Evacuees choose hotels over shelters
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The wildfires in California have forced an exodus of estimated 950,000 people from their homes. But where have they all gone?
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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There are always trade-offs to every place people choose to live. If you live in New York, it&#39;s too expensive. If you live in Montana, it&#39;s too remote. If you live in Florida, you&#39;re going to be slammed with hurricanes all the time.
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Hotel ratings are often a maze of confusion, aggravated in recent years by online travel booking sites that often use customersâ comments to rate accommodations.
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More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit, going home to New Orleans has become a receding dream for thousands of evacuees.
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The tent city housing thousands of wildfire evacuees at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium could be mistaken for a county fair, with stiltwalkers and abundant refreshments. But in a cold slap of reality, evacuees in one tent privately read the list of nearly 1,600 homes that have been destroyed.
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LAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.
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With business travelers filling rooms again, some hotels appear to be having second thoughts about their emphasis on families.
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CALGARY (CP) - Police and firefighters were searching floor-to-floor in a  homeless shelter Sunday after more than 200 people developed a mysterious illness during the night.
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Business got better for Boston hotels last month, as events including the Democratic National Convention and Macworld brought plenty of guests and higher rates than local hoteliers have seen in recent years, according to a study released yesterday.
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As winds began to die down, the reality of this weekâs wildfires began to resonate for thousands of evacuees.
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By Thomas Fuller  One photograph showed a workers' dormitory  a dozen or so beds in a large room. Another showed workers lined up, in uniform, outside a building.
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As people left homeless by Hurricane Charley began their second week living in makeshift shelters, federal officials pledged Sunday that more substantial temporary housing was on the way.
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Cut your travel costs and get out of the hotel.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - In storm-battered Florida, more than 3,900 people were staying in shelters Wednesday while nearly 1.3 million homes and businesses were without power...
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It's easy &#151; particularly during the holidays &#151; not to notice the homeless inside New York's two airports.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Relief supplies poured  rapidly into southwest Florida after Hurricane Charley's  devastating punch but some of the thousands of newly homeless  on Monday were frustrated as they faced rebuilding their lives.