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Thunderstorms and downpours are expected to continue to douse the Houston area for the next few days as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico streams ashore.
The region gets a slight break from the storms later this week, but the rain will return by Sunday and early next week as a disturbance near the Bahamas moves toward the region, spreading showers into the area.
Today, a 40 percent chance of showers is forecast. The showers will be widely scattered, but areas south and west of the Houston metropolitan area can expect to see most of the wet stuff.
Most areas will receive between a quarter inch and three-quarters of an inch of rain, though some spots could record up to 1 inch in sudden downpours, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasters said a large low-pressure area near the Bay of Campeche is sending the showers into much of south Texas and the Houston region.
Health Department Roundup: Sometimes There's God Edition - Houston ...
Believe it or not, trolling the Houston Health Department website for tidbits about dirty floors, missing hand-washing signs and spoiled animal parts is not always an invigorating activity. But sometimes, as Blanche Dubois says, there's God. Take a look at page one under Full Service Restaurants this week.The fourth restaurant listed is called "some mexican food joint." Priceless. If the inspectors had checked 8201 La Porte Freeway on the online Yellow Pages, they'd have learned the "joint" is called Taqueria Marcelinas. We hereby cite the citers for poor fact-checking but salute them for making a dry public document more entertaining. Moving right along to some other naughty joints...
The Cactus Grill (16580 El Camino Real) was operating without a food dealer's permit, and the person in charge did not have a food service manager's certification on hand.
Angie's Country Kitchen (11708 Hempstead) in the industrial wasteland that may (please God) one day be a commuter rail corridor to Cypress and other points Northwest, stored utensils while they were still wet, stored garbage bins on an unpaved surface, and had window screens with holes in them.
Alexander the Great Greek (3055 Sage Road), due west of the erstwhile Transco--now Williams--Tower, has great fennel-filled bread, great Santorini Sigalis wine and great baby squid, but this week the restaurant not-so-greatly stored food in unlabeled containers, had no shatter-resistant coating for its artificial lighting and had openings to the outside unprotected from the onslaught of insects.
Lola is a brand-new place in the old Eckerd building in the Heights, at 1102 Yale. Members of Anytime Fitness next door have been wondering what kind of fruit is meant to stand in for the O in the Lola sign. It sort of looks like a peach and an orange and a tomato rolled into one -- and is there a bite taken out of it? Poor Lola's inaugural inspection turned up problems with exposed utility service lines, rough ceilings, gaps between the walls and floors, and poorly fitting toilet doors.
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