North Texas
(2008-09-01)
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A Salvation Army truck is parked outside the convention center handing out food and drinks to those too restless to stay inside. Beverly Porter and her family from Lake Charles were NOT going to take a chance - not after the destruction done by Hurricane Rita three years ago.
BJ Austin: Had you gotten back on your feet and now here comes Gustav?
Porter: Yes ma'am. We're back, and now here comes another one. Like I say, it's mind boggling, but we do the best we can.
Arriving at the Dallas Convention Center, Janell Dejean Rainey - from the lower 9th Ward in New Orleans - is frustrated.
Janell Rainey: Cause I just got my house fixed, but FEMA, Nagin and Bush. They gonna pay to get my house fixed again.
Her husband, Garland Rainey has had it with New Orleans and hurricanes. He says it's time to move.
Garland Rainey: Somewhere like Atlanta, anywhere but new Orleans. Same thing keeps happening over and over again. It don't make no sense.
Bonnie and Robert Babin of Thibodeaux, Louisiana say they saw Gustav coming, and got a seat on a school bus headed for Dallas.
Babin's: Some on her side stayed in Lousiana, some went to Shreveport. Some stayed there. But it's dangerous to stay there cause you have to worry about your life, you know.
Alfred Jenkins, of Lake Charles, is trying to take it all in stride.
Jenkins: It's kinda stressful. But I'm just happy that we're all alive and we're all together.
Jenkins says he doesn't know how long it'll be before he and his family will be able to head home to pick up after Gustav.
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