The Transportation Security Administration predicts they will screen more than 18 million passengers between Tuesday and early next week. More than 3 million are expected to fly through Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Houstonians have yet this year to enjoy much of the so-called weather phenomenon known as "fall." This crisp, elusive season—sandwiched between "never-ending summer" and "false winter"—has poked through in bits and spurts over the last two weeks in Southeast Texas,