Storm clouds cross over Lake Pontchartrain, Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 in Metairie, La. a suburb of New Orleans. The Causeway Bridge, left, is 24 miles long and runs across Lake Pontchartrain connecting Jefferson Parish on the South Shore and St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore. Lake Pontchartrain over flowed on Aug. 29, 2005 as Hurricane Katrina hit the area almost two years ago. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)