Venice has water in more than its streets

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Tourists carry their luggage as they make their way through high water in Venice, Italy, on Monday. It’s the worst flooding in Venice in more than 20 years.


Venice has water in more than its streets
By Mark St.Clair, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Headed to Venice, Italy, in the next few days? Bring your hip waders.

After one of the highest tides in more than 130 years, the city experienced massive flooding Monday, with knee-deep water filling the streets, The Associated Press reported.

Venetian officials put the high-water mark at 61 inches, 21 more than the existing 40-inch flood mark, after ocean winds pushed water over existing barriers.

As of yet, the waterlogged city hasn’t posed problems for Army and Air Force travel offices on Caserma Ederle and Aviano Air Base.

Ederle, in Vicenza, is about an hour away from Venice. At the Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation’s Information, Ticket and Reservation office, there hasn’t been any talk of Venice at all, said Gysell Carteret.


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