[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Grog Island on the Chesapeake Bay vanished in my lifetime, not because of sea level rise, but of the loss of sea grass. The northeast side of the island used to have acres of underwater sea grass in the shallow waters on the most exposed side of the island. The grass calmed the waves and prevented erosion. The grass died out and within ten years the island was gone.

I have been coming to Deltaville for 50 years and the Bay waters at high and low tide are exactly where they have been since 1966 on the docks and sea walls that have been there since that time.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

"I have been coming to Deltaville for 50 years and the Bay waters at high and low tide are exactly where they have been since 1966 on the docks and sea walls that have been there since that time." My place near Reedville is only 35 years old, but the dock is and always has been 3-1/2 feet above the surface at mean low water. I guess we're immune to the threat of rising waters in the Northern Neck, huh? TC