Author: Aydan Corkern
Title: Dealing With Terrible Floods Worldwide

Article: We have had so many different cases of terrible floods in our country the last couple of years that we can’t seem to be able to stay ahead of the clean up that is needed in these areas, but we aren’t the only country that has had terrible floods. One that comes to mind is the flood that hit Venice this December first, and they say that it is the worst flooding that has hit this part of Italy in 22 years. Water stood more than 5 feet deep in the Renaissance city before it started to recede. A change in the direction of wind helped the water start to recede after it had reached 5 feet 2 inches.

Nearly all of the streets of the city were under water by mid-morning, and they had workers setting up elevated walkways so that people could still get around. They also have a new system that will send out messages over loud speakers with warnings and updates and can also send out text massages. Venice has been flooded 50 times between the years of 1993 and 2002 with the worst incident happening in 1966 on the fourth of November and now this one.

Since Italy is surrounded by water, the threat of rising water has always been a problem and now the city officials have been wrestling with a scheme to raise the city’s buildings to try to meet this problem. They are looking into the use of piston-supported poles that are placed at the bottom of each of the structures to lift it by a meter. This project is being called Operation Rialto. As Venice was designated as a World Heritage site, the UNESCO warned it city leaders in 2007 that they are being threatened by climate changes.

As this lifting procedure can take up to months per building to complete, with each of these buildings being raised by at least eight centimeters, it will take a while for each city along the coast to be able to even start this procedure, and then they aren’t really sure that they can do this as of yet, but they are looking into the likelihood of this happening in the near future. If this is done in one city on their coast and this works, then I’m sure that all of the countries around the world will look into this possibility of doing it elsewhere as the means to stop so much damage of low lying waters. Aydan Corkern is a writer of many topics, visit some of her sites, like
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