this week low tides “have been running as much as 70cm below normal.” This means that several of Venice’s smaller canals have dried up almost entirely, leaving some Venice gondolas stuck – at least until the water returns. And I even have a picture: :cool2: [link to www.flickr.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 20557418 United States 11/12/2012 05:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Unreal! Quoting: Levski Too bad that the Global Warming shills will use this to brainwash the sheeple. I will call Al Gore in to suck up all the excess water his large vacuous mouth... How does it feel to be so ridiculously and hilariously on the wrong side of history? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27572981 Japan 11/12/2012 07:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't freak out. It's cycles. Happens alot. Quoting: waxonwaxoff From 2005: Venice Dries Up! Thursday, January 13, 2005 In Venice, Italy, gondolas are getting stuck on the dry bedsof the canals. Hotel docks are dangling in mid air. What?sgoing on here? Venice is drying up! Venice, which usually has a few feet ofwater on the ground at high tide, has dried out due to lackof rainfall in the area. Rightnow, gondolas can onlytravel on the Grand Canal, Venice's largest and deepest. From 2007: Venice Canals Running Dry? Late last year, unusually high tides drowned the city – and this week low tides “have been running as much as 70cm below normal.” This means that several of Venice’s smaller canals have dried up almost entirely, leaving some Venice gondolas stuck – at least until the water returns. And I even have a picture: :cool2: [link to www.flickr.com] Sure, half of Venice floods every year, right? Wrong. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11934995 Canada 11/12/2012 07:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't freak out. It's cycles. Happens alot. Quoting: waxonwaxoff From 2005: Venice Dries Up! Thursday, January 13, 2005 In Venice, Italy, gondolas are getting stuck on the dry bedsof the canals. Hotel docks are dangling in mid air. What?sgoing on here? Venice is drying up! Venice, which usually has a few feet ofwater on the ground at high tide, has dried out due to lackof rainfall in the area. Rightnow, gondolas can onlytravel on the Grand Canal, Venice's largest and deepest. From 2007: Venice Canals Running Dry? Late last year, unusually high tides drowned the city – and this week low tides “have been running as much as 70cm below normal.” This means that several of Venice’s smaller canals have dried up almost entirely, leaving some Venice gondolas stuck – at least until the water returns. And I even have a picture: :cool2: [link to www.flickr.com] Sure, half of Venice floods every year, right? Wrong. "Venice's high water, said to be the sixth highest since 1872, flooded 70 per cent of the city." So it's a once-every-25-years kind of phenomenon. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 6493463 United States 11/12/2012 09:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.brisbanetimes.com.au] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26838736 Tourists attached plastic bags to their legs or stripped off to take a dip in St Mark's Square in Venice on Sunday as rising sea waters surged through the lagoon city. High water measuring 1.49 metres above the normal level of the Adriatic came with bad weather that swept Italy at the weekend, causing floods in historic cities including Vicenza in Tuscany 400 kilometres further south. Read more: [link to www.brisbanetimes.com.au] So when's Bama gonna make the oceans recede already? |
Munsoned User ID: 27143553 United States 11/12/2012 09:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well gee, you build a city on water and gotta figure it may flood from time to time. Freedom requires breathing room, the Constitution presupposes that there will be some crazies among us so that the rest of us can enjoy freedom. - Judge Andrew Napolitano A huge shit cloud is coming! |
pray_Italy User ID: 27592458 Italy 11/12/2012 10:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | <- writing from VENICE..... nothin to see here, move along..... this is VERY normal to have Venice UNDERWATER at this time of the year.... What indeed is NOT normal is the height of the water level (such as 150cm recorded on Sunday), but this was however due to the SCIROCCO winds that were blowing here all day long and slightly increased the already high water level a notch above the NORMAL standard. Furthermore, the actual construction site of the MOSE appears to influence the water level by not somehow trapping the incoming water for a bit too long so that the Venice area is kept with a bigger amount of water than usual where the tides constantly equal themselves with a steady water level. The building site (unofficially) appears to prolong the time necessary for the water to flow OUTWARDS so that at particular times the rise of the water level is aggravated. We do NOT SUFFER any kind of sinking of the island or rise of sealevels around the area, it's just a COMMON and REGULAR habit we living close by and the residents of the islands are used to. |
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