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Venice, Italy is currently in a state of emergency due to its second worst flooding ever recorded. The flooding has taken an elderly man’s life, caused businesses and hotels to shutdown, threatened delicate works of art located in historic areas, and electrical and fire hazards due to short circuiting. Most importantly, St. Mark’s Basilica was flooded for the second time in history. Last year there were high tides and it was said that St. Mark’s Basilica had aged 20 years because of the high tides but with the extreme flooding this year it is in danger of aging even more than that. Venice has always been an area prone to flooding but the frequency of flooding has had a significant increase in the last 20 years. This is said to be due to “overtourism” and climate change. Both of these things have worn away on the banks surrounding the city.

I chose this article because it is another climate change article and there has been a lot of those lately. This one is a little more serious because it is one of the most visited cities in the world and has some very important venues like St. Mark’s Basilica. The article does a good job of insetting tweets and pictures to show what the flooding looks like instead of just writing about it. This also was a little more serious because there was a death related to the flooding. One ting that I personally thought was different was how when the author inserted tweets, the tweets were not in English ad it didn’t have a translation for the tweets. I wanted to know what they said not just look at the pictures.

https://www.mic.com/p/venice-italy-floods-at-historic-levels-plunge-the-city-into-state-of-emergency-19347959