With all of sorts of problems in New Orleans and no answer in sight, why would anyone who fled to Huntsville want to go back?

The answer - Because it's New Orleans

A look at three Katrina evacuees returning to their homes on the Gulf Coast from Huntsville.

Carolyn McNulty - Seamstress is back but has 2nd thoughts

Mary LeBlanc - Appraiser sees the ruins each day, but 'you don't get used to it'

The Paynes - Doctors find city's medical care in disarray

Stephen Burrell, an evacuee from Mandeville, La., is Panoply's new director.

Full story - A new home in Huntsville

On some nights, Annette Keeler changes the words when she's singing "Sweet Home, Alabama." Instead, she'll sing, "Sweet home, FEMA trailer."

Full story - No way to really forget

When Katrina devastated New Orleans, Steve Johnson accepted that he was relocating. But, give up his Bourbon Street jazz band?

Full story - New Johnson High band director

Operation Restoration is the product of churches, businesses and individuals donating time and money to renovate an old hotel.

Full story - Operation takes in stranded family on way back home

A year ago, the Volunteer Center of Madison County was the place that recruited retirees and stay-at-home moms to give a few hours a week to charity.

Full story - Agency creates local database

Katherine Dillon gave up a family trip to Walt Disney World last fall for a week spent wrestling black-widow-covered logs and shoveling maggoty meat from an overturned freezer in the trail of debris left by Hurricane Katrina.

Full story - Southwood youth notice shift after trip to storm-torn areas

Cindy Small sat in the student center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville on the first day of fall classes last week, talking about change.

Full story - Evacuee's staying put

The pictures showed blue-shirted Oakwood College students moving debris and offering bowls of soup in a ruined land of mud and smashed houses.

Full story - Relief efforts in New Orleans hone character, life skills

Everybody with a camera, it seems, wants to tell the story of what New Orleans residents went through last year during the devastating Hurricane Katrina, even noted filmmaker Spike Lee.

Full story - Former Scottsboro resident lived tale of tragedy, hope

With Ernesto breathing heavily on the Gulf Coast, threatening to return to hurricane strength, a lot of people are wondering: If there was another Katrina tomorrow, are we better prepared to handle it?

Full story - Response worked well for Katrina; lessons learned, too