  Evacuees Out, Fans In at Some Hotels  The lines are long at
the Red Cross. For those evacuees in hotels, their time may be
short. And why? The Aggie fans are coming, for the game and for
hotels.  "Right now, it's a tragedy," said DeMarcus Sam of the
current evacuation situation. "I just can't understand, I don't
see that a football game is more important than a person's
life."  Sam and his more than three-dozen family members fled
Beaumont to B/CS. Now, they don't appear to have a place to stay
for the weekend.  "We just want to be housed until we're able to
go back home," said Ebony Lindsey. "I'm sure they don't want us
here anymore than we want to be here, but we're here, so now we
need that help."  But individuals and companies begin booking
rooms at area hotels and motels in excess of a year in advance
for Aggie games. Out of 17 area hotels we contacted, seven said
evacuees would have to relinquish their rooms, including the
Holiday Inn Express, whose manager is sympathetic to evacuees.
However, "it's