I have lived in the Norfolk, VA area for 30 years and I’m here to tell ya it floods every time it rains hard. Always has.
From the USF Adjunct Faculity listing:
Asbury H. Sallenger Jr. (U.S. Geological Survey), Professor; Ph.D., Virginia, 1975. Nearshore sedimentary and wave processes, coastal erosion, sediment transport.
I was curious to see if this guy was connected to Michael Mann and Penn State, but I'm remembering that Mann was from UVA, generating some press after the fact.
It looks like they're separated by almost a generation, but maybe UVA is source of the questionable global warming "scientists"?