Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]True, but it's getting much, much worse. I've been there when it was ankle deep - the normal "high water". Now it's waist level and getting higher. Businesses can continue in the normal high water but many have had to shut down recently. Tina On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:23 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > Actually this is normal for Venice since its beginning, the city is > virtually at sea level, so high tide plus rain will flood it quite > regularly from what my Italian daughter tells me. > > Gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ric Carter" <ricc at embarqmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:23:30 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [Leica] Venice Under Water > > welcome to global climate change > > ric > > > On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:44 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Quite dramatic: > > > > http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/venice-under-water/100403/ > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com