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Venice Under 5 feet of Water as City is Flooded (PHOTOS)

telegraph.co.uk — Venice suffered its worst flooding in 22 years as water in the Italian city rose to more than 1.5 metres (five feet) deep before beginning to recede.

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  • MMilitia, on 12/01/2008, -17/+579Well if you're going to build your roads out of water you're eventually going to pay the price.
    • megamod, on 12/01/2008, -2/+38They're all walking so calmly though, like it's an everyday thing...wth?

      Are they making sidewalks out of floating wooden planks on the last pic?
      • oninbonin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9Yeah, I noticed that everyone seemed happy anyways.
      • DiggzDE, on 12/01/2008, -9/+18The captions state in one of the photos something like, "workers setting up floating walkways". You should read sometime, does wonders for finding answers to those pesky questions that may come up.
      • megamod, on 12/01/2008, -1/+30"elevated", is it floating though? It looks like it is but if that is the case wouldn't it be a bit unstable for people to walk on?

        Maybe you should read more carefully before passing on judgment. I don't know why people have to act like stuck up douches on-line.
      • malia808, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4they're elevated walkways, not floating
      • mrmayor92, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2their probly really used to the city flooding so its not that big of a deal
      • bullhead2007, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4This kind of flooding happens all the time now in Venice. They are working on a levee/dam system to stop the seasonal flooding.
      • poxonyou, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5I love how they all remain fashionable as well. Whenever there are pics of flooding in the US, you see people shirtless, in shorts with like their dog floating on a makeshift raft.
    • DiggzDE, on 12/01/2008, -10/+2Venice is the next Atlantas. Soon it will be swallowed up by the sea and in a few thousand years will be nothing more than a fabled city.
      • DougieD, on 12/01/2008, -0/+14A few thousand years? A little optimistic, eh? I make a mental note to visit Venice sometime soon. It's such a beautiful city. I think It's so cool to see the local people just kinda laughing things off as they go about their day in the flooded city. That says quite a bit about the people there!
      • MCJackhammer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3They really like water?
      • wrathoftheafe, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1the only atlanta i know of is actually in a drought. maybe the other one could send some water that way and everyone would be better off.
    • MWeather, on 12/01/2008, -1/+47"Well if you're going to build your roads out of water you're eventually going to pay the price."

      Beats being flooded by asphalt, though.
      • remotehuman, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8valid point. dugg.
      • MCJackhammer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+11I never understood how the Street Sharks swam through asphalt...
    • Delphium226, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4Building stuff out of water.... now that's an achievement.
    • KillerLettuce, on 12/01/2008, -2/+5Venice was the smelliest city i've ever been too.
      • MCJackhammer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8I can imagine people taking a piss on the "streets" and nobody notices...
      • nipplash, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2It's not that bad. Most industrial cities smell worse than Venice.
    • SilverBack101, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4It's all fun and games until someone spots a fin in the water heading towards them.
      • Peko, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the piazza...
    • Velnich, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2Serves them right for not assuming other larger nations would eventually melt the ice caps and raise the water levels.
    • wrathoftheafe, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2i guess they figured where they were going they didn't need roads.
    • djodorg, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1still is a beautiful city...truly one of a kind...hopefully the flood clears..
    • oxthemoron, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1"Venice was flooded 50 times between 1993 and 2002, with the worst incident on November 4, 1966, when the city was submerged by 1.94 metres of water amid catastrophic flooding throughout Italy"...

      Do they mean from 1893 to 2002 or like a nine year span, because that is one hell of a place to live if you have this happening 5 times a year.
    • ryanscottdavis, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1more pics at http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/venice_un ...
      (all on one page too)
  • Trekhawk, on 12/01/2008, -9/+216Venice is the Italian New Orleans, except with fewer plastic bead necklaces.
    • Dipster, on 12/01/2008, -1/+61Fewer plastic bead necklaces also equals fewer boobies.
      • Dumbledorito, on 12/01/2008, -0/+63They have them. They're just carved in marble.
      • alpha19, on 12/01/2008, -3/+22@Dumbledorito:

        Or surrounded by chest hair.
      • Johnnyhorse, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6You haven't been to Italy, have you?
      • rowbot, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1@Dipster

        WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?

        if you type in Italian on Google search.....
        well yea.... lots of tiny bikinis
    • CrushThemTorg, on 12/01/2008, -0/+96Cue Kanye West saying Silvio Berlusconi doesn't care about Venitian people.
    • redfred18t, on 12/01/2008, -0/+40I'm waiting to see an italian looter with a tub full of wine and cheese
      • BoonTobias, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9wtf you mean looter? founder!
      • Dumbledorito, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6If I was looting Venice, there are loads of other things I'd grab before the wine and cheese... except for a quick snack.
    • cowie, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5I presume that this a white chocolate city then?
    • Noliaboy75, on 12/02/2008, -5/+2that's horrendously inappropriate
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 12/02/2008, -4/+1A bit too soon, buddy....

      ........A bit too soon.
    • chase001, on 12/02/2008, -2/+1And fewer brown people for the Right to drown.
    • CCoe, on 12/02/2008, -1/+4VENICE is the Italian New Orleans. God that's insulting.
    • Eslamicolt3, on 12/02/2008, -1/+1Instead you have Ferrari memorabilia.
      • nipplash, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2The sad thing is that it's cheaper to buy Ferrari memorabilia in the states than it is in Italy.
    • thehotcarl, on 12/02/2008, -2/+0Um, that's not inappropriate. If it was a 9/11 type joke/comment, well yeah, as with any other tragic event. This is an inconvenience.

      So any comments about soggy cicchetti are okay...
    • TinababyK, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Venice is Mumbai( few years back) .
  • bleh19799791, on 12/01/2008, -22/+9No amore water please.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI
  • Surferess, on 12/01/2008, -3/+431OMG! St. Mark's Square is totally pigeon-less! It is a miracle!
    • gallagherFTW, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7is that where they did that kay jewelers commercial?
    • humperdeath, on 12/01/2008, -0/+38This is how they clean the pigeon poop form St.Marks from time to time.
      • MCJackhammer, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2Poop still floats, though.
      • cleovii, on 12/02/2008, -0/+6Now it's just floating all over those cafe tables.
    • ssn697, on 12/01/2008, -3/+8I can't decide if this will make Venice less or more stinky..
    • swazo, on 12/01/2008, -2/+2there is substantially more water there than i remember. hmmm
    • Alexbt, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Actually, no. If you look at the picture closely, you can see them sitting on or floating about the water.
    • TommyTikal, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Wait till you see the seagulls...
    • gitboxgreg, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1now theres just fish.
  • Ro4ddog, on 12/01/2008, -10/+219So wait... Even though it's already mostly under water, if you add MORE water, they consider THAT a "flood?"
    • vashth3stampede, on 12/01/2008, -0/+23damn, that woman must be like 10 feet tall!
    • AnalJustice, on 12/02/2008, -2/+1remember, when you see a black guy in this kind of situation, he/she must be stealing!
      • Incomp3tnt, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1I got the reference, even if no one else did.
  • FuckEnslavers, on 12/01/2008, -25/+4I blame global warming.
    • johnomaz, on 12/01/2008, -3/+13then blame global warming 22 years ago to?
    • napalm9295, on 12/01/2008, -4/+2I blame Diggtards like you.
    • SheaGK, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5I blame your mom -- I hear she's so fat that when she went swimming in Florida, Venice flooded!
  • kankailang, on 12/01/2008, -141/+1
    • SpookyPig, on 12/01/2008, -4/+27DIE
    • appleseed1234, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7I hope your online store gets looted by desperate Venetians.
    • DurtyJ, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Oh awesome! I was really looking to order all the name brand clothings from a website that looks like it was thrown together in frontpage 98 run by a guy with both a yahoo and a hotmail address!
    • baconz, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Service Unavailable? Aww. I really wanted to buy your shoes and crap. I would have spent lots of money too. Oh well. FAIL.
    • lroche, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1reported
  • pyg13, on 12/01/2008, -12/+302Expected to see that this was from the Onion ... 'Venice Flooding' ... lol
    • naturalcauses, on 12/01/2008, -4/+21It did sound like something The Onion would say
    • ChronicColonic, on 12/01/2008, -4/+24It's all because of global wetting.
    • alpharaptor, on 12/01/2008, -1/+23'Venice is Floodeder'
    • dnbnaaa, on 12/01/2008, -2/+2yep, i thought so too
    • wavesreflection, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1read my mind
    • Quenlin, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1I actually said to myself "The telegraph is a bit slow on the April Fools thing"
  • cyrusuncc, on 12/01/2008, -14/+8surprise surprise
  • borez, on 12/01/2008, -21/+1Wow, that's really suprising.

    /sarcasm
  • Rmo4, on 12/01/2008, -0/+46Ironically, one of the most supported methods of saving Venice is by pumping water into the soil underneath it, in order to lift the city to a level protected from flooding.
  • Hybred1234, on 12/01/2008, -1/+36What's surprising is how happy the people look in the majority of these pictures. I guess they really are sort of used to this like the North is used to feet of snow.
    • xsquirrel378x, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2yeah i think it floods a lot over there. nothing new except on some days its more like waterworld
    • AReallyGoodName, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1If you've even been to Venice during low tide the whole place smells. This flooding is probably providing relief for the residents. Also they're probably mostly tourists in the photos, who isn't happy on holidays?
      • nborders, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1No one lives in Venice any more. Workers mostly come from the mainland and tourists fill out all of the space. So most folks in the pictures probably have homes that are high and dry.

        Not to be negative, but with rising oceans, at what point do we cut places like Venice off? In 100 years will, what was once Venice and the lagoon be a memory?

        ~n
      • AROZ, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1^How come the 2004 census reported 270,000 Venetians?

        Also, I bet there's some technological or scientific solution which will save Venice (or parts of it).
    • Gutterpunk, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1Most of them seems to be tourists though.

      They laugh at the 5k$ they just lost
  • Blitzwing84, on 12/01/2008, -6/+382Wow, 5 feet of water. Those people in the pictures must be giants.
    • andre321, on 12/01/2008, -1/+42They're blatantly wearing stilts.
    • dr0psy, on 12/01/2008, -1/+87im just wondering why the hell theyre standing in the water in the first place..
    • protodon, on 12/01/2008, -0/+30Their genitals are cold.
      • SpenderH, on 12/01/2008, -0/+13There was shrinkage!
      • fguanlao, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10I was in the pool!
      • mattrh, on 12/01/2008, -5/+2so are mine. im rubbing them right now with my grimy hand to keep them warm
    • 8bitflu, on 12/01/2008, -5/+2Those are the people the Bible talks about.
    • blueswannabe, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7The street is well above the water level to begin with...
    • JKAL, on 12/01/2008, -3/+3RTFA or even the descriptioin: it rose up to 5 feet, then receded, the pictures are after it receded.
    • circuscircus, on 12/02/2008, -2/+1I don't think the extra 5 feet of water start from ground level. It's measured from sea level.
    • ttamshadbolt, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2their legs don't stop growing
    • petebert, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1they might be giants
    • paradigm1220, on 12/02/2008, -1/+1Think about this, the water rose 5 feet. Now I know that Venice is slowly sinking, but I don't think ground level is dead even with sea level. So the 5 foot rise could be 3 feet up to Venice's ground level and an additional 2 feet higher, which would also explain the "giants" walking in the water.
  • dumass4u, on 12/01/2008, -7/+117If thats five feet of water the woman in the picture is about 13 feet tall.
    • Traductus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+61she could be walking on stilts. You need to think outside the box like me.
    • SteveMTyler, on 12/01/2008, -7/+8In the US, the civil code mandates that all walkways be built at sea level. I imagine it might be different in venice, they may be allowed to build the sidewalks above the mean sea level.
      • yacks, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6so do we have elevated walkways in New Orleans?
      • jattea, on 12/01/2008, -0/+28So in Denver, they have to dig a mile down to pave the walkways? And then climb up mile-high staircases to get to their houses and stores?

        The US is weird.
      • JaredXM, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Not at sea level, just above it.
      • billbugger, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2What about in Death Valley where it's 282 feet below sea level?
    • vodkataime, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Venice suffered its worst flooding in 22 years as water in the Italian city rose to more than 1.5 metres (five feet) deep BEFORE BEGINNING TO RECEDE.

      Get my drift?
    • nofx1510, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1she is on a elivated walkway that is about 3 feet tall.
  • andyb747, on 12/01/2008, -3/+50would it be a bigger disaster if it completely dried up ?
    • Matticus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9Can you imagine that headline?

      "Venice, Italy hit with Evaporation"
    • h2g242, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1lol. dugg
  • Opiebreath, on 12/01/2008, -21/+26I heard Venice smells like poop.

    Truth?
    • SenorBudd, on 12/01/2008, -12/+16Don't trust everything a 4yr-old tells you.
      Poop?
      • Opiebreath, on 12/01/2008, -1/+16That because of the constant flooding the piping system is rusted through in a lot of areas and thus the water is a bit... tinged with sewer water.

        Poop.
      • spepin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4It smells like a sewer.
    • Balanced, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Don't know, but I've heard it can be a nit ripe in the summer.
      • alpharaptor, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1there is a saying in my home town of stamford, ct, 'it smells like shippan in the summer'. there is a sewage treatment plant down the road and in the summer with the wind in the right direction it's a powerful stink.
      • frequentFlyer, on 12/02/2008, -1/+3What unit of measurement is a "nit"?
      • myz540, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2@frequentflyer
        A nit is a unit of luminance

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nit_%28unit%29
    • CrushThemTorg, on 12/01/2008, -1/+41The canals of Venice sometimes back up into the sewer system, so it can take a certain charming aroma.

      Most cities in Italy (at least the ones I've been to) have fairly ancient plumbing, which can sometimes smell a bit. It's not quite a ***** smell like someone just took a dump in front of you, but a smell that you'll recognize as a sanitation processes.

      The real annoyances in Italy are transit strikes, organized crime (in the south) and Romany thieves in the tourist areas. Compared to that, the occasional whiff of toilet tank is nothing. Despite all that, it's still a really damn beautiful place.
    • Flooded, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6Some of the canals do - like the ones used to ferry the garbage skiffs - but for the most part, no, it smells like the sea.
      • Opiebreath, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5That's good, I want to visit there some day.
    • mattrh, on 12/01/2008, -0/+20I heard poop smells like venice
    • phike, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3mmmmm....Venice
    • xsidekick409, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Didn't notice it when I was there this summer, but I was only there for two days and they might have been a good two days.
    • GorfTron, on 12/02/2008, -6/+3Italians smell like poop. There are Italians in Venice.
    • Fixion, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1It didn't stink when I was there, but that was about 6 years ago. The city is beautiful.
  • RHCPHan, on 12/01/2008, -26/+0I'd be laughing if someone said something like: 0hmyg4wd! 1t's f4k3!!

    Quite shocking though!
    • Medicamusic, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9i cant begin to understand your state of mind
    • MCJackhammer, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2"0hmyg4wd! 1t's f4k3!!"

      ROFLMAO!
  • petaganayr, on 12/01/2008, -12/+3This is like saying that US has been in recession since December 2007.
  • aftern9ne, on 12/01/2008, -17/+2Time to pick up and move, dimwits!
    • headphonelove, on 12/02/2008, -1/+2I bet that's EXACTLY what you said both times Bush got "elected"! Maybe some people, wherever they happen to be from, are actually genuinely interested in saving their much-loved, lifelong homes.
  • specialK16, on 12/01/2008, -11/+5Anyone remembers Venice from Tomb Raider 2? As a matter of fact, anyone remembers the credits from TR2? Bunch of highly detailed Lara Croft pics.... ooooohhh those were good times.
  • Oxidizer, on 12/01/2008, -1/+69At least they have lots of boats.
    • ophello, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4My god,everyone in these photos look so relaxed. "NAW man! just a little water! Wont hurt ya!"
    • diggimator, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2The boat workers are on strike.
  • choopie911, on 12/01/2008, -14/+174Holy *****, I was just there:
    http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5743/img2455av9 ...

    I can't even imagine how much water damage flooding like that must cause.
    • choopie911, on 12/01/2008, -3/+76I didn't think it was possible to be dugg down for posting a related picture and comment as neutral as that.
      • SirChasm, on 12/01/2008, -65/+10You're being dugg down because no one cares whether or not you were just there.
      • MasterGrief, on 12/01/2008, -3/+45Clearly, you haven't been on digg long enough.

        I dugg you, at least.
      • alicefoto, on 12/01/2008, -2/+18that's kind of rude, chasm.
      • 2of8, on 12/01/2008, -15/+3How about for posting an extremely oversized JPG for the needs? :P

        Not to worry, no dig downs came from me.
      • SDL486, on 12/01/2008, -8/+9I'm surprised he got dugg up that much.
    • sparkey182, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2not that much because it happens every year around this time. They have giant air raid type alarms that tell everyone in the morning that it is a flood day.
    • macattak420, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3dude that one building is shining while everything else is in shadow... weird but intresting

      on topic: I didnt know that, that many people were in that square at one time.
      • choopie911, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Theres another tall building on the other side that was blocking the sunlight at the base of the other building, and yeah, it's San Marco's square, its one of the busiest areas in Venice.
    • ragley, on 12/02/2008, -0/+8you the old grey haired lady?
      • dlite922, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2this is dugg, she is most definitely not the blonde chick.
    • Culero, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1found waldo!
    • paradisetonight, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1so we have you to blame for the flooding
  • xsecretfiles, on 12/01/2008, -9/+1which raises the question what was was born first the water flood or the city?
  • twotimesthru, on 12/01/2008, -3/+51I would be scared as a tourist... not knowing where the ground stopped and the canal begins...
    • griz, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4That's the first thing I thought of when I say people walking around.
    • pyper, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9They put red and white tape up along the canals to indicate the edge, you can see it in the picture of the Rialto bridge.
    • dlite922, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1rent a damn boat?
  • seandfeeney, on 12/01/2008, -8/+2sux for those people who planned their honeymoon in Venice....
    • MCJackhammer, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Nah, they just get a taller view of the town.
  • Chahrlie5, on 12/01/2008, -7/+21After decades of flooding they're only NOW starting to build flood gates?

    Holland took care of their problem a long time ago. Guess Italian work ethic isn't as good as northern Europe's.
    • blueswannabe, on 12/01/2008, -3/+2Tell me ur being sarcastic? Holland reclaimed that land from the sea, the Italians built a city on the water, Holland didn't do the same thing. Nor can the Italians, without F*cking a lot of ***** up.
      • Chahrlie5, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Holland built a city well below sea level.
      • blueswannabe, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Yes 'well below sea level' but not on the ***** water, which is what Venice is! How am I getting dugg down for pointing this stupidity out? The dutch reclaimed the land, then built on DRY LAND not what the Italians did, sheesh!
    • m3mn0n, on 12/02/2008, -1/+1They build better cars. And they invented Pizza.

      So STFU.
  • clankster, on 12/01/2008, -1/+124Oh crap. I think I left the faucet running in my hotel this morning.
    • ShadowdStranger, on 12/02/2008, -1/+14Then go catch it.
    • MCJackhammer, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Well, here's the reason for the smell...crapping in the faucet: big faux pas.
  • sanosuke001, on 12/01/2008, -3/+18Doesn't the city flood every year? And they know when it's coming? And they prepare for it?

    Yeah, stop being so dramatic.
    • cheechman85, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1Yes but I guess you neglected to read the headline that said "RECORD FLOODING"
      • mousky, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Which headline said "RECORD FLOODING"?
      • regeya, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1I'm with mousky. "Worst flooding in 22 years" does NOT, I repeat, NOT, equal a headline that says, "RECORD FLOODING"

        Mama mia.
  • tjolley, on 12/01/2008, -2/+28Um..Venice floods multiple times a year..it's expected. This is not news, this is just pointing out the very well known issues the city has.

    It has gotten much worse since they dredged out the channels to allow cruise ships to dock, but Venice flooding? That's like saying it's news when the sun comes up.
    • Mightbiteyou, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8its news until the next, terrorist attack, election, or celebrity divorce. its not easy to fill 24 hours of news on 5 different networks
    • steinjake, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2the surprising thing is that it rarely ever floods this badly. 20 years ago Venice flooded less than 20 times a year. Now it floods about 100 times a year. Minor storms cause major damage
    • ceredron, on 12/01/2008, -3/+1also, just wait until the ice caps melt. About 21 meters of water will rise up from the ocean (just do the calculations, it's pretty easy and simple (the icecaps cover 3% of the world's surface area and are 3 km deep or so, and the density of ice and water are similar)). So Venice will actually have to act, and soon. It's going to have to raise several meters, or perhaps just become uninhabitated, or people will live only on the upper floors, and there will be a ghost city underwater. Either way, Venice is going to have to change, and quickly... these floods will get worse.
      • willrs, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1uhh, that's the most retarded thing i've ever read. judging by this picture
        http://ecoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/polar ...
        it says that 20 percent of the northern ice cap has melted in the last ~30 years
        yet, in the last 30 years the average sea level rise has been ~5cm
        at that rate it would take hundreds of years to reach 21 m
        i think Venice has some time.
      • ceredron, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1I don't feel like arguing this universally acknowledged fact, but just so you can learn some geography, the antarctic makes up about 90% of the world's glaciers. The Arctic melting, yes, has only done about 6-8 cm, but that's because all the ice in the arctic makes up a small fraction of the ice on this planet.

        >.>
      • regeya, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1"the antarctic makes up about 90% of the world's glaciers."

        A good thing the ice cap in Antarctica is growing, then.

        http://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Antarctic_Ice_She ...

        And before anyone says it...I defy you to find some way I am in any way denying climate change by pointing out a link that states local climate change that is contrary to the "global warming" thread of thought. Earth's climate changes. Only an unthinking idiot could deny that.
  • SenorBudd, on 12/01/2008, -2/+16I only see a 15ft woman swashing about.
    • mecharabbit, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6Her 4'11" husband is walking right beside her.
  • number2jcb, on 12/01/2008, -10/+3I wonder how fema is going to eff this up too.
    • bluedostoevsky, on 12/01/2008, -2/+5FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency
      Federal as in the United States Federal Government
      Venice is in Italy
  • hokeywebb22, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5that sucks. I went to Europe a few summers back and Venice was my favorite city.
    • jakatak, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5I love Venice. It my second favorite place to visit........ My favorite is Atlantis.
    • Branyers, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Venice is the most enchanting place I've ever been.
    • dsoldier, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1It sucks more, because I just booked a flight to Milan for this friday and planned on taking a train to Venice one day. Oh well, guess I'll just spend more time stalking hot Italian models in Milan.
      • jakatak, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1looks like you'll be taking a boat to Venice instead.
  • scanman20, on 12/01/2008, -1/+26Shouldn't the title be, "Venice Under 5 *More* Feet of Water as City is Flooded"?
  • IphtashuFitz, on 12/01/2008, -9/+4Boot FAIL:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/w ...

    She's gonna get soaked when she climbs down...
    • MazdaEric, on 12/01/2008, -1/+15Maybe that nice bottom of hers will keep her afloat :P God I heart Italian women
    • Lupich, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1My logic assumes shes up there to take a picture, you know, the thing you're looking at now?
  • Dojjah, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7How does that woman know where the sidewalk ends and the waterway begins? If she stepped a few feet to the right, when she plummit into the deeper waterway?
    • Gutterpunk, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3That's what I though!

      When I went there, I came close to taking a dip in the canals a couple of times, especially at night (and drunk. I was a tourist after all). I can't imagine going around that town and not seeing the floor.

      That pic is especially scary :
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/w ...

      That's the Rialto and you can see the canal because of the security tape. But I assume that they didn't tape the whole town like this.
  • Number23, on 12/01/2008, -1/+24If you have ever been to Venice, you know that there are two kinds of people there:
    1. Tourist
    2. People who sell things to tourist.

    Apart from the tourist areas (Rialto, San Marco, Grand Canal) the city if virtually deserted since no one can afforded the cost of propping up a home.

  • Mookie5, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5Maybe Venice is a little cleaner now.
    • jakatak, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Mafia must be pissed with all the dead bodies rising to the surface.
      • AaronCo, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6Dead bodies? What dead bodies... we don't see no stinkin' dead bodies. And you don't either.

      • blueswannabe, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2It reminds me, I need this knife.
        I'm taking this, okay? Just for a while.

        The poor thing.

        We hit the deer and his paw...
        What do you call it? The paw.

        - The hoof.
        - Got caught in the grill.

        I got to hack it off.
        Ma, it's a sin to leave it there.
        I'll bring the knife back.
      • MCJackhammer, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1LOL....wut?
  • baconz, on 12/01/2008, -0/+14Giorgio Napolitano doesn't care about bla......um Italian people.
  • jerrycan, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1I feel like listening to a little Spirit of the West right now.
  • JohnnyHaff, on 12/01/2008, -2/+3Why are they walking through the water? Don't they have Gondolas?
  • Funpolice2050, on 12/01/2008, -1/+48In other news the Sahara dessert is as dry as a bone.
    • aherman, on 12/01/2008, -0/+52Sahara dessert? Sounds delicious!!
    • Gutterpunk, on 12/01/2008, -4/+2Worst. Analogy. Ever.

      A better one would be if the Sahara was on fire, not just "dry". Venice is not "wet" or flooded that often.
  • lfrankow, on 12/01/2008, -1/+67http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_009177680 ...

  • derekmas10, on 12/01/2008, -7/+3all that water and not a Goldolier to be found.
    • banksbiscuit, on 12/02/2008, -1/+2damn, you messed that up. that was your one moment of comment glory, and you ruined it.
    • WHUFCIrons2, on 12/02/2008, -1/+1Fail.
  • tkcom, on 12/01/2008, -8/+2I bet Al Gore will be all over this.
  • eclasssystems, on 12/01/2008, -1/+8Ah Venice.
  • junkneo, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3You mean the rest of Venice.
  • protodon, on 12/01/2008, -6/+1Now what I wanna know is where that bitch was when Venice started flooding because I have a sneaking suspicion that it didn't sneak up on her and that bitch jumped off her step right into it.
  • ninjasandshiz, on 12/01/2008, -8/+0anyone else notice how tall that woman is.
  • CosmosCR, on 12/01/2008, -5/+3On the bright side, traffic congestion is way down.
    • Gutterpunk, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Venice has a ban on anything with wheels since ages... There is no road to speak of in that town, and most bridges crossing the canals have stairs.

      So yeah... your joke sucks :)
      • regeya, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1So...um...to be "traffic" the objects in questions have to be cars or trucks?

        You've just singlehandedly changed an industry. Henceforth, air traffic controllers will be known as air congestion controllers.
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