Lubbock Texas

happiness is Lubbock Texas in the rear view mirror. Sorry, had to.

 

Lubbock smells like cow ####

 

I'm a Texas girl through and through and even I have to admit there's nothing good going on in Lubbock.

Well.... Wind powered electricity perhaps.

Coming back from a horse show in Amarillo one year, we got caught up in a hail storm from Hades just south of Lubbock. Absolutely destroyed the pickup - every window and the windshield was shattered, the hood and roof were battered beyond description. My stock trailer lost all the lights on it and the roof was torn up so badly there were actual holes in it. Fortunately, we had sold the horse I was showing at the show and the trailer was empty.

To quote Yosemite Sam... Ah hatez dat place.

 

Most companies that would be considered decent jobs/gigs in a lot of markets in the US are having a hard time finding decent help because of oil and gas.

You’ll have better luck landing a local gig that’s not oil field related in Midland/Odessa vs Lubbock in West Texas but the cost of living is way lower in Lubbock and overall in my opinion a much nicer town.

 

Lubbock is a difficult town.

Ive been or we rather as a husband wife team, have been lucky when we passed through.

However Mother Nature is not exactly kind above that town on the interstate. The storms with the winds are ferocious. I rather deal with tornadoes that walk the valley a few miles distant passing by than those storms above that town.

I strongly believe that if I had to live in that town, the mental health would decline. There isnt anything there to get into really. Sorry to be so difficult. Ive found Armarillo to be somewhat better. (Or rougher depending on who you run into...)

 

Am through there all the time. Have done quite a few 34s there last year. All the truck related services and regular civilian services I’ve used were staffed by friendly people.

I very much like the people I meet in the Panhandle as well as western Oklahoma, Kansas, etc.

Oil field service jobs have been a feature since the 1950s, nothing new, there. Wind tiers are the new addition to all that.

Like all of rural America much comes down to who owns the land. Lubbock is in the middle of the greatest cotton-growing land on earth.

The jobs that remain for the rest of us are ancillary.

Lubbock is also home to Texas Tech University. 30,000 students, maybe more. It’s not an ordinary city.

And the Panhandle is also home to enormous beef operations. Dairy just a ways north and east.

Helps to understand that it’s a giant open air factory. All of it.

That it’s flat and windy just makes it more difficult some days.

 

The last time I was in Lubbock I spent 8 hours backed up to a dock waiting for a load of powdered milk in totes and I was mad as hell. Haven't really wanted to go near there again.

 

88-bales of cotton from the compress. Another standard load. (Maybe not that many, but it’s impressive).