Could have been worse I guess. It wasn't a once in a billion years unprecedented generational apocalyptic bomb cyclone unlike anything that will ever be seen again in the entire history of planet earth. No, it was not one of those. We get those several times a year but not this time. By Sunday we might hit eighty degrees F but winds will be bad. Winds will be bad every day for at least a week. This part of Texas is a shithole, elevated to about 3000 feet above sea level, mashed flat and scoured by wind. Very flat and very featureless but a shithole nevertheless. Disregard the elevation. A shithole is a shithole. And Lubbock is right in the middle of that windswept void. Not much you can grow here except cotton, and even that is becoming a difficult crop due to the lack of rain. Dryland cotton is just about impossible anymore. And irrigation is using up irreplaceable ground water, water from an aquifer that won't recharge in a thousand years. I remember when there were fields of sunflowers! I remember when farmers around here even planted corn! I remember when the average annual rainfall was eighteen inches!! Wow!
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