Displaced Coffeyville residents face choice

Displaced Coffeyville residents face choice.
People here are preoccupied with what to do with their new ghost town -- and ghost homes. Should they pay to rebuild, trusting that contamination from oily floodwater can be cleaned up? Or should they leave, taking voluntary buyouts offered by Coffeyville Resources? Most of them have lower incomes and no flood insurance. They can"t live in their homes right now. Still, some say they can"t help visiting the neighborhoods where record flooding spread crude oil from the refinery in early July. That spill was estimated at 71,000 gallons. They pull up outside their houses, and stare and ponder what to do. There"s 64-year-old Vicki Loomis, who says the stress of the oil contamination contributed to her husband"s fatal heart attack July 18.