Venice ‘on Its Knees’ After Historic Floods Create State of Emergency
DEVASTATION
Two people are dead and 85 percent of the iconic city is underwater after the highest tidal flows since 1966, creating unthinkable scenes of the water’s wrath.
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Pedestrians were forced to walk on raised sidewalks to navigate the flooded square in front of St. Mark’s Basilica. The central square floods almost 100 times a year, but water rarely escapes into the rest of the city.