US disaster chief: Don't come home too soon

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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AFP) — Residents of storm-battered Louisiana should wait to return home until authorities give them the all-clear, a top disaster relief aide to US President George W. Bush warned Wednesday.

"We caution people not to come back in until they're sure that their parish has power, has water, sewer, and all those types of things it takes to survive," Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Dave Paulison said as Bush traveled here to see response efforts to Hurricane Gustav first hand.

"People are starting to move back into some of the parishes. We would caution people not to move back in until their parish president says it's safe to move back in," Paulison said aboard the presidential Air Force One airplane.

Bush, whose response to...