It’s not the sea rising. Time was that area was covered with a mile and a half of ice. When it melted the land rose. Now there are liberals a mile and a half deep and since they are so full of it that they leave brown tracks everywhere they weigh more than the ice did and they have reversed the process.
heheh closer than you think. Coastal New England actually is sinking its a phenomena known as Post-glacial rebound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
Basicly ice weights a lot, so much in fact that when it covered the land in vast sheets it pushed down the crust causing the perimeter to budge up. After that ice melted 11-5 thousand years ago the crust has been slowly settling ever sense.
The land is still rising. It's called "isostatic rebound." It's the reason why you can look at a topographical map of Canada and see many huge, natural lakes. While if you look at a map of the U.S., you'll see the Great Lakes (most of them shared with Canada) and other smaller lakes only in the northern states. Virtually all other American lakes, except for lowland lakes close to the sea like Lake Ponchartrain, are artificially-created lakes.
After the retreat (actually melting) of the last huge ice sheets, areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota were covered with huge glacial lakes like Lake Agassiz. That lake and others like it are no more as the land rose emptying them. Huge amounts of Candadian water are still being emptied into the sea as the land rises. And that is one big reason why the sea is rising.
Not only that but tectonic plate motion will put the whole thing in the drink, at two +/- inches per year going that-a-way. The downside of that is that the eastern snivelers will be slowly forced west——will have to put strict border control in place at that point to keep the Kennedy clan out of my neighborhood.