NEW ORLEANS -- Doctors say the uncertainty over where Tropical Storm Gustav will land is causing increased tension.

That's added to the lingering traumatic effects from Hurricane Katrina.

Every book in the library at N.P. Trist public middle school in St. Bernard Parish is brand new. The only thing that bears the damage of Katrina is a stained American flag. There are also pictures of the waterlines and twisted metal, but more powerful are the stories these eighth graders and their teachers tell the school counselor.

"I found it difficult to go to sleep last night. Just part of it was because I couldn't get the stories that my co-workers and students were telling me off of my heart, " says school counselor Michelle Tate.

She says both students and parents are feeling anxiety, fear and nervousness evidenced by the fact that they jumped on the Internet to see the Gustav track.

"It makes you wonder like if we're going to be still protected," says eighth grader Ursula St. Romain.

"I'm scared because of the last time what happened and really nervous," says her classmate Kane Royce.

"The fact of another hurricane after all the devastation it really just makes you think a little bit," adds student Jada Green.

Their teacher Robert Strauss just moved back into his Lakeview house earlier this month and is concerned about Gustav as well.

"I got a first feel for that last night with my little girl who's ten and her biggest concern was for our pets and didn't want to go through the whole leaving the pets behind," he says. 

Eight grader Candice Barwick says talking to friends helps.

"It's kind of like counseling. I get out my feelings and just makes me feel better," she says.

Head of Psychology at Children's Hospital and associate professor of Pediatrics at LSU Health Sciences Center Dr. Doug Faust says he has seen adults crying today over the fear of Gustav being like Katrina and he says parents and children need to talk about what they are feeling to each other without going in to too much detail.

"We want to be patient if they have these changes in their behaviors of actions. That's a normal response. It's transient and although we are in a difficult spot in time we want to try and have those kids express that stuff and then have time to go back to normal without us getting angry," he says. 

It's the perfect storm, emotions bubbling up over Katrina's anniversary with new fear of Gustav.

"Our home this is our home and the thought of something like that happening again, everybody's , we just can't go there," says school Librarian Wendy Gonzales.