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Venice Flooding Is Worst in a Decade; Severe Weather in Italy ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/world/europe/venice-floods-italy.html
‎Oct‎ ‎30‎, ‎2018·Venice, built on a lagoon of the Adriatic on Italy's northeastern coast, has always been vulnerable to flooding, and the system of barriers is supposed to offer some protection as global warming ...
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I refuse to go to a new york slimes website.
But the blurb tells us everything we need to know.
1.) "Worst in a Decade" - In other words they have
had worse not more than ten years ago.
2.) Venice, built on a lagoon of the Adriatic on Italy's northeastern coast, has always been vulnerable to flooding, - -
Take out the phrase in the middle and one gets
"Venice has always been vulnerable to flooding".
In other words, the hypesters, spin-meisters, and liars are trying to
convince us that a BIG lie is a truth.
Do NOT believe them.
Zim.

Mad Poet Strikes Again.