Evacuees scattered across the entire United States, officials say -KR

[Rose Siding]

BATON ROUGE, La. - In the first detailed account of the diaspora of nearly half a million New Orleanians following Hurricane Katrina, federal disaster officials released a map Wednesday showing hurricane evacuees have spread to every state in the Union.

Hundreds of thousands of evacuees remain holed up in hotels or with friends and family from Florida to Texas, but the map also revealed that a surprising number - tens of thousands - have settled in Atlanta, Arizona, Colorado, Miami, Seattle and Southern California.

Authorities estimate that more than 10,000 evacuees have settled in South Florida, 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay area of California and about 3,000 in the greater Philadelphia area.
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Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen unveiled the map, announcing that the government was moving to a new phase in hurricane recovery - embarking on the "daunting task" of tracking down each evacuee in an attempt to return as many as possible to sprawling government trailer parks and vacant apartments in Louisiana.

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