Low Water Again Plagues Venice: Acqua Bassa Redux
Once again entire lines of vaporettos have been stopped and Venetian navigation has been thrown into chaos by the phenomenon of acqua bassa: exceptionally low tides. The problem emerged last month, then diminished over the last couple weeks, only to reemerge yesterday afternoon, when water levels fell under 70 centimeters.
This forced hoards to travel via foot around the city, and was particularly meddlesome given the influx of tourists for "Fat Tuesday", the last day of carnevale. Foundations of a number of palazzi were clearly visible on the Canal Grande, while in some of the smaller canals inside the city, boats literally hung from their mooring posts in the mud.
Very strange. I wanna see the boats hanging.
How terrible for our sweet water ways of Venice.
What's going on?
Posted by: liljiffy | February 09, 2005 at 08:52 PM
How about some pics?
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Alas, I'm not on the scene. If anyone in Venezia has photos, please send them and I'll post.
BTW, your IP address tells me you're in Brazil and you come by frequently. Whereabouts? Drop me a line.
Posted by: anon | February 10, 2005 at 07:26 AM
Al Gore was right! It is Global Warming. Americans caused this and they arn't doing anything about it. Now look at what has happened! They need to fix this NOW!
Posted by: Pippo | February 22, 2008 at 07:38 AM