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mere are eignt varieties ot poisonous snakes in Harris County, “Home of the Pygmy Rattler.” Pearland averages ninety-three days of temperatures over 95 degrees. The air quality is the second worst in the nation, following on L.A.’s smoggy heels. Houston is the second-largest port in the nation and leads the nation in international shipping...
We discover fire ants and learn to.never sit on the ground. We discover roaches and I incorporate a swatting routine into my morning workout.
We ei\joy the excitement of living next to an airfield for ultralights and helicopters. There’s constant, unremitting sound everywhere: the rumble of trains carrying everything from California fruit to Coal Tar, and the roar of jets landing and taking off from nearby Hobby International Airport. There’s a sense of something happening every moment of the day and night. Unfortunately, nights are filled with the incessant scream of sirens. The sound fills me with the same unnameable fear it did when I.was £ child. Ttying to return to sleep, I imagine the sounds of night at home - the chuckling queries of an owl, or perhaps a wayward pack of yodeling hounds.
Houston has much to offer in the
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