Venice Floods Every Year
Every year Venice, Italy, experiences seasonal flooding, which is known as acqua alta. Still, the city always finds a way to adapt to the rising water levels.
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This might have been fun as a kid but now not so much.
This looks like a terrible experience.
I can’t even imagine how much in property damage
I googled, Venice elevation is 1 metre. Which means its too low from sea level.
@@hunters6940 they must be adapted to it, a yearly occurrence is enough for everyone to think about the future and design their infrastructure around it
It's still fun They shouldn't have built a city literally below sea-level Next to the sea..
Um, what about water damage?
That's was I was thinking. Do they have a mold problem too?🤔
@@spideywhiplash Venice actually has an issue with smell, which has a reason to do with the natural bacteria in the water of the Venetian Lagoon. A lot of the city is stone, and I assume they treat their stone during or after floods. It’s actually a small misunderstanding, because when water seeps through rock it’s actually salt deposits that appear on the surface, not mold. On other materials other than stone and masonry, yes, mold can appear if not taken care of.
They make so much money from tourism , repair is no problem
@@myparentsaredivorced4573 but can't the sea water erode the stone foundation? I've always wondered how Venice is still standing, especially now with the flooding
@@Fwootgummi well Venice is actually build on wooden stilts and stone pillars and the water flows under the city, but parts of the city have concrete pumped into places where buildings are starting to collapse and the stilts are breaking down
The mold, the mold, the mold. I cant
In Venice. You assimilate with the mold. 😂
@CaptSoapy you just mold with it? 😌
It’s definitely all mostly stone so mold isn’t as big of an issue as it would be with wood or plastered walls.
@@FaizCaliph no expert, idk
@@FaizCaliph mold can still grow
"what causes the city to flood" "The flooding has name"
Right!! I was waiting for the explanation and she never said one lol
Lots of Water is the answer
Global climate change
Google it..they are also building something against it..
@@valentinapejic7023 you just haven't understood my comment have you lol
This video makes flooding look like a quirky, but integral aspect of Venetian life instead of the economically and socially crippling menace that it is
Yeah right they they didn't even talk about how they desperately want to stop its encroachment lol
Ye. I live in the coastal area,not from venice, but every monsoon season there's always floods. Its not pleasant at all. Cell towers stop working, restaurants close, if you are outside going home gets 10x times harder, there's a lot of water damage, the work you have to do to clean just your home after a flood is too much and not to mention absolutely wretched stench that you get after a flood.
@@just-another-human you would think people would build buildings higher or on stilts to compensate for it
@@srproductions8798 yeah instead of just building the flood gates. Idk how structurally sound that would be in Italy but there are several places around that world that have their homes build on "stilts". Just look at some Asian housing in areas that experience monsoons and flooding.
@@MidnightHedgehog365 we have houses built 10+ feet off the ground in south Louisiana. Guess we just adapted to the floods
"What causes the city to flood?" Proceeds to talk about everything else, except the reason for the floods.
And what would that be??? Are you going to suggest........"Climate Change"? Dude, this has occurred for as long as there has been a Venice.
@@gonedeep43 ... did you jsut make up an argument out of nothing so you could win it?
@@Elivorp Just asking a question, and cutting off the argument before it starts.
@@gonedeep43 ...so, yes.
@@gonedeep43 so yeah... you did....
"What causes the city to flood?" Proceeds to give no explanation
Water.
She really did though- seasonal high tides.
Global warming.the greed of certain types of people who will destroy the world for selfish motives and a desire to pretend theyre excellent business people
Acqua Alta, high tide. F for co.prehension skills
@@heatheroriordan5800thanks Sherlock Holmes
“But, What causes the city to flood?” “High water” God damn that was informative
Well, what else? 😂
😂😂😂
High tide ig
"What causes the city to flood?" I'm guessing the water. Unfortunately, scientists will never know for sure, because a certain youtuber didn't answer her own question.
They literally said it’s because it lower than the ocean level
@@robloxqueenhumblesquad655 Okay they literally never said that though? It's a short video, it doesn't take but a few seconds to go through and confirm it's never stated.
@@robloxqueenhumblesquad655 Ok but then why is it seasonal and not year-round?
@@gummy5862 Have you forgotten about monsoons?
@@Shar3dAccount I don’t know, wasn’t talked about in the video. 😴
The buildings must have amazing foundations
Yeap, the amazing thing about it: Venice build on wood beams. This wood never gets on air, so there is no way it to damage
Just almost anything in Italy is built amazingly well.
@@happyfeet86 so well that it floods most of the year 😃😃😃 I've been to Venice and I adore it, but couldn't help myself.
It's actually slowly sinking
@@taliiix34 yes I know it floods. My comment is about how buildings are structurally built in Italy to last this long. It has nothing to do with the yearly sinking and flooding which is also more of a "ground" foundations because nature.
"We've seen iconic pictures every year" I don't know why and I usually don't have a problem but for some reason her voice annoyed the heck out of me. My opinion btw.
It’s because her voice is awful
Agreed.
When life gives you lemons, Venice eats them raw
The world: omg a 2 inch flood, we're gonna drown Venice: ah no biggie, rain boots will do the job
“floating city” more like sinking city
Lovecraft already took the name so they had to change it
Mexico City would like to have a word with you
It will be gone by the next 10-20 years.
@@Stachelbeeerchen no it won’t
@@asherrice5289 your opinion. But I think they cant keep it afloat for much longer. The basic structure is already really stressed and global warming (and with it rising sea) will only increase for the next years. But hay it would be a cool diving attraction once it happens. (-All the skeletons that wanted to stay behind.)
I'm suspicious at how upbeat this is🤨
*being Hispanic* *hears acqua alta* My exact thought after: “It’s just called high water” 😂
So you hear it in Italian, and translate it into English using your Hispanic background?
@@danielz1666 pretty much, it’s not that weird tbh. Spanish and Italian both stem from Latin🤷
Having a prosthetic leg… this made me rust just watching this video
haha👍
LMAOOO
your just walkin through the water and in 30 seconds your prosthetic just disintegrates into rust🤣🤣(not hate just a joke people)
it’s not made of aluminum???
@@satvikarora5813 Any metal can rust (the most commonly known/seen being iron and copper); though some are more inclined to it than others.
Extreme mass tourism, sky high prices, apparently no sewage system and regular floodings. Sounds like a great place to live :-)
If we compare to any other big famous cities for it would be the same, except that Venice's sewage does not pollute since it's water in canals are very salty or the water in canals would have turned brown a long time ago have you seen the how clear is the water? And also floodings happen every year in every countries. By 2050 many other cities are gonna disappear underwater aswell.
@@anastasio_giorghio yeah their most attractive things is their water tho...
Lol 😆 🤣 😂
@@anastasio_giorghio you're delusional if you think their sewage "doesn't pollute". It goes into the bay and causes a huge amount of harm to the ocean.
Especially with parts of it literally sinking
YOOO It's like water seven arc from one piece!!! SO COOL!
Reminds me of my town, Houston. We are insane when it comes to floods 😂 We once had a family bring out an inflatable raft and just row down the block and we just played till we had to go back in.
I remember after Harvey, kids had weird rashes from playing in the water. Flood water is fun but disgusting.
hey, how are you doing!
"What causes the city to flood?" Water, probably
Thank you for this. 👍🏼😆
🤣🤣🤣
As a dutch person, this makes me feel uncomfortable on a genetic level
Why?
@@hazelbasil6451 dry af, probably
@@hazelbasil6451 the dutch pioneered a way to reclaim land from the sea using dikes and windmills in the 1500s. it's the only country whose borders are growing because they are adding more landmass from creating land
@@ekekekekk not really, plenty of countries do that
@@cooltwittertag I think the Netherlands is 50 percent reclaimed land, the Dutch certainly have done more land reclamation then most, especially with their small size and they’re still doing it to this day
no thank you, i live in the Philippines
Yeah! Ours is even better because our flood water is chocolate-flavored and if you're lucky you get to see floating poops
Ahh yes beautiful Venice. The city of Wetness , the buildings o’ moisture , the town with floating brown , the flume of de doo . Gorgeous
"The city is flooding!" "Oh good. Tourists will LOVE it!"
I was thinking I’d love to visit during the flooding.
It’s gross so much mildew and mold if your not used to it it’s disgusting
“The Floating City” more like the “The Sinking City”
More like the stinking city....
Sinking or rising sea levels?
@@MyName-sk8wl Both actually.
I like the part where she explain how the flood occured.
That’s wild! I love how they make the best of it.
"The best place to experience the flood" lol
"what causes the floods? High waters." Oh gee thanks for that illuminating insight.
Haha! She goes from "what causes the city to flood?" To directly to "it has a name"😂
i don't know if you want the answer but it's literally because of the proximity to bodies of water and mostly rain or another natural causes (hurricanes, melting of snow and things like that) and the bodies of water overflowing. for example let's say that near your house was a river that was covered up to build the houses, when it rains the water will flow the same as it did before the river was covered up so that area is more likely to get flooded if the rain is too heavy. sorry if I didn't explained it well, English is not my first language and sometimes I get confused.
Venice is also just… sinking. Its because od how the city was built on wooden posts driven into the sea floor and those rot/sink/compress over the years.
The city was built on stilts and they are sinking
Its all an illusion. The reality of italy’s lack of desire to make things better in venice is catching up. Its all fun and games until it all sinks
Free street cleaning
From somewhere where floods are normal, actually no, it just makes everything dirty with dirty water getting in places. Garbage floating everywhere, street trash getting inside homes and shops, etc.
The two times I visited Venice no floods. I visited in March/ April.
@@reeti5958 Yes that’s gross and that guy was just diving in! Lots of infections you could get that way yuck
hey, how are you doing
How is it a 'floating' city if it's flooding? Surely the presence of flooding indicates a lack of floating?
Big brain time
If it was floating it wouldn't stay still🤦♂️
It is probably called that just because of the water. Maybe the name is not so technical..
@@aletesyomweemba5156 ikr 😂😂
Sinking city.
How do they go to toilet?
That god, there's no alligators or sharks
Oh boy a historical land that's slowly sinking into the ground whilst being trampled by millions of tourists yearly, yay so fun and quirky
Laughed out loud
Like it wasn't sinking ever since it was built.
i just wanna know how u feel abt MCRs recent drop?
How are you going to blame the tourist and not the government for doing something about it?
isn’t every land historic
"Iconic" ? Did she really describe flooding pictures as " iconic"?
The city basically has been flooding since it's inception. The flooding is "iconic" in that it defines the city, but not really iconic in it's visual appearance.
@@AbyssalSoda honestly I think the flooding is also visually iconic
yes she did
Yes, are you struggling with the definition?
yes, because they are iconic. do you not know what iconic means?
When did it start flooding?
swimming in it?? 🤢
"And this is why" -proceeds to _not_ explain why Vapid.
I’ve been there during a flood! They constructed walkways pretty quickly and we went about our day. Granted, it wasn’t as major as some of the clips here, maybe 1-1.5 feet of water, but still, it was an interesting experience!
Do cars get ruined being in high water like that? Or is there not many cars there?
@@amaebarnes amm it's venice, there are no cars, just boats...
Sounds more like the sinking city.
How hard is it to build a dike surrounding the city.
It’s a bummer though. Since who knows how much longer the city is going to be able to sustain itself. The water levels keep increasing each year as well.
Good
Or the pumping of ground water in surrounding areas which was the engineering explanation for decades.
Good
they will stay right there for as long as the tourists keep spending money to take selfies in a city that is almost entirely underwater.
"Why does it flood? Well you see, it floods."
My singing group travelled in Italy and performed there in early June 2002. It had still been flooded in May, like the week before we got there. We were there at the best possible time. If you ever visit there, don’t miss Florian’s Caffe. Pay extra and enjoy a little music with your sandwich.
I guess Venice also becomes one big urinal during aqua alta.
"It's a ninety nine pointa ninety nina percenta pee."
💀💀💀💀 !!¡!!!!! CTFU
Good thing pee is 90 percent water
Mama Mia, Papa pee ah!
With an occasional brown trout floating by.
South Park 😂
Fun fact: an extremely low amount of locals live in Venice compared to regular city populations. The majority of homes their are owned by tourists or people trying to capitalize on the tourist hotspot. And the numbers overall have been declining every year. Currently there's about 50,000 occupants a pretty large fall from the 175,000 fifty or so years ago.
Covid
That makes more sense. I was perplexed considering a population of athlete's foot patients... Seriously, what percentage are diabetics? and my Venn diagram needs numbers for trench foot. Glad it's not as bad as I thought 🤔.
Venice is the new Atlantis
I'll pass.
I don't understand the perky delivery of this. The city is sinking into the ocean. The marsh it's ontop of is compacting and the foundation of the city is crumbling due to the saltwater. The flooding has far surpassed what Venice was built to accommodate. So, it's sinking, eroding, and sea levels are rising due to climate change, but yes let's talk about it like it's just a quirk of the city.
Their definitely trying to to normalize climate change
Two things are true but it's not eroding. The wood is rarely in contact with salt water as it's mostly in the mud, protected from the salt water. The wooden poles that degrade are periodically replaced or repaired, as the ones that are most prone to erosion are the ones on the edges, most affected by tides and water forces to erode the mud that protects them. In the past years venetian ground has risen a little bit actually, as it was figured that the biggest cause of sinking was the mass-pumping of ground water from Marghera (city near Venice), that was emptying the aquifers. They stopped doing that and Venice has gone up about 2cm (1") on average. Some areas settle and do sink though, it's inevitable as the mud compacts. The sea has risen though, that's the biggest problem.
What are you going to do at this point. You either deal with it or you walk away. Venice is far too valuable just to walk away from.
@@FAB1150 Venice is still sinking. If I remember correctly it has sunk a total of 30 cm since it was built.
Are you saying 5% of .04% of the atmosphere is causing sea level rise?
I can’t imagine wanting to live there. Every building must be rife with mold.
Wondering the same thing! We got flooded by a hurricane and mold removal was an issue, so how....?
It's saltwater which is naturally resistant. Plus, the flooding doesn't last very long.
@@randallsmerna384 Didnt the video say september through april? seems like a nice long flood to me
@@salti3155 I think those are the times that it most likely floods but I don't think it's a persistent flood from April through September. I do think it's going to get worse though and not better. I wouldn't want to live there that's for damn sure.
Who the heck wrote the script for this one????
It's called your city is sinking
Venice's unique topography, built on log piles among canals, has made it particularly vulnerable to climate change. Rising sea levels are increasing the frequency of high tides that inundate the 1,600-year-old Italian lagoon city, which is also gradually sinking
hey, how are you doing
I'm amazed on how clean and clear the water.
I have been to there and I can tell you that the sewage is dumped directly into those canals just like it did hundreds of years ago. It’s disgusting! And that guy in saint Mark’s square is swimming in 💩!!! Disgusting!! 🤢🤢🤮
So...venice is water 7 confirmed?
“the floating city” thats called it’s time to find a new place for your culture, i bet you a buck fifty the Black Plague is in those waters somewhere
Think I read somewhere the black plague was from rats.
Idk it's so disrespectful to make it sounds quirky when it's a disaster for so many people
You mean the sinking city
I was lucky I guess. Last time I was in Venezia, in April, flooding kept at bay
The Aqua Laguna is coming...
Heh i guess this will most Cities in another 30-50years.
Stop!!! According to the Climate Change Cultists, we should have been underwater and dead, years ago.
Imagine you're sitting on the toilet, then suddenly the high tide starts rolling in
More like sinking city
Disgusting… poop water!
Great place to swim! 😂
hey- you know it’s not flooded by the water in the sewers right?? i’m italian, and i’ve been a million times to venice, both when it was flooded and when it wasn’t, and it’s just the sea water that rises, a phenomenon called acqua alta as they said, that is literally just the sea water that raises its level, so the city gets flooded. think of it like the netherlands i guess? didn’t amburg get flooded too? (i don’t really know myself, but i heard it did get flooded some times)
I realllyyy doubt that's the case
"floating city" nah that be Atlantis
You mean underwater city?
Floating city? More like sinking city 😘
How sad!
Venice used to be a regular city now it's a floating city and soon it will be a sunken City this is not a prediction it's a threat
And it certainly shouldn’t be talked about in a video with a quirky voice
I mean I don’t suggest making this a heartfelt experience, this Is happening far too much due to climate change and it’s destroying Venice. Insider you should really address this in your video it’s really irresponsible
Kinda sounds like Water 7 of One Piece.
We call that....go with the flow....
Lady: “What causes the city to flood?” Me: “Water?”
Imagine building a city in a river that is prone to flooding and also the destination of most of the city's sewage and having people still be like "omg river city so cool I want to play in the water too"
What do the marathon runners run in?
又是自己製造假象
I was there in the summer of 2014, beautiful place
Was in Rome & other cities in summer 2014, then Austria & Venice in summer 2018
Imagine the mold problems in those walls, ugh no thank you, worked in that industry enough to know whats going on in those buildings
Yeah no European don't use drywall and wood like we do in America
It's brick walls mate, the city wouldn't be standing if it was dry wall
What causes the city to flood? Building it below sea level maybe ? Anyway been there and the water stinks so bad I can’t imagine swimming in it 🤮
I visited Venice many years ago, and I told myself, never again. There is Rome, Milan, Florence…..
Even poor countries are not like this. Very unhealthy and Sick
And I thought I hated Asian restrooms because the floor was always wet😠 Venice would make me go crazy!🤣
"Innovative"? I failed to spot the "innovation".
😮😢😢😢😢
Venice really needs to address this issue with walls that will keep water out
Hire a bunch of Dutch people and they'll solve the problem.
Zentel must be popular here...
imagine the mold
Life goes on in the flooding, wow. They are prepared for this cause it happens do much...im curious on how they get the water out of the flooded shops/hotels?
Surely when the city floods, the sewage is brought to the surface, who’d want to swim in that
I bet that place gas a massive mold problem.
I can’t swim. I can’t go there
Gross - toilet water gets mixed in... swimming in sewage.
That’s 8 months out of 12..no thank you 😂
flood in the winter😢
Ability to whitewash a yearly failure of government into a quaint "it's a feature not a bug" kind of thing. Amazing!