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To: epicure who wrote (66861)	4/15/2018 9:39:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362054

Says rain here, mostly after 11, but it's pretty clear at the moment, with some high clouds to the east. There's some fog below me.

To: epicure who wrote (66861)	4/15/2018 2:23:14 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362054

Rome wasn’t built in a day but these days it feels as if it may collapse in one Tobias Jones Blame the rain, the government or just geology, but extreme weather events are on the rise in Italy So far this year, Rome has suffered an astonishing 44 sinkholes. Every two or three days, a new crater appears in the Italian capital’s asphalt. They’re normally the size of a small room, a few metres wide and a few metres deep. In February, though, six cars were sucked down into the bowels of the earth when 50 metres of via Livio Andronico fell away, causing entire buildings to be evacuated. It’s not a new phenomenon: there have been an average of 90 sinkholes a year in Rome since 2010. In 2013, there were 104 and 2018 will surely surpass even that record. The problem is clearly getting worse: the streets are beginning to look like black emmenthal and everyone in Italy is wondering why the earth seems, in the words of the Jewish prophet Isaiah, “to stagger like a drunken man”. Some blame the rain. Romans are used to wearing sunglasses all winter, but this has been the wettest six months in living memory. There have been plenty of what are melodramatically called bombe d’acqua, water bombs. In September last year, flooded subways were closed as rivers cascaded down the escalators and stations became huge shower rooms with water gushing through ceiling cracks. Thousands of cars were in water up to their wing mirrors. Message 31573204