As far as I am hearing the story, an apartment building in Biloxi collapsed, killing about 30 people inside.
But, apparently it was an apartment building pretty much at the waterfront !!!
Seriously - who decides to stay in an apartment building (usually not the most well-built of structures), right at the waterfront, when the biggest hurricane in a generation is heading straight for you?
Unless there is some explanation, like these were elderly people in a home, and couldn't be moved, or these were people who were so poor they could not afford transportation, I pretty much consider those deaths more along the lines of "suicide", not poor victims killed by the hurricane.
It's like people who are killed by a train because they crossed the tracks when the gate was down - that's suicide, not "being hit by a train"
Just to clarify - I don't have a problem with people wanting to "ride out the storm" and protect their property from looters, etc - and perhaps if you are in a block or concrete house, it woudl be feasible to do right in the path of a Cat 5 hurricane. But in an apartment building right at the water?? That's insane.