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Thousands of Katrina evacuees EVICTED from hotels, now homeless
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Thousands of Katrina evacuees EVICTED from hotels, now homeless
Wed Feb 08th 2006
What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them. - Barbara Bush
NEW ORLEANS - Hauling everything he owned in a plastic garbage bag, Darryl Travis walked out of the chandeliered lobby of the Crowne Plaza, joining the exodus of Hurricane Katrina refugees evicted from their hotel rooms across the country Tuesday.
More than 4,500 evacuees were expected to check out of their government-paid hotel rooms Tuesday as the
Federal Emergency Management Agency began cutting off money to pay for their stays.
Far more people — a total of more than 20,000 storm victims — were given extensions by FEMA until at least next week and possibly as long as March 1, said FEMA spokesman Butch Kinerney.
FEMA said it gave people every possible opportunity to request an extension. ...
[link to news.yahoo.com]
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