It sounded as if a train were rumbling through Venice in the predawn hours of St. Patrickâs Day 1985.
Trains still came occasionally to Venice then. Most people who heard the sound that morning simply rolled over and went back to sleep.Â
What sounded like a train that morning turned out to be a tornado.
It left two people dead and 41 injured. It destroyed 55 homes and 15 businesses. More than 300 additional homes and businesses in its path had extensive damage from what remains the worst natural disaster in the history of Venice.
County commissioners surveying the damage from helicopters that morning compared it to a war zone.
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