The Onion Slams Houston
R. Alex Whitlock
From the latest issue of The Onion:
Refugees Moved From Sewage-Contaminated Superdome To Hellhole Of Houston

HOUSTON—Evacuees from the overheated, filth-encrusted wreckage of the New Orleans Superdome were bussed to the humid, 110-degree August heat and polluted air of Houston last week, in a move that many are resisting. "Please, God, not Houston. Anyplace but Houston," said one woman, taking shelter under an overpass. "The food there is awful, and the weather is miserable. And the traffic—it's like some engineer was making a sick joke." Authorities apologized for transporting survivors to a city "barely better in any respect," but said the blistering-hot, oil-soaked Texas city was in fact slightly better, and that casualties due to gunfire would be no worse.

Awful food? Surely you jest.

Oh, and it's not August.
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SAM wrote:
In the late 1980's, Houston's own papers were proclaiming it the most polluted city in the nation [yes, I'm old, okay]... did that change much through the '90's?
9/14/2005
 
Kavey wrote:
sammler-

I believe it did change, thanks to LA, but we retook the title a few years ago.
9/14/2005
 
RAW wrote:
Yeah, LA and Houston have been racing one another for the distinction for a while now.
9/14/2005
 
Kavey wrote:
RAW-

Yeah, but it's really scary when you think about it. Houston is on a plain, and the coast, so there is always wind to take away the air pollution anyway. LA is a bowl with no place to release it's smog.
9/14/2005
 
RAW wrote:
Houston is a bit more refinery-rich, to say the least. And since Houston does more-or-less owe its prominance to the energy industry, it's hard to get too riled up about that. Houston also have humidity which traps not only, but even less pleasant things than that!
9/14/2005

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