He's just trying to make himself feel better. Can't blame him, I guess. Yesterday he seemed pretty shaken as anybody would be.
The guy in the street seems to have more of a handle on reality, (and what happened to the guy at the Dome, I think his name was Jeff Goldblatt.)
But it sounds like Shep thinks they've dodged the bulled and doesn't think they'll be flooding, and maybe there won't, but I don't think the thread of flooding has past.
Jeff Goldblatt and crew went to the W hotel last night.