November 12, 2012

Acqua Veramente Alta

"Acqua alta" is a normal occurrence in the Republic of St Mark every November. But this is a little extreme, even for Venice.

Thanks to my friend Kris for pointing this out to me.

UPDATE: Here are some on-the-scene observations from "I am not making this up."

3 comments:

Peter Hoh said...

More photos here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/venice-under-water/100403/

Irene said...

Thank you, Peter!

Leslie said...

Oh how sad! Venice is such a treasure... hopefully they can come up with a solution before its too late.