“I must’ve been the first one, I followed that storm right in,” the former president said. “I saw the devastation, it was a travesty, it was viscous, it was water. The water was the worst we’d ever seen. It was a water hurricane, that’s what it was.”
I think he meant to say that it looked like a tropical earthquake blew through there.
https://youtu.be/pqLKL8hYo8M?si=MVgl0g83iEozj1Nf