I usually post everything like fun stuff, maybe a little lewd but from time to time even I need to be serious. The page is in italian, but I will give you a translation below: “End of 2019. For Venice, this has been a terrible year, due to the disastrous floodings of november and dicember. The 12 of november we had the second worst flooding of our history, 187 cm (73,6 inches) on the sea level.We are a small, family-runned stationery and art supplies shop in the historical centre of Venice. In front of the "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" pretended library, just sayin'. Our one sells stationery and paper from 1860, way before the unity of Italy. Our family runs the shop since 2000. We are a very small shop, the friendly neighborood stationery shop that many of you dream about. No Michael's here, no Papercraft: just us, and tons of pens, paper, and every type of colour you can imagine. Oil colours, markers, pencils, gouaches, acrylics, canvasses, stuffed like a turkey from the floor to the roof. The flooding of the 12 november devasted the shop. Inside, we had 42 cm (16,5 inches) of water. Lots of paper and other stuff destroyed, and our two great printers (devoted to all the Venice student's printings) ruined. It's not pure, clear water. It's salty and polluted water. We stay closed for ten days to clean everything, and worked half-service for the remaining days of the month (the insurance has been very slow to check the printers.)After that terrible night, other ten days of similar high tides were waiting for us. And after a small pause at the beginning of december, other ten days 'til the Christmas morning. Ruining all our hopes for some good Christmas sales.And Decemebr, in Italy, means taxes. Here we have a special tax for retailers, that make you pay in December the taxes for the earnings of the next year. Yes, you read correctly. We have to pay about something that is still not sold. Obiviously, after all the affirmations of help by the Italian government, Venice payed this tax like all Italy. Lefting us with barely nothing.We are worried. We are scared. We want to continue to work here, in a city that don't want to become an amusement park runned by great companies. Please, help us. Every coin is a blessing.“ If you can’t donate, doesen’t matter, just hit that sweet reblog button and help me spread the word!
