want to be on the right side that is where the worst of the storm surge is that with katrina was a category five that made landfall coming in from this direction into the mississippi coastline. the storm didn't get much energy was the mississippi coastline was destroyed they had a 30-foot storm surge and it destroyed the coastline i drove down there one year after the storm and it was still completely leveled. what happened in new orleans really didn't happen from katrina necessarily but the wind on the backside that pushed all the water from pontchartrain ambassador levies it's not that katrina caused it but the levee failure from just the wind coming across lake want to train and that is what broke down the levies and ultimately poured all of that water into new orleans.