[EBH]

Someone was reporting that most of the casinos are built on barges, to float? He sounded pretty smart about it. Wondering if it's true.

[NittanyLion]

Someone was reporting that most of the casinos are built on barges, to float? He sounded pretty smart about it. Wondering if it's true.

I believe MS prohibits casinos built on land, so they build them out over the water. Read that here yesterday.

[LadyBuzz]

Yesterday Gov Barbour said that part of the stipulation of building the casinos was that they would have to be be "floating casinos"

[SunnySide]

yep I think they're on the water like most river boat casinos. Something to do with legalities of no gambling "on land" so they put the casino on the water

[spectre]

Yes, the Casino's in MS are built out on Barges, because it's against the law to gamble on land.. You'd never know it, from the looks of the structures.

But the Casino Hotels are built on land.

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[nina0113]

Someone was reporting that most of the casinos are built on barges, to float? He sounded pretty smart about it. Wondering if it's true.

That's what (MS Gov. - R) Haley Barbour was saying yesterday - it had been the law up until this year. He was worried they might break free of their chains and get blown into town.

[KC Burke]

Due to the original legal requirements, the actaul gaming floors are built on huge barge-structure floors so that gaming is "on the water". Often these floors float inside a fixed wall and roof strucutre, but sometimes that whole thing floats. some of these are so large that you don't feel any movement during even a normal storm.

However, they can rise in a storm surge, rip connective links, tear a wall out of the surrounding strucutre, and do all sorts of damge.