Evacuees plan their futures

The Shreveport Times provides vignettes of some of the nearly 10,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Shreveport and Bossier City in the article "Evacuees Ponder What Future Holds". The story tells the stories of those who want to reclaim their homes in New Orleans, and those who want to start new lives elsewhere, leaving the tragedy behind. The reporter writes : "Multiply their plight and their choices by tens of thousands throughout Louisiana and dry parts of Texas and Mississippi and in states as distant as Utah and New Jersey, and you have the underpinnings of a crisis of mood that could affect the nation for generations."