Morning Roundup: Those blasted bugs edition

Good morning, Houston. We freely admit that we don't like bugs, so we've tried quite a few home extermination methods — but we've never blown the roof off our house while doing it like Patricia Espiricueta of Galveston did. It seems Espiricueta was fed up with her home's roach problem, so she set off five bug bombs and left the house. While she was gone, the fumes hit a pilot light and exploded, lifting the roof off the house and separating a rear addition from the main part of the home. "It sounded like an explosion, or like a car had crashed into the building," neighbor Corinna Carubba told KTRK. The damages totaled about $15,000; there's no word on whether Espiricueta solved her bug problem, but she said she would try a different approach next time. "I'm not going to use [bug bombs] no more," she said.

>> No room at the inn? Just wait: As part of the city's effort to make Houston a top convention destination, officials are looking at the possibility of building another downtown convention hotel, the Chronicle reports. "The current convention center hotel is filling up, and Houston can attract more conventions if it had more hotel rooms in the Central Business District, and specifically, close to the George R. Brown Convention Center," Mayor Bill White said Monday. The hotel might be located at the north end of Discovery Green — essentially, a mirror of the Hilton Americas, the city's first convention hotel. It's not clear how big the hotel might be or what brand it might operate under, but White said it would be "one of the larger hotels in Houston," and city hotel corporation Chairman Richard Campo said the project could bring the city $250 million annually.

>> Today's weather: If you're the kind of person who likes rainy, cold weather, boy, are you in luck. Expect a lot of clouds and a 50 percent chance of rain today, with an afternoon high struggling to reach 50 and a brisk north breeze. Tonight, the showers will linger as temperatures drop into the lower 40s. Enjoy!

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