Almost 315,000 evacuees still live in cramped temporary housing, and need new homes.A different kind of suffering weighs on about 20m people (a sixth of the population) at this time of year which, though less anguish-filled, is not trivial.
The pursuing army was at times just a couple of hours behind her and her fellow evacuees.
Having said that, they are making it through to the worst affected areas, and are airlifting food and supplies to 450,000 evacuees.
For nuclear evacuees, government health checks have been sporadic Wakana has undergone only one full-body scan, almost a year afterwards but citizens' groups have increased their monitoring of nuclear evacuees for thyroid cancer and other problems.
And the evacuees felt an awful pressure to escape the camps.
Volcanic activity had been on the decline when, on January 31st, the authorities decided that it was time for 13,800-odd evacuees from 16 villages outside the exclusion zone to return home.
"For Hamas, it's win-win," sighs a European official.In this section Still sitting pretty Reluctant evacuees Who will sit in judgment?
The International Commission on Radiological Protection says an appropriate "normal" level is 1mSv/year, over the long term.Second, some asked the national government to exempt all evacuees from the cost of their medical checks, not just the under-18-year-olds, as was apparently offered.
According to the Israelis, this forced the commandos to open fire.In this section Still sitting pretty Reluctant evacuees Who will sit in judgment?
This would probably have bankrupted Texas's Medicaid programme, had the federal government not promised last week to cover the extra costs imposed by the evacuees (costs that may rise again after Rita).In the long term, Katrina's main impact on Medicaid may be indirect: it seems to have ruined everyone's appetite for serious reform.
In the West Houston apartment complexes near where evacuees live police cars are already highly visible.
