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Evacuees Trying to Piece Lives Together To hurricane survivors Richard Allen and Sandra Montegut, their recent arrival together at Camp Couchdale has been just another, albeit more comfortable, chapter in the struggle to gather the scattered jigsaw pieces of their lives in the wake of Katrina. The pair, fellow residents of New Orleans' eastern district, finally landed at Camp Couchdale following a three-day bus ride. The neighbors spent a week in the horrifying post-storm conditions of the Superdome, sleeping in shifts and defending one another from the criminal element that quickly surfaced there. "There was so much lawlessness," Montegut stated,...