Why Mr. McGrath! An' is that yerself today!! Doesn't sound like your usual temperate-zoned commentary. Now, how would our own Dr Mark Cohen feel if his Pacific island State had to host Congress while worrying that A Rising Tide Swamps All Ships? // But yes, of course I see; you're not wishing for our inundation, merely our awakening to the truth via our usual pursuit of unenlightened self-interest. OK, point well taken. (For a minute there I feared some low-life Guest had hacked the 'Cat and was posting in your name from some low-lying North Atlantic Isles. :) // The District of Columbia does perch upon the banks of the grand Potomac River, very near to the broad Chesapeake Bay and the mighty ocean beyond. In other words, they *are* in the Lowlands Low & I'm guessing they'll go under right quick when the Arctic swells roll in.