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Hindu 0.5 On April 20 2010 The Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform Located In The Mississippi Canyon About 40 Miles (64 Km) Off The Louisiana Coast Suffered A Catastrophic Explosion; It Sank A Day-and-a-half Later It Was In The Process Of Being Sealed With Cement For Temporary Abandonment To Avoid Environmental Problems. Although Initial Reports Indicated That Relatively Little Oil Had Leaked By April 24 It Was Claimed By BP That Approximately 1,000 Barrels (160 M3) Of Oil Per Day Were Issuing From The Wellhead About 1-mile (1.6 Km) Below The Surface On The Ocean Floor On April 29 The U.S Government Revealed That Approximately 5,000 Barrels (790 M3) Per Day Five Times The Original Estimate Were Pouring Into The Gulf From The Wellhead The Resulting Oil Slick Quickly Expanded To Cover Hundreds Of Square Miles Of Ocean Surface Posing A Serious Threat To Marine Life And Adjacent Coastal Wetlands And To The Livelihoods Of Gulf Coast Shrimpers And Fishermen. Coast Guard Rear Adm Sally Brice O'Hare Stated That The U.S Government Will Be "employing Booms Skimmers Chemical Dispersants And Controlled Burns" To Combat The Oil Spill By May 1 2010 The Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts Were Underway But Hampered By Rough Seas And The "tea Like" Consistency Of The Oil Cleanup Operations Were Resumed After Conditions Became Favorable On May 27 2010 The USGS Had Revised The Estimate Of The Leak From 5,000 Barrels Per Day (790 M3/d) To 12,000�19,000 Barrels Per Day (3,000 M3/d) An Increase From Earlier Estimates On July 15 2010 BP Announced That The Leak Stopped For The First Time In 88 Days
. Jacinto City Obesity. In 2008 Houston received top ranking on Kiplinger's Personal Finance "Best Cities of 2008" list which ranks cities on their local economy employment opportunities reasonable living costs and quality of life the city ranked fourth for highest increase in the local technological innovation over the preceding 15 years according to Forbes magazine in the same year the city ranked second on the annual Fortune 500 list of company headquarters first for Forbes magazine's "Best Cities for College Graduates" and first on their list of "Best Cities to Buy a Home" in 2010 the city was rated the best city for shopping according to Forbes, Weiser Air Park in unincorporated northern Harris County.
. ! . In popular culture Houston has hosted several major sports events: the 1968 1986 and 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Games; the 1989 2006 and 2013 NBA All-Star Games; Super Bowl VIII Super Bowl XXXVIII and Super Bowl LI as well as hosting the 1981 1986 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals winning the latter two and co-hosting the 2005 World Series and 2017 World Series winning the latter NRG Stadium hosted Super Bowl LI on February 5 2017. Railroad map of Texas east of the 100th meridian (circa 1884), The League of Nations assembly held in Geneva Switzerland 1930 Asian: 3.8 percent (1.0 percent Indian 0.8 percent Vietnamese 0.6 percent Chinese 0.4 percent Filipino 0.3 percent Korean 0.1 percent Japanese 0.6 percent other Asian). In December southward-moving cold fronts can bring cold rain low wind chills and rarely frozen precipitation Early January is the coldest time of the year with temperatures moderating slightly by February Winter is also the driest part of the year for Houston.
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