Embrace the Houston weather.
âOne of the biggest factors of Wings For Life is that everyone has their own conditions,â says Neff. âSo you might have somebody in Europe where the weather is actually quite nice, but in Houston it s awful. So that s a big, big factor, but last year I just decided to have fun with it.â Â
But there s a benefit to humidity, says Neff. âWe call it poor man s altitude,â he says. âThere is an actual physiological aspectâlike athletes go to altitude to train because it increases their red blood cell content, which is really the special formula for endurance running. But humidity has a similar effect in that it increases your blood volume. So you have more blood, which in turn has more red blood cells.
More New SPARK Parks Are on the Way
The nonprofit will debut 15 new parks and update 15 more over the next four years.
By
Gwendolyn Knapp
1/14/2021 at 6:00am
The new SPARK park at Horn Elementary in Alief.
Hereâs a little positive parks news for the new year:Â The Houston Endowment and Kinder Foundation have re-committed to supporting efforts to mitigate park deserts throughout Greater Houston by funding more projects from SPARK, the Houston nonprofit that was founded by Eleanor Tinsley in 1983, which transforms public school playgrounds into community parks.
SPARK has introduced 25 new parks (and updated five more) in our region since 2016, thanks in part to previous funding from the Houston Endowment and Kinder Foundation. These parks, spread across 12 independent school districts, including three charter schools, have allowed more than 82,000 Harris County residents to gain easier accessâa ten-minute walkâto a greenspace. Â
Finding the gifts of home
For Houston’s Puerto Rican population, a bittersweet Día de Reyes in a year without travel.
By Story and multimedia Marie D. De Jesús
Houston Chronicle
Finding the gifts of home
For Houston’s Puerto Rican population, a bittersweet Día de Reyes in a year without travel.
By Story and multimedia Marie D. De Jesús
Houston Chronicle
Published Jan. 1, 2021
Every year, at sunrise on Jan. 6, Marian Cabanillas would awake to mud and grass tracks inside her childhood home in Houston. Her father would say the reyes magos had come in the night and their camels had left behind the mess.
they have 120 pumps here. most of them are working, but about a dozen of them are not, so officials are trying to get those fixed right now, tom. gio benitez for us tonight. gio, thank you. and as we reported, the historic flooding from tropical storm harvey has transformed the city. take a look just behind me. you can see what looks like a river with the downtown skyscrapers in the background, and here is the same scene before harvey. it s really a very popular park. eleanor tinsley, the change in landscape is staggering. and the storm is not done yet. and abc s senior meteorologist, rob marciano, joins us from katy, texas with what the tropical storm harvey still has in store, rob. reporter: hey, tom. the rain, thankfully, lifting now, but winds are picking up. it s about 50 miles south of port arthur, texas, and heading towards the border. it should make landfall over the pass. look at the heavy rain falling across eastern parts of louisiana, and the heaviest it will be across