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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Someone with evacuees in their house was asking about long-term hotels last week. I'm sorry I can't recall quite who. I was curious - is the family still with you or are they someplace else now? 'Cause I was wondering if you were going to find yourself, de facto, "volunteering" to keep them sort of long term.
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It was me. They have moved temporarily into an Extended Stay America since my brother-in-law has a job and has been transferred to the Houston office of his company. They are looking for an apartment. If the New Orleans office is reopened, they intend to go back (not to Jefferson Parish, but to a lot in the country that they had already purchased and intended to build on). However, I believe their stay in Houston will extend greatly beyond the six months or so they now intend, mainly because I think it will take at least a year to find a contractor to even start on the house, given the demands on labor and materials. We may now be taking in his parents for a longer stay, as they finally made it to other relatives. (For future reference, it really sucks when the place that you evacuate TO to escape a natural disaster also loses power, water and phones for several days).
