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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.
- Surferess, on 12/01/2008, -3/+431OMG! St. Mark's Square is totally pigeon-less! It is a miracle!
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -6/+382Wow, 5 feet of water. Those people in the pictures must be giants.
- pyg13, on 12/01/2008, -12/+301Expected to see that this was from the Onion ... 'Venice Flooding' ... lol
- 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?"
- Trekhawk, on 12/01/2008, -9/+216Venice is the Italian New Orleans, except with fewer plastic bead necklaces.
- 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. - clankster, on 12/01/2008, -1/+124Oh crap. I think I left the faucet running in my hotel this morning.
- dumass4u, on 12/01/2008, -7/+117If thats five feet of water the woman in the picture is about 13 feet tall.
- CrushThemTorg, on 12/01/2008, -0/+96Cue Kanye West saying Silvio Berlusconi doesn't care about Venitian people.
- dr0psy, on 12/01/2008, -1/+87im just wondering why the hell theyre standing in the water in the first place..
- 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.
- Oxidizer, on 12/01/2008, -1/+69At least they have lots of boats.
- lfrankow, on 12/01/2008, -1/+67http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_009177680 ...
- Dumbledorito, on 12/01/2008, -0/+63They have them. They're just carved in marble.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+61she could be walking on stilts. You need to think outside the box like me.
- Dipster, on 12/01/2008, -1/+61Fewer plastic bead necklaces also equals fewer boobies.
- aherman, on 12/01/2008, -0/+52Sahara dessert? Sounds delicious!!
- rivalius13, on 12/01/2008, -0/+51Suck on that Alanis Morrisette.
- twotimesthru, on 12/01/2008, -3/+51I would be scared as a tourist... not knowing where the ground stopped and the canal begins...
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+48In other news the Sahara dessert is as dry as a bone.
- andyb747, on 12/01/2008, -3/+50would it be a bigger disaster if it completely dried up ?
- 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. - 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.
- MasterGrief, on 12/01/2008, -3/+45Clearly, you haven't been on digg long enough.
I dugg you, at least. - andre321, on 12/01/2008, -1/+42They're blatantly wearing stilts.
- redfred18t, on 12/01/2008, -0/+40I'm waiting to see an italian looter with a tub full of wine and cheese
- 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. - humperdeath, on 12/01/2008, -0/+38This is how they clean the pigeon poop form St.Marks from time to time.
- 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? - 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.
- protodon, on 12/01/2008, -0/+30Their genitals are cold.
- 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. - 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. - 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. - scanman20, on 12/01/2008, -1/+26Shouldn't the title be, "Venice Under 5 *More* Feet of Water as City is Flooded"?
- mavroprovato, on 12/01/2008, -1/+25***** thing sucks
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -4/+27DIE
- 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. - vashth3stampede, on 12/01/2008, -0/+23damn, that woman must be like 10 feet tall!
- alpharaptor, on 12/01/2008, -1/+23'Venice is Floodeder'
- ChronicColonic, on 12/01/2008, -4/+24It's all because of global wetting.
- PeninsulaBoy217, on 12/01/2008, -0/+20No, it's called making quicksand. :P
- mattrh, on 12/01/2008, -0/+20I heard poop smells like venice
- alpha19, on 12/01/2008, -3/+22@Dumbledorito:
Or surrounded by chest hair. - Dumbledorito, on 12/01/2008, -0/+17Isn't that called 'making a boat'?
- naturalcauses, on 12/01/2008, -4/+21It did sound like something The Onion would say
- alicefoto, on 12/01/2008, -2/+18that's kind of rude, chasm.
- 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. - 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. -
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