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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:11 PM
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Hotels to evacuees: Go before big game (TallahASSee Fla.)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12529728.htm

Many Tallahassee hotels have told hurricane evacuees they'll have to move by the day of the FSU-Miami football game so that fan bookings can be honored.

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS

meklas@herald.com


TALLAHASSEE - Hundreds of Katrina evacuees who fled to Tallahassee seeking refuge from the storm have been politely told by their hotels and motels to leave this weekend to make room for a football game: FSU vs. Miami.

Hotel space is traditionally scarce any time the Florida State Seminoles take on the University of Miami Hurricanes, one of the choicest tickets on the college football schedule.

But with hotels packed with families from Louisiana and Mississippi, and room space booked for Monday's game for months, hotel operators say they are trying to accommodate the evacuees but have no choice but to nudge them out.

''We have to let them know what's going on in town and they're going to have to leave,'' said Angie Rayman, manager at the Howard Johnson. ``Many of them are trying to get closer to home anyway.''

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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:15 PM
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1. How charming.
Lord knows we don't want to fuck up a FOOTBALL GAME!
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Clintmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:40 PM
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2. I live in Tallahssee...
I can't BELIEVE they would make all the people leave who are already there, displaced from their homes by this calamity! I'm disguted!
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:44 PM
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3. They should cancel the damn game then.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:08 PM
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6. or play it in Miami which is presumably not burdened with refugees
being several hundred miles southeast.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:44 PM
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4. The hotel shouldn't be burdened with this, Jeb should do something
Hell he's the Hurricane governer why doesn't he tell one of the universtiys to open up they're gymnasiums?
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:07 PM
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5. Remember Kids, don't watch that game if you don't need to
assholes
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