It was not until the end of October that military officials even confirmed the existence of the village, where a cluster of between 50 and 100 trailers house officers from Britain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Jordan, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Qatar, Turkey, Belgium and Canada.

BBC: US military coalition gathers strength

The problem is Louisiana needs more than 100 times that many trailers to house the families displaced by the hurricanes, and at the rate FEMA's been going so far, that would take more than three years.

NPR: Delays Plague Distribution of Trailers to Rita Homeless

Green and his cousin live in two narrow trailers on the lot where his house used to be.

CNN: Ruins, deaths don't stop family's return