...Venice usually gets the headlines, whether there is a real problem or not. The foreign press loves to dramatize us splashing around in the Piazza San Marco, but Im not sure that it has drawn appropriate attention to the cataclysm which has driven Genova to its knees, so I am making a point of telling you here.
Another reason I bring it up is to repeat one of my essential points about water in Venice compared to water in other places, which is that you cant compare them.
So I will summarize it here and I hope wont drone on about it any more this year.
Acqua alta is not flooding. Flooding is what happened in Florence, and in Genova, and other places I wont list, and it often involves destruction and death.
We get wet. They get killed. On November 4 in Genova, there were at least seven victims. One woman was crushed between two cars being swept away down what used to be a street. Another woman and her two small children were drowned when the crest of the flood caught them in the entryway of their apartment building before they could make it to the staircase. And so on.
Thank You , That makes me feel a lot better
I'm just trying to figure out where we want to fly through, because the fares are about the same. We have not had good luck with Dulles, so I think it will be either Atlanta or JFK.
We are flying in through JFK and get in early on the 15th and then fly back out on the 24th through Philadelphia. NOW it feels real!!!
