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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (91315)6/22/2001 7:20:14 AM
From: Micawber  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
You Houstonites really know how to promote your town:

June 22, 2001

In Hazy, Humid Houston, the Mosquitoes Are Winning. Big.

By JIM YARDLEY

The Associated Press

HOUSTON, June 21 — Clarence Watkins, a head lineman for Reliant Energy, the local utility, considers himself at war.

He works in the afternoon and evening — what might be described as mosquito prime time in this city still recovering from huge rains and flooding — and defends himself with a style of slapping and leg-kicking akin to Irish line dancing.

nytimes.com