Posted in Web Venice flooding: Highest tides in 50 years submerge city … December 2, 2019 Venice authorities said the water level peaked at 1.87 meters, or just over six feet, second only to a record flood in 1966. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/venice-partly-submerged-by-highest-tides-in-half-a-century/2019/11/13/fa36566e-05fa-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html