Actually Shep set his SELF up for this...HE is the main one I can remember that came on TV on Monday night and Tues. morning reporting that the hurricane...
"wasn't that bad". In fact, I think I sensed sort of "let down" in his voice...like he was expecting "the big one" and didn't get it.
I think he is really re-evaluating how he felt earlier in the week. This was a "lark" for him in the beginning...a chance to go to Bourbon Street and experience a Cat 5 hurricane...
Sure. Shep was overconfident at best, stupid and arrogant at worse. But now he's living in a hell that is partially his own making. He didn't leave when he could have. But now he is there. So, that's that.