(16 Nov 2019) Venetian shop owners returned to their businesses to assess damage and begin the clean-up, a day after St Mark's Square was closed due to exceptionally high tidal waters which swept through most of the lagoon city's already devastated centre. Despite sunny skies, the city remained on edge on Saturday due to possibly more wind-propelled high tidal waters during the weekend.
The city was struck on Tuesday by devastating floods, the worst in decades.
By late Saturday morning water was rising again in St Mark's Square and the forecast for Sunday was worse.
The tide reached a peak at 1.15 metres (3.7 feet) above sea level at noon on Saturday.
Late on Tuesday, water levels in Venice reached 1.87 metres (6 feet, 1 inch) above sea level, the highest flooding since 1966.
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