Displaced Sandy families face hotel 'checkout'
Photo credit: Johnny Milano | Lea Kalodes has spent weeks living in this hotel room at the Best Western in Rockville Centre with her 19-month-old son because her home suffered extensive damage during superstorm Sandy. (Jan. 10 2013)
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Nearly 1,000 Long Island households displaced by superstorm Sandy are waiting to find out whether their federal funding for hotel rooms will be extended beyond Sunday.
That's the current "checkout date" for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's transitional sheltering assistance program, a spokesman for the agency said. However, the spokesman, John Mills, said Thursday that a decision...
