This paper is developed from the primary research, the author carried out in one of the tsunami hit fishing villages in Southern Tamilnadu, India as part of his PhD research. It explains in detail, mainly about the underlying cultural dimension that is often gets ignored in the light of more pressing needs in both the disasters themselves and development context as a whole. It further elaborates on how people attempt to adapt to the change, by giving meanings and logics to qualify, for instance the disqualified socio-spatial spaces to accommodate their local needs. Through a detail assessment of this empirical casestudy, it also proposes that there is need for integrating strategies to interface between local cultural needs and the existing post tsunami development process.