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Flooding Is A Recurring Problem In Houston It Is Especially Severe In Low-lying Areas On The Far East End Of Town Along The San Jacinto River The Flat Wetlands And Paved-over Coastal Prairie Around Houston Drain Slowly And Easily Flood The Area Is Drained By A Network Of Bayous (small Slow-moving Rivers Often Dredged And Enlarged To Increase Volume) And Man-made Drainage Ditches Which Are Usually Dry Most Of The Year In Fall Cold Fronts Bring In Rainstorms And Flooding Is Not Uncommon This Might Flood Certain Low-lying Intersections But Doesn't Generally Affect Citizens Or The Business Of The City However Occasionally Very Heavy Thunderstorms Dump So Much Water On The City That Widespread Congestion And Even Property Damage In Low-lying Areas Result Tropical Storm Allison In 2001 Was So Severe That Many Parts Of Town That Had Never Flooded Before Were Flooded Seriously Interstate 10 Near Downtown Which Is Below Grade Was Covered By Over 10 Ft (3.0 M) Of Water Another Storm Happened In June 2015 (Tropical Storm Bill) That Had A Similar Impact On Houston Causing Several Highways To Be Closed Due To The Bayou Overflowing; This Event Followed Flooding From May 24�26 Another Similar Storm In April 2016 Resulted In Widespread Severe Flooding Across Houston And Surrounding Suburbs In An Event Later Known As The "Tax Day Floods" In Late August 2017 Hurricane Harvey Flooded Houston Causing Severe Widespread Damage And At Least 14 Deaths
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. Areas outside of municipal city limits (and some smaller municipalities) have fire and emergency medical services provided by Emergency Service Districts distinct governmental units with the ability to levy property and sales taxes ESD's may provide fire service EMS service or both (dual services) and the services they provide determine the limits on their adoptable tax rate. Throughout its history the Astrodome was known as a pitcher's park the power alleys were never shorter than 370 feet (113 m) from the plate; on at least two occasions they were as far as 390 feet (119 m) Over time it gave up fewer home runs than any other park in the National League the Astrodome's reputation as a pitcher's park continued even in the mid-1980s when the fences were moved in closer than the Metrodome which was long reckoned as a hitter's park. Houston Texas Business Directory 129 Dennis Paul Republican 2014 Clear Lake City NASA Johnson Space Center Southeast Harris County (including Seabrook and Webster), Waller-Harris ESD #200 Other Multiple Fire/EMS Agencies .0995 Surface water The Kuomintang (KMT) party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China in the mid-1920s but was soon embroiled in a civil war against its former Chinese Communist Party allies and new regional warlords in 1931 an increasingly militaristic Empire of Japan which had long sought influence in China as the first step of what its government saw as the country's right to rule Asia used the Mukden Incident as a pretext to launch an invasion of Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo. . .
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