{"id":129689,"date":"2020-12-09T20:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/high-tide-floods-venice-as-dike-on-demand-wasnt-activated\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T20:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:59:41","slug":"high-tide-floods-venice-as-dike-on-demand-wasnt-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/high-tide-floods-venice-as-dike-on-demand-wasnt-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"#High tide floods Venice as dike-on-demand wasn’t activated"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#High tide floods Venice as dike-on-demand wasn’t activated<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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High tides flooded St. Mark\u2019s Square in Venice on Tuesday, propelled by winds that were stronger than predicted and an experimental system of inflatable barriers wasn\u2019t activated to prevent water from invading the lagoon city.<\/p>\n

The system, while still in an experimental phase, gets activated when high tides are predicted to reach at least 1.3 meters (4 feet, 4 inches). Tuesday\u2019s tide was predicted to reach 1.25 meters. Instead, it kept rising, to a height of 1.38 meters, in late afternoon.<\/p>\n

Some shops were flooded and Venetians waded in water as they scrambled to set out raised walkways. Damage to shops and other business was destined to compound the suffering already sharply felt in Venice\u2019s economy by tourism largely washed away by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the weather is freer than us. It does what it wants,\u201d Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said ruefully, referring to the stronger-than-expected winds that whipped across the Adriatic from Croatia\u2019s coastline.<\/p>\n

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People wade their way through water in flooded St. Mark\u2019s Square following a high tide, in Venice, Italy.<\/figcaption>
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In July, Venice successfully carried out a trial run of the ambitious anti-flood system, which consists of 78 barriers that can be inflated when needed to rise from the sea like a kind of dike-on-demand. The system is dubbed Moses after the Biblical figure, who, in the Old Testament account, parted the waters of the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Just over a year ago, Venice experienced its worst flooding in more than 50 years when the water reached 1.87 meters (6 \u00bd feet) in the city.<\/p>\n

The new moveable barrier system is designed to protect the city from tides as high as three meters (10 feet).<\/p>\n

A tide of 1.20 meters (four feet) was predicted for Wednesday and workers were arriving to prepare to activate the barrier system hours before then, the mayor said.<\/p>\n

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The area around Rialto bridge is flooded following high tide, in Venice, Italy.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working to activate Moses tonight in view of the peak prediction for tomorrow (Wednesday),\u201d Brugnaro said. The barriers would likely be activated shortly after midnight, he said.<\/p>\n

Noting that the system was still in the experimental stage, the mayor said \u201cmore rapid protocols\u201d to activate it were needed, in view of Tuesday\u2019s flooding.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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