tsunamis do not require the exact same planning calculations as Hurricanes...an area may go hundreds of years without a major tsunami...hurricanes (cyclones, etc.) WILL strike certain areas every few years....and where to allow building depends on several different parameters--location, storm frequency, population density, and evacuation ease.

I have just been sitting watching a program...(still going as I type) on storms, how they develop, and sane ways of dealing with the treat. Funny, I'm hearing experts say more or less what I have been saying, only stronger! One guy who dealt with Andrew says it is "madness" to allow very large populations to build right on the beaches, like in Miami/Dade, no matter what building codes are followed. This would include floating casinos in Mississippi, I'd bet. ...allow fishing, boating and docks? sure...allow parks and scenic stuff? no problem.....allow giant high-rise apartments and hotels? Stupid! IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!...This is not just a matter of personal freedom and willingness to accept the danger...when disaster strikes, many others are affected...as rescuers who risk their lives, as neighbors who are inundated by refugees, and as taxpayers hundreds or thousands of miles away who find THEIR lives changed by the need to help pay for fools, and the government who tolerates fools who should never have been living and working in such places to begin with!

Sorry to sound so pessimistic, but WARNINGS WERE GIVEN...by people who know what they are talking about.....warnings were basically ignored, or treated casually.

   New Orleans and Southern Mississippi can now serve as a test to see if we can learn anything! It should not be rebuilt 'just as before'!

Pardon me if I don't hold my breath until common sense overcomes emotion, greed and nostalgia....I don't look good in blue!