[Tarpon]

Well Biloxi Mississippi proved floating didn't work either. But high rise condos with proper storm shutters will work. There are plenty of ways to build and live with the hazard, just not the way it was being done. This is one place where low rent project housing may be most appropriate.

The Netherlands has a similar issue and they seem to be coping with it.

[heartwood]

I don't think the North Sea storms get quite as bad as hurricanes, though they did have a killer in 1953. And then the Dutch were, well, Dutch. Now they have imported a resentful underclass, just like we did long ago.

[dfwgator]

The Netherlands doesn't get hurricanes.