Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Hurricane Katrina refugees will be asked to leave Tallahassee, Fla., motels and hotels this weekend to accommodate college football fans. Florida state law mandates hotels honor reservations, meaning hundreds of evacuees will be asked to leave during the weekend in the run-up to Monday's fiercely competitive Florida State Seminoles-Miami Hurricanes game. Advertisement The Tallahassee Area Convention & Visitors Bureau has sent Red Cross contact numbers to hotels and motels, telling them to inform evacuees they have to vacate rooms, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. "There is absolutely no compassion here whatsoever," Lynne Bernard wrote on a bulletin board on the Web site of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. "The Hampton Inn in Tallahassee is pretty much throwing us out because of a football game." At least six Tallahassee churches said they would provide shelter to anyone displaced by the disaster and football conflict.
