. >> that vulnerability is something that ryan lambert knows well. katrina once put him out of business. >> it's not a matter of if a hurricane is going to hit, it's a matter of when. you live with it. >> a tour boat operator whose home was destroyed by katrina, he's now trying to sound the alarm about how dangerous the area has become. state officials have developed a 50 year, $50 million fund to restore some of these areas buttists not clear how it will be funded and lambert says it's not a priority. >> if they knew the jeopardy we are in at land lost, it came up 24 foot in 15 minutes in my launch. >> the conventional wisdom is that every mile of land is reduced by one foot. during katrina, the 21 foot breached the levees where lambert lived. >> it was four foot over the top of that levee. that would have been six and a half foot of tidal surge that would have been knocked down. it's 17 and a half foot now might not have went over the levee if we still had the marsh. >> reporter: i wanted to see that marsh or at least something like it. so lambert