Most of the evacuees are living in sports hall and gymnasiums as they wait to return home.
Like many of the evacuees, Ms Midwinter only learned about Sir Nicholas many years later through a television programme.
It was not known whether arrangements have been made to care for the evacuees or transport them to the correct destination.
The evacuees who are well enough to be moved after treatment are taken to area or out-of-state hospitals, with some traveling as far as Utah.
Some of the evacuees were homeless after Gustav pounded western Cuba.
But what was most interesting, I think, is that an expectation that the evacuees, people who have left New Orleans, living, at least temporarily, in cities like Houston, Memphis and Atlanta, would be a huge factor, that didn't turn out to be the case.
Mr. BENNIE PETE (Tuba Player, Hot 8 Brass Band): We knew they were there because that's where they were housing the evacuees, and we just showed up and, you know, we were going there with - on our mind to kind of just show what we had, to share with each other that we were united.
For the other evacuees on the trucks, it was a trip back to the staging area and then to somewhere else--where, they didn't know.
Boyer has extra reason to be grateful -- the owners of the hotel have decided they will let her and the other evacuees stay indefinitely, even though they too have many other reservations for the rooms.
The tiny evacuees, many from London's impoverished East End, were not always eagerly received.
In San Diego, Mayor Jerry Sanders announced that Qualcomm Stadium -- the home of NFL's Chargers that held 11, 000 evacuees at the height of the fires but dropped to 750 Wednesday night -- would close to evacuees.
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Working with KIPP cofounder Michael Feinberg, who lives in Houston, Robichaux and his core staff created a transitional KIPP school in Houston to serve the New Orleans evacuees until they could return home.
The bus had about 50 evacuees from New Orleans on board when the crash occurred about 4 p.m. on Interstate 49 northbound, said Opelousas, Louisiana, police Lt.
The precise number of casualties, evacuees and people missing from the In Amenas complex remains unclear.
"These all related to the arrival of a large number of Guernsey evacuees who had fled the Nazi occupation there, " she said.
San Diego city officials closed Qualcomm Stadium, home to the NFL's Chargers, to evacuees at midday Friday and cleared the team to play its scheduled Sunday afternoon game there against the Houston Texans.
It was converted eight days ago into a makeshift hospital that serves as the first stop for evacuees needing medical attention.
In its list of precautions to returning evacuees, the city warns that people will be entering New Orleans at their own risk.
However, authorities later decided to process evacuees at the Astrodome and house them in the nearby Reliant Arena, said Patrick Trahan, city spokesman.
Shinji Tokonami, a professor who helped to run the study, said that his group used different assumptions than the government about whether evacuees faced high exposure immediately or whether it was spread out over two weeks.
Free newspapers were available, National Guard troops kept watch, ventriloquists and balloon artists entertained kids, and even massage therapists were trying to help the 12, 000 to 15, 000 evacuees relax as they fretted about the fate of their homes.
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Ever since the hurricane destroyed their home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Dionne Thompson(ph) and her five children have been sleeping on cots with hundreds of other evacuees in the small town of Gonzales--communal living, no privacy, waiting for a real place to call home.
Cataldie also put to rest rumors that some stranded evacuees who packed the convention center and Superdome had been murdered.
Evacuees arrive at the center from New Orleans, about 80 miles southeast of Baton Rouge, and elsewhere in Louisiana through a variety of transport.
Mrs Mawson, who is based in Derbyshire, said her interest in the story of Guernsey's evacuees began "purely by accident".
Mrs Mawson was recognised earlier this year for her work in reuniting Guernsey evacuees with people in the north of England who had housed them during WWII.
Oxford City Council said its community staff were at the stadium offering housing advice to some evacuees.
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This afternoon, several U.S. Marine helicopters took off from the American embassy, carrying several dozen evacuees who were described as emergency cases.
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