Historic Venice flooding.

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14. Venice hit by another big high tide today (Friday)

154 cm high (5.1 feet) - not as high as Tuesday's 187 cm (6.1 feet) -- but still put 70% of Venice underwater and "fraying the nerves of locals who faced yet another large-scale clean-up operation."

"Visiting here you see that the disaster is much bigger than you think when you watch the images on television," he said.

... with the mean sea level estimated to be more than 20 cm higher than it was a century ago (that's 7.9" = 0.66 feet).

... A flood barrier designed to protect Venice from high tides is not expected to start working until the end of 2021, with the project plagued by the sort of problems that have come to characterize major Italian infrastructure programs -- corruption, cost overruns and prolonged delays.

More: https://news.yahoo.com/venice-hit-another-ferocious-high-090317139.html