Is Venice a potential New Orleans?

Old Sep 29th, 2005, 04:05 PM
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Is Venice a potential New Orleans?

"Protests as Moses is ordered to hold back the sea from Venice" is the title of a Times Online article.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...804252,00.html
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Old Sep 29th, 2005, 04:11 PM
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Whaddya mean "potential?" A good chunk of it is already underwater for a good part of every December - "Aqua Alta."
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Old Sep 29th, 2005, 04:15 PM
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Venice has suffered significant flooding several times in the past - but not damage as bad as NO - since there is no large body of water for hurricanes to build over - so you can get lots of water - but not nearly asmuch in the way of winds and buidling destruciton.
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Old Sep 29th, 2005, 04:50 PM
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Just read the article and stop stoning the messenger. You can get flooding, nytraveler, by the water rising or the land sinking. In Venice, the water is 80 centimeters higher on the buildings than it was in the time of Canaletto. Higher water or sinking buildings? Does it matter? The result is the same.
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In 1966 all of Venice was flooded for more than 15 hours, and the water was several feet deep in the Piazza. Although the destruction was not of the same monetary loss, size, or human suffering as N.O.there was quite a lot of damage and pollution from the lagoon water.
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