We drove around town Sunday and visited a site on 50th, between I-27 and Ave. A. Hidden behind trees is another playa lake. The drainage ditch allowing run-off to enter this small lake also provides a driveway for folks who want to back up to the lake and dump trash, illegally, of course. Lubbock and Lubbock County are just full of these little illegal dumps. Judging by the food containers and blankets and pillows scattered around, this area has served as an encampment for Lubbock's large homeless population. Interestingly, every hard surface is littered with broken glass, mostly beer bottles. Maybe this is someone's effort to prevent the homeless from sleeping there. Maybe it is a party ground for worthless teen punk trash. We don't know. But we took photos of the area. In most cities an open area like this would be ripe for development. Unfortunately, this site is on the "wrong" side of town, on the wrong side of Lubbock's traditional color/income divide. Not only will it not be developed, it won't be cleaned up.
Yes, snow and record cold. This is what our neighborhood looked like yesterday morning...
It's unusual to have this kind of weather, here, at this time of year.
I'll finish the scenic beauty of Lubbock's East 4Th Street today, as the city becomes immobilized by a fairly heavy snowfall. Less than six inches of snow will pretty much put Lubbock in a state of suspended animation. It doesn't happen very often and we are just not equipped to deal with such quantities of snow. It never sticks around very long anyway. So on the days when the snow is heavy (for us) and the temps are in in the teens, why not just hunker down? WE are hunkered down, that's for sure.
Today we just have more abandoned homes and failed businesses, of which there are many in this part of town.
And that is the end of my photo series for a while, as we wait for better weather. I guess I could go back and dig through my archives...
We stopped to take in the scenic vistas! So many scenic vistas!
This abandoned house had a very good solid wooden door and an antique dresser inside. Naturally, we left those things alone. But we were surprised no one had tried to steal that stuff.
This final pic tells you a lot about the underpinnings of the local economy.
If we ever go back to Acuff I guess we'll be heading for that Steak House, but I kind of hope not, because we are just not too keen on that Steak House.
Does Acuff have a Health Department, to check on sanitary conditions, or the lack of them? Does anything like that get done in small, small, really small, towns? I just don't know.
That's it for Acuff. On the way back to Lubbock I found a few things to photograph, typical of what you see on that side of town. I'll get to those tomorrow.
