Gustav evacuees wait to return home

Hurricane Gustav didn't barrel ashore in the US as the devastating terror everyone feared, leaving some of the 2 million people who evacuated second-guessing their decision to flee.

Better safe than sorry? Sure, evacuees said. But better home than stranded elsewhere, too.

Impatience at overcrowded shelters around the US Gulf Coast figured to rise yesterday as evacuees from New Orleans to Southeast Texas waited to learn when buses that whisked them to safety during mandatory evacuations would return to take them home.