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Austin hotel group offers 100 free rooms to Hurricane Ida evacuees
All 100 rooms at 6 locations were filled as of Monday
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News

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An Austin, Texas-based hotel group offered 100 free rooms to Hurricane Ida evacuees until Wednesday.

Bunkhouse Hotels told FOX 7 Austin that all of the 100 rooms at six of its hotel locations including its Austin Motel, Hotel San José, Hotel Magdalena and Carpenter Hotel in Austin; its Hotel Havana in San Antonio; and its Stagecoach Inn in Salado were filled by Monday.


An Austin, Texas-based hotel group is offering 100 free rooms to Hurricane Ida evacuees until Wednesday, according to local reports. (Cedit: Bunkhouse Hotels)
"Our hearts are with our friends in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama," the hotels said in two identical Aug. 28 Facebook posts. "If you are an evacuee of Hurricane Ida, we have a room for you starting tomorrow through Wednesday — free of charge."

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RESCUE EFFORTS CONTINUE IN LOUISIANA AFTER IDA WEAKENS TO TROPICAL DEPRESSION

City officials over the weekend urged southeastern Louisiana residents to evacuate the area as Hurricane Ida made landfall with sustained maximum winds of 150 mph, leaving about a million homes without power.

An Austin, Texas-based hotel group is offering 100 free rooms to Hurricane Ida evacuees until Wednesday, according to local reports. (Cedit: Bunkhouse Hotels)
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Bunkhouse told Fox News it is also working with a Louisiana-based nonprofit called Tankproof to put together a supplies drive for essential items such as toiletries and personal hygiene items, socks, blankets, baby supplies, non-perishable items, first aid supplies and more.

[Dee]

Austin Texas is THE LIBERAL CITY of the state. They will keep this grevious error to themselves, after it plays out.

[Ranger99]

I would imagine the rooms will need
renovating after the refugees leave
about like the katrina crowd left the
taxpayer purchased FEMA trailers
they had south of here.
There were a bunch of them for
sale about a year later at a place
that had bought a bunch of them.
I went and looked because of the
unrealistic low price, and they
were all but ready to burn to the
ground. Holes punched and kicked
in every sheetrock wall, toilets
and sinks smashed. Broken
window glass, etc. etc.
You'd think people would be
grateful to have a dry place to
lay their heads

[ironglow]

.
  When my brother was forced to evacuate from Bridge City, on the Texas coast (right on the Louisiana border), he of course, travelled north, still staying within Texas.

  There, he and numerous Texans, stayed at a Baptist church until the 'all clear call' came.  The Texans were respectful of the building and grounds, house cleaning each day etc.

  A few miles away, a group from New Orleans city stayed at another church..  Sadly, they trashed out the place..

  There were dumpsters provided, but they were not faithfully used..except when the people received donations of clothes, baby diapers etc..  Much of that new material was found in the dumpster..left there because it was not the right brand or style.