About 8 miles outside the center of Baton Rouge, in a town called Baker, a trailer camp has been built to house a few thousand of those hurricane evacuees still staying in area shelters and hotels. When I was down in Louisiana, I drove out to see the Baker trailer camp. A few days after visiting Baker, I toured New Orleans and the very neighborhoods the evacuees had evacuated from.

New Orleans was, of course, was a city environment and a densely-populated one at that. The area in which the Baker trailer camp has been built has no commerce beyond a convience store attached to a gas station. There was, at the time of my visit, no public transportation. It's the sort of remote open space where one might think to build a prison of some kind. In fact, the nearest establish of any real size is a juvenile detention center.

I cut together a video (.wmv), just over a minute long, showing part of the drive from Baton Rouge out to Baker and some of the 573 trailers in the camp.

(As the video itself has no real audio beyond just the sound of the wind whistling past the windows as we drove, I added in a song called Everything's Just Fine, Thanks by Flatwound that I found through ccMixter.)