Meet Trever and His Family at a Louisiana Shelter 7-year-old Trever has been enjoying his adventure as a result of Hurricane Gustav. Trever is one of 800 children who spent Sunday night at a major evacuation center at the satellite campus of Louisiana State University in Alexandria.   Surrounded by his extended family — all told three generations including 14 cousins, 11 aunts and uncles, and his grandmother — Trever and his cousins were among the first to receive evacuation backpacks from Save the Children. And Trever took no time in tearing into his backpack.   The children were delighted with what they found inside, including paper, crayons and teddy bears. Some tested out their toothbrushes (to the amazement of their parents), while Trever’s sister Angel, 4, and cousin Mazy, 3, conducted ear and throat check-ups with the small flashlights they found in their backpacks. “I like everything,” said Trever. “Just everything.” Indeed, most families are making the best of a bad situation. It took Jamie and her four children about 20 hours to reach safe haven in Alexandria. Their bus was turned away by two already full shelters on the road north from New Iberia, LA. She was happy to finally reach the facility, and her smallest son, Ashton, 2, was pleased to have a new teddy bear. This is not the first time many of these children have evacuated from a major hurricane. Just three years ago, Hurricane Katrina sent hundreds of thousands of families from their homes on the Gulf Coast — many for months. Shawaine tells us that they left New Orleans early this time. She and her extended family — including six small children — arrived at Alexandria on Sunday. So far, the children seemed to be enjoying each other’s company and the excitement of a new place. However, Shawaine’s oldest daughter, Alliyah, is thinking about what happened during the last big storm and is less enthusiastic about the current emergency. “My daughter remembers Katrina,” says her mother, Shawaine. “She gets a little shook up every time there is bad weather.”