# So in places where it gets good and hot, why wouldn’t you have a basement?

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**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-in-places-where-it-gets-good-and-hot-why-wouldn-t-you-have-a-basement/925827 "2020-11-17T22:05:38Z")\
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> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> 31 posts (and half of them about Texas) and no one had yet mentioned the basement of the Alamo?

That’s how the whole discussion about basements started in the first place in the linked thread in the OP. 😉

> [@Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6252):
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> [The Alamo got a basement in the 1990s](http://gwmitchell.com/trivia-question-does-the-alamo-have-a-basement/), of course being an 80s movie it missed it, but Pewee did get a tour later… smile[[Pee-Wee Herman Finds The Alamo Basement] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwzbEMPba24)

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