“Venice Floods Because of Highest Tide in 50 Years,” according to a report published two hours ago by the New York Times. “The mayor called for a state of emergency and the closing of all schools after the Italian city was submerged under ‘acqua alta,’ an exceptionally high tide.”
See the live video from national daily La Repubblica embedded below.
Venice and its lagoon are a designated UNESCO heritage site. It’s also a living, breathing city where people go to work and study and parents send their kids to school every day.
It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happening there.
See also coverage on the La Repubblica website (in Italian but the images tell a thousand stories).
Top image via Wikipedia Creative Commons (2008).
Do Bianchi 
This is so sad to see. We have flooding here in England too at the moment, in the north of the country, and my heart aches for anyone affected by such an awful calamity.