Actually Katrina didn't do much, storm wise, to NO. I well remember the broadcasts from the French Quarter that NO had "dodged the bullet" as Katrina slid East to Mississippi.
The failure of the levys, on the other hand, ...
The failure of he levies is what he was on about. He said the place was a disaster waiting to happen.
That was the Shrimp (Shep) on bourbon street and he was plastered. The storm hit in the exact manner described as a worse case scenario for flooding. While he was drunk on Bourbon, the lower wards were flooding.