Kind of another bleak day yesterday, with plenty of wind and dust in the air. And now it turns cooler. April in Lubbock is not a pleasant season. Does Lubbock and the surrounding area ever have a pleasant season? Not really. Most of the time it's pretty grim.
And with the average annual rainfall on a steady decline, I expect it to become grimmer and grittier every year. The small towns around here will bite the bullet first. Most of them are astoundingly dilapidated. You have to wonder how they go on. Their economies are frequently tied to cotton/farming and ginning. And the lack of rainfall is hurting agriculture. Rural life in this part of Texas might well be on a death spiral. You look at some of these towns, and the decline is very evident.
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