Of all the bad spots to be doing business during Gustov, one would be hard pressed to find a worser one; althought there may be several others vying for equal distinction of just plain bad, e.g., Buras, Port Sulphur, Pointe la Hache, anybody on the Chandalier Islands, et ali. That whole area possibly could be subject to wind surge+swell+wave action totalling 40'. Who knows? If so, however, that only to the lament of everybody ELSE around them; by extension the surrounding areas would be innundated with correspondingly higher storm surge than forecast.
The tides in the Gulf seem to run on a different cycle than the Atlantic ones.
How is the new moon going to affect the Gulf during this hurricane?