On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:22:28 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Wonder why you don't hear this type of story
from Florida, which would seem more susceptible to flooding, and has
much more shoreline.

You don't hear about it because it is not happening to any significant
extent. Guilford is no doubt a special case of subsiding land. There
are other areas where this is happening and it has nothing to do with
global warming/cooling. There are parts of coastal Louisiana
subsiding because of oil field depletion.