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Updated: 9:46 AM Feb 8, 2006
Thousands Of Evacuees Now On Their Own
Thousands of hurricane evacuees who were staying in hotels and motels were on their own Wednesday.
Posted: 10:15 AM Feb 8, 2006 |
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Thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who had been living in 4,500 motel and hotel rooms are now on their own.
They were evicted from hotel rooms across the country because the Federal Emergency Management agency began cutting off money to pay for their stays.
FEMA says it gave those forced to move every possible opportunity to request an extension.
In Houston, where 4,000 evacuees were staying in hotels, about 80 percent have permission to extend their stays until at least Monday.
A spokesman for Houston Mayor Bill White says the other 20 percent either failed to contact FEMA or made other housing arrangements.
But evictions have drawn protests in New York and Oakland, California, where demonstrators carried signs and changed "Evict FEMA."
Darryl Travis, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee still in New Orleans hauled out everything he owned in a large plastic garbage bag Tuesday and headed for Texas.
Travis walked out of the Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, joining the exodus of storm victims evicted from hotels nationwide.
Travis, who along with five childhood friends all staying at the Crowne Plaza, said they plan to make their way to Houston to stay with relatives.
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