Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Venice under water
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On no! Venice, Italy is experiencing its worst flooding in twenty years. The fourth highest tide in modern history surged into the city Monday. The pictures from the Daily Mail of England are hard to fathom. The debate in many media organs is whether or not Venice which is known to be sinking risks becoming uninhabited. The population in recent years has dwindled to 66,000 and a large percentage of those residents are elderly. The city is flooded several times a year. Residents this week say you can literally swim across St. Mark's Square. Yet the city receives as many as twenty million tourist visits a year according to the Daily Mail.
Labels: ecology, Pop Culture
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Clearly I just can't get Britney off the mind!
Thanks for catching that, 'tis all better now.
These pics have a sweet/sick shot of a man wakeboarding through St. Mark's Square.
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Thanks for catching that, 'tis all better now.
These pics have a sweet/sick shot of a man wakeboarding through St. Mark's Square.
