Tornado Hits Venice, Italy

Dorothy...you aren't in Kansas anymore.

So what's up?  Isn't Venice the place with all the canals and gondolas?  Tornadoes are almost unheard of in Italy...especially Venice.

The twister, packing wind speeds of up to 140kmh, narrowly missed Venice itself, but caused significant damage to several islands in the surrounding lagoon.

It struck on Monday but the extent of the damage only emerged later, as emergency officials and the deputy mayor of Venice visited the affected area.

Dozens of boats were overturned and a group of 15 sailing students were trapped inside a boat house after its entrance was blocked by a fallen tree.

The tornado swept in from the Adriatic Sea, passing over the long strip of land known as the Lido, where the Venice Film Festival is held.

Photographs and amateur video showed the sky turning an ominous dark grey as the tornado drilled its way across the shallow lagoon.

Tornadoes are rare in Italy. The last one to hit Venice was in 1970, when a vaporetto ferry sank with the loss of 21 lives.

Here;  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9328745/Venice-assesses-damage-after-tornado-strike.html

That is rare....they haven't seen a tornado for 42 years!!  I wonder if God is trying to say something?...or if it's just one other "coincidence"?