High tide floods Venice as dike on demand wasn’t activated

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High tides flooded St. Mark’s Square in Venice on Tuesday, propelled by winds that were stronger than predicted and an experimental system of inflatable barriers wasn’t activated to prevent water from invading the lagoon city. The system, while still in an experimental phase, gets activated when high tides are predicted to reach at least 1.3...

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