Irma evacuees find full hotels but a warm welcome in Georgia

ATLANTA (Reuters) - As hundreds of thousands of Floridians flee Hurricane Irma, people in the state of Georgia have opened their homes to strangers who emerged from hours-long traffic jams to find hotels and campgrounds booked solid.

Authorities in Florida have ordered about a third of the state's population, 6.3 million people, to evacuate ahead of the hurricane's expected landfall on Sunday. Some stayed put, but many left their homes. And many who drove to neighbouring Georgia initially had nowhere to stay.