Venice was reeling after experiencing its highest level of floodwater since 1966. High tides from the lagoon reached more than 6 feet higher than their usual level—the second-highest ever seen since records began in 1923. Two people were reported dead. Waters entered the nave of St. Mark’s Basilica and parts of the La Fenice opera house, left boats deposited on the canalside paving stones and in the middle of city streets, and surged across more than 80 percent of the city’s surface. — CityLab
Feargus O'Sullivan, writing in CityLab, reports on the devastating flooding that has impacted Venice, Italy, where five of the 20 worst floods in the city's history have occurred over the last ten years.
Aside from being located on a spit of land in the northern Adriatic sea, Venice has subsided over 8 inches in the last century. The city is currently in the midst of constructing a large-scale $6.5 billion flood control system that is nearly complete. It is expected that the so-called MOSE flood barrier will be completed by 2021.
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