The Houston Hurricane were a soccer team based out of Houston that played in the NASL. They played from 1978 to 1980. Their home field was the Astrodome. The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... Houston redirects here. ... In 1967, two pro soccer leagues started in the United States: the FIFA- sanctioned United Soccer Association and the unsanctioned National Professional Soccer League. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Reliant Astrodome, formerly just the Astrodome, is a domed sports stadium in Houston, Texas, and is part of the Reliant Park complex. ...
Houston was a city on the Gulf of Mexico, in the southeastern corner of Texas.
Houston is also the home of NASA mission control; the last message received from the former city was a distress call addressed to the crew of Apollo 13: "This is Houston.
The city of Houston was expected to be destroyed by Hurricane Rita, a category three hurricane which made landfall on September 24, 2005 to wipe out a Texas-sized chunk of the US along with what little was left of St.
Florida got slammed with four huge hurricanes last season; Louisiana thought New Orleans was going to be devasted by Ivan, which took a last-minute turn and battered Alabama instead.
Carla was the most intense hurricane to hit Texas in modern times, and it taught a generation of coastal Texans about how widespread hurricane damage can be.
Eleven members of the family were killed on Sept. 11, 1961, when Hurricane Carla demolished the house they were in at Bastrop Bayou, a few miles south of Angleton.
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