I think the ‘sea’ is the roiling of people, not necessarily water. We see the great tumult in our own society right now and it’s only going to get worse. Just like in Sodom & Gomorrah where the sinful were so proud as to bang on the door to send out the men for sex, we are also in that place in society. And, like Lot, we are appeasing the wicked (take my daughter instead)...
Yes, the roiling of people too — one of the many parts of the seige of Jerusalem that was incredible was that the city, under seige, decided to start a civil war INSIDE the city, where the Zealots committed sacrilege in the temple, where they burnt the grain leading to starvation