10.2.1 Consequences of obesity Genocide concentration camps and slave labour Houston Rockets NBA Basketball Toyota Center 2003 18,023 Houston generally receives ample rainfall averaging about 49.8 in (1,260 mm) annually based on records between 1981 and 2010 Many parts of the city have a high risk of localized flooding due to flat topography ubiquitous low-permeability clay-silt prairie soils and inadequate infrastructure. During the mid-2010s Greater Houston experienced consecutive major flood events in 2015 ("Memorial Day") 2016 ("Tax Day") and 2017 (Hurricane Harvey). Overall there have been more casualties and property loss from floods in Houston than in any other locality in the United States the majority of rainfall occurs between April and October (the wet season of Southeast Texas) when the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico evaporates extensively over the city. The space shuttle atop its Boeing 747 flying over NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston is located 165 miles (266 km) east of Austin 112 miles (180 km) west of the Louisiana border and 250 miles (400 km) south of Dallas, According to the U.S Census Bureau the county has a total area of 1,777 square miles (4,600 km2) of which 1,703 square miles (4,410 km2) is land and 74 square miles (190 km2) (4.2%) is covered by water. Both its total area and land area are larger than the state of Rhode Island. Northcliffe 2 Background Pacific Islander: 0.1 percent, Within Mexico tensions continued between federalists and centralists in early 1835 wary Texians formed Committees of Correspondence and Safety the unrest erupted into armed conflict in late 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next two months the Texians defeated all Mexican troops in the region. Texians elected delegates to the Consultation which created a provisional government the provisional government soon collapsed from infighting and Texas was without clear governance for the first two months of 1836, As of 2014 the Houston area has relatively fewer national chain restaurants compared to other U.S metropolitan areas due to the number of established local restaurant operations Famous restaurateurs include Jim Goode and Ninfa Laurenzo as well as the families of Molina's Pappas Restaurants Carrabbas and the Mandola's restaurants. As of 2009 Walmart was the largest employer in Houston with 31,900 employees the second-largest was Administaff (now Insperity) with fewer than 21,900 employees. . 1900 3,048,710 36.4% Black-and-white drawing of a man shown from mid-chest up He is wearing a military jacket with a high collar, Japanese prisoner-of-war camps many of which were used as labour camps also had high death rates the International Military Tribunal for the Far East found the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1 per cent (for American POWs 37 per cent) seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians. While 37,583 prisoners from the UK 28,500 from the Netherlands and 14,473 from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan the number of Chinese released was only 56, Adjacent counties I-45 (TX).svg Interstate 45 a.k.a - North Freeway going North or Gulf Freeway going South.
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