Lubbock always has strong employment and a diversified economy. If anything kills Lubbock it'll be aquifer depletion, and that looks to be unavoidable. We just don't know when that will be exactly. Sooner rather than later, I would think, because of the relentless building boom. The wells we depend on WILL go dry. And that will put a stop to Lubbock, as well as Lamesa, Tahoka, Spur, Brownfield, and many other towns in Texas.
Some of these warehouses appear to be abandoned, like many Lubbock homes.
At least, there are a lot of places here for people to work, unlike many of the very small towns around here, where you have to wonder how people survive.
I'm reminded of an old Lou Reed album...
Rest awhile. Set a spell.
Just make yourself at home.
Lubbock has many warehouses.
I'm not knocking this. People need jobs and only a very small number of jobs are ever going to be elite, ivory tower things, purely intellectual, and free from any taint of sweat or danger or compromise.We found this transformer farm a few weeks ago. Try to live without hardware like this. Try to sanitize the manufacturing process. Try to beautify a transformer. Good luck with that
Power for the people, yes.
When I finish this batch of abandoned homes I'll switch for a while to Industry On Parade. We found a place bristling with security cameras, ribbon wire, and its own water tower for fire suppression. Makes you wonder what might be stored there. My guess, and it's only a guess, is enough ammonium nitrate to blow half of Lubbock sky high. Good luck finding out for sure.
Lubbock has a lot of abandoned homes. Lubbock has a substantial homeless population. But there is no effective mechanism in place to patch up those homes and put homeless people into them. Some local churches are doing what they can, however. And there are Habitat homes in various places. The need is great.
These structures probably can't be salvaged...
