Thursday night, St. Tammany leaders are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Ike.

Lake Pontchartrain's waters are expected to rise between three and five feet. Along Lakeview Drive in Slidell, Gustav's mess remains, piles of stinking marsh grass. 

Charlie Messina says, "What really makes it smell is the nutria's that's dead in there, and the snakes that's dead, and whatever, wild pigs.  But it smells pretty bad."

Messina says he and his neighbors are watching Ike closely, but they believe they're going to be fine. "With this storm, I feel good, as long as it gets past that 90 degrees.  I'll feel good when it's past that."

The slight nervousness on the North Shore comes after Hurricane Gustav flooded much of the Palm Lake subdivision in Slidell, and the Mandeville lakefront.
Waters are not expected to rise to that level with Ike, and Parish President Kevin Davis says, people who live in coastal St. Tammany have learned to live with the water.