Many Slave Lake families won't be heading back

EDMONTON — The Alberta town of Slave Lake will be much smaller when it rebuilds, say the Roblins, one of many families who have decided that life will be more stable if they put down roots elsewhere.

"It's going to be years before it is rebuilt," Dwayne Roblin said Tuesday. "It was just wiped off the map. We might go back to take a picture of the house, but it will be just ashes.

"We've all had a pretty good life up there, and to have to come to a place like this is pretty humiliating," he said, sitting at a picnic table outside the Edmonton Expo evacuation centre. "We're not going back up there. There's nothing there for us."...Read Here