VENICE High water emergency in Venice, at 10.55 pm on Tuesday the high water reached 187 centimeters. And at 11 pm it reached 190. The second peak in the city's history, immediately after the "granda" water of 1966 when the tide reached 192. Hours of anxiety and fear in the Lagoon with violent gusts of wind at 100 kilometers per hour heavy rain and above all high water that no one hoped to see.
A victim in Pellestrina
The strong wave of bad weather also caused a victim, a 78-year-old man in Pellestrina. To cause the death of the elderly, according to preliminary information, an electrical short circuit triggered by the tide that had entered his home. The carabinieri are on the spot, to carry out checks on the exact dynamics of the accident.
Venice, high water: it is an emergency in the city
The alarm
The alarm came after days of bad weather and forecasts from the tide center of the Municipality of Venice that had already triggered the emergency plan: according to experts and mathematical models on Tuesday evening and on Wednesday, 145 centimeters would have been reached . But the situation fell in the afternoon. In the evening the dramatic deterioration: with text messages the 60 thousand subscribers to the service were reached and at the same time all the social channels of the lagoon administration were updated: first it seemed that the water could stop at 160, but in less than ten minutes the Tide Center has issued a new bulletin: 170. Then the 190. A level never reached since the sixties.
Suspended links
Actv immediately suspended the navigation service, except for the connections to the islands but reaching them for the pilots was a business. With high waves and gusty winds, surfing Tuesday night was practically impossible.
Closed schools
At 10.50 pm, following an urgent meeting of the Municipality, the Prefecture and the police, it was decided to close all the schools. Among the streets and fields, the owners of activities and businesses did not abandon their premises to save everything that could be raised. And a chain of social solidarity was also taken: "Those who live on the ground floor, come to Piazzale Roma in twenty minutes, take you to the mainland", read the dozens of posts that followed the evolution of the situation with alarm.
The islands
The situation on the islands and along the coast is also dramatic. At the Lido, water has invaded streets, shops and houses while the wind has torn trees all over the land. At 10 pm the blackout. Terrestrial in Pellestrina when the waves have passed the protective lunate of the Lagoon. Fear, in eastern Venice, due to the Piave flood: the sea no longer received water. Significant damage along the coast. In Caorle the flooding of the Rio was feared as it enters the town center and arrives at the Fishing Port. Here the water level has exceeded the street level and reached the protective wall from which infiltrations have in any case flooded roads and the area adjacent to the port, coming to touch Piazza Papa Giovanni. In Jesolo, the sea has crossed the beach and reached the road in several places: Piazza Milano, Aurora and towards the lighthouse. In via Bafile, even pine trees have fallen under the pressure of the wind. The area of Cortellazzo is also affected with flooding of the sea in various parts of the pine forest, various structures damaged near the beach. Immediate intervention of Municipalities and Region that activated the Civil Protection crisis unit. Wednesday urgent summit of President Luca Zaia and the mayor of Venice and the metropolitan city Luigi Brugnaro.
Appeal of the mayor to the Government
«Venice continues to be distressed by the exceptional high waters. Last year, the same year, "said the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, in a video filmed tonight in Piazza San Marco and broadcast via social media. "We ask the government to participate – continues Brugnaro – and to understand at what level is the organization of the Mose, because here we really risk not making it anymore. Tomorrow we will ask for a state of calamity. We ask that they give us a hand because the costs are many. We are here waiting for, unfortunately we have reached a new negative record ".
Crisis unit activated
The President of Veneto, Luca Zaia, has activated the crisis unit of the regional civil protection, where the regional councilor Gianpaolo Bottacin and the director of the regional civil protection, Luca Soppelsa, are operative. The damage caused by the exceptional high water in Venice is being monitored, with very serious repercussions on the entire lagoon, but there are also alarm conditions on the entire Venetian coast, while the situation of some rivers, in particular the Piave, is worrying because the sea does not receive. Connections have been activated with the National Civil Protection Department and with the National Fire Brigade Command. Tomorrow the head of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli, will arrive at the regional operations room in Marghera.
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