By Alabama Public Radio
Undated, AL – There are more than 20-thousand evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas still living in Alabama one year after Hurricane Katrina. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the largest number of out-of-state evacuees -- about 5-thousand -- live in or around Mobile. Another 32-hundred remain in the Birmingham area, and thousands more are scattered through Montgomery, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa and other areas. FEMA statistics also show about 113-thousand Alabama residents applied for federal and state assistance after Katrina, and about 39-hundred remain in temporary housing in the state.