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Good morning, Houston. Sure, we've had a lot of rain, but there haven't been any hurricane scares yet — so it's pretty easy to overlook the fact that we're headed into the peak of the 2007 hurricane season. Not that easy, though: The Chronicle's Eric Berger reminds us that there's still some storm activity in the Atlantic, including a system 650 miles east about 650 miles east of the southern Windward Islands that could...

Good morning, Houston. So what was the last bonus gift you got at work? A fruit basket? Maybe an engraved Space Pen? Well, if you worked for La Porte-based Texas Stress, you might have ended up with a Harley: Gary and Joni Hagar, the owners of the company, rewarded each of their top 10 employees with $21,000 and told them to pick out their own hogs. "I've never heard of a boss doing this...

As bad as Monday's flooding was for people who had water in their houses, the city's improved drainage system proved that it's working by helping contain some of the water in the area with the heaviest rainfall, the Chronicle reports today. The article focuses on Sims Bayou, a part of which has been widened — though the project won't be finished until 2009, it saved between 500 and 1,000 nearby houses Monday, the Harris County...