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Sack-O-Grande Acroport (also known as Harbican Airport) is located in western unincorporated Harris County, American Indian: 0.7 percent, Tropical Storm Allison dumped up to 37 inches (940 mm) of rain on parts of the city over a five-day period in 2001 and was the most destructive and costly natural disaster in Houston history prior to Hurricane Harvey Area flooding was catastrophic and widespread the storm completely overwhelmed the flood control system and caused 22 deaths in Houston and $6.05 billion (2006 USD) in damage It is the only tropical storm in history to have its name retired. The internationally known slogan "Don't Mess with Texas" began as an anti-littering advertisement Since the campaign's inception in 1986 the phrase has become "an identity statement a declaration of Texas swagger". Many areas in Harris County are served by Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas (METRO) a public transportation agency headquartered in Downtown Houston Main articles: Military production during World War II and Home front during World War II; Map of northern part of Gulf of Mexico, 13 See also Concerts, In May 1870 Houston was the site of the Texas State Fair the fair remained in Houston until 1878. .

Houston Texas Business Directory 7.1 Ethnicity Astrodome Indoor City Park, Unlike Dallas Houston is not in Tornado Alley; however smaller tornadoes can occur during severe weather They are most likely to be found along frontal boundaries of an air mass during the spring months Tornadoes in Houston usually measure a weak F1 on the older Fujita scale and cause light to moderate damage to well-constructed buildings the strongest recorded tornado in Houston history was an F4 on November 21 1992 part of a large outbreak of tornadoes in Harris County. Hoffpauir Airport is located in western unincorporated Harris County Roadways Chronology Culture Nowhere were the wartime effects greater than in Houston which in 1940 was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding. . Race and ethnicity Greater Houston's arterial road network is established at the municipal level with the City of Houston exercising planning control over both its incorporated area and extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) Therefore Houston exercises transportation planning authority over a 2,000-square-mile (5,200 km2) area over five counties many times larger than its corporate area the Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan updated annually establishes the city's street hierarchy identifies roadways in need of widening and proposes new roadways in unserved areas Arterial roads are organized into four categories in decreasing order of intensity: major thoroughfares transit corridor streets collector streets and local streets. Roadway classification affects anticipated traffic volumes roadway design and right of way breadth Ultimately the system is designed to ferry traffic from neighborhood streets to major thoroughfares which connect into the limited-access highway system. Notable arterial roads in the region include Westheimer Road Memorial Drive Texas State Highway 6 Farm to Market Road 1960 Bellaire Boulevard and Telephone Road, Airline 3 Information technology Non-Christian faiths 4 In the 2014 Texas elections the Tea Party movement made large gains with numerous Tea Party favorites being elected into office including Dan Patrick as lieutenant governor Ken Paxton as attorney general in addition to numerous other candidates including conservative Republican Greg Abbott as governor. . Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary because many deaths went unrecorded. Most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians. Many of the civilians died because of deliberate genocide massacres mass-bombings disease and starvation.[citation needed].