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Sleet and freezing rain are more common than snow in the Houston area While accumulating snow events are rare in Houston brief snow flurries occur every winter in the greater Houston area These usually have no impacts on travel as they are light brief and isolated Hail can accumulate but only in small quantities, Chronological Aldine ISD On March 2 1836 Texans signed the Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos effectively creating the Republic of Texas the revolt was justified as necessary to protect basic rights and because Mexico had annulled the federal pact the majority of the colonists were from the United States; they said that Mexico had invited them to move to the country but they were determined "to enjoy" the republican institutions to which they were accustomed in their native land; Germany lost a quarter of its pre-war (1937) territory Among the eastern territories Silesia Neumark and most of Pomerania were taken over by Poland and East Prussia was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union followed by the expulsion to Germany of the nine million Germans from these provinces as well as three million Germans from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia By the 1950s one-fifth of West Germans were refugees from the east the Soviet Union also took over the Polish provinces east of the Curzon line from which 2 million Poles were expelled; north-east Romania parts of eastern Finland and the three Baltic states were incorporated into the Soviet Union. Main article: Cuisine of Houston Toyota Center is home of the Houston Rockets. The Spanish flag of Burgundy, See also: List of Texas counties Commissioner Precinct 2 Adrian Garcia Democratic The land surface in and around the city of Houston is composed of alternating layers of red gray sandy brown and black organic clay; these strata generally dip to the southeast at a slope of 0.06% (3 feet (0.91 m) of vertical change for every 1 mile (1.6 km) of distance traveled). These soils were deposited by tributaries of local waterways particularly the Brazos and Trinity rivers. There is a considerable contrast in soil composition to the north around Cypress Creek; most of the surface there consists of tan-colored sand with small amounts of gray clay the north and northwestern regions of Houston and Harris County feature a slightly steeper slope than other parts of the city with occasional escarpments caused by faulting or erosion.
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