14 December, 2008

Italy: The Tiber in flood


The picture shows a boat crashing into the Ponte Sant'Angelo in one of the worst high waters Rome has seen for years.


All over the centre of the capital there are marks showing where the high waters reached a century or so ago, most of them at waist height (so this is nothing to do with global warming).


The waters have eased a little now, but the Italian capital was within inches of disaster.

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