Lubbock Sights 14

 Well well it warms again. Screw winter. Tired of it. No rain, and the drought rolls on. If these dry conditions prove to be a new normal, it is hard to see how Lubbock and the small towns around Lubbock survive. Can the well fields support a city like Lubbock, with no surface water reservoirs? Everything seems to be predicated on enough annual rainfall to sustain those reservoirs. How about a declining water table for the near surface wells used by most of the small towns around here? How much more water can be pulled from an aquifer that, for all practical purposes, in terms of a human life span, does not recharge?? It's a finite resource. Nobody wants to think about such things. Onward and upward bigger and better boosterism will smash into a wall at some point. It won't be pretty.

There is a very high probability that the future will look like this.

Lubbock Sights 13

 I would never have imagined, when I took these photos, that things would become so screwed up in the relatively near future. Oh well. Nothing I can do about it. Winter isn't giving up. Cold crap again. No rain no rain no rain. Dry dry dry. 

Lubbock is over-built and over developed, in my opinion. The available water resources won't support a population like this for very long. It can't be done. I hope I'll be gone before this house of cards comes crashing down. And it will. I guarantee it. The only unknown is the precise timeline. You could say the same thing about human civilization. A bang or a whimper? Either way, it goes away. 

Lubbock Sights 12

 Gee, it got kind of cold this morning. I changed my routine a bit so I could stroll down memory lane. Cloudy and windy and cold but above freezing. We had only a  light sprinkle in lieu of desperately needed rain. So it goes. Supposedly it will clear later and warm up a bit. Weather forecasts are largely worthless.

Yes, a dash of color on a gray day.

Lubbock Sights 11

 Clear skies, warming nicely. but a bit windy today. The early part of next week will be somewhat cold but, as usual, there will be no precipitation of any kind and the drought continues. 

This might be a very dry Spring, and if that is so, we are in bad shape. Really bad shape. 

Lubbock Sights 10

 I get to spend more and more time outdoors, getting more and more accomplished around here. After the weekend a bit of a wintery turn is expected but nothing like the last one. 

These are now more like Lubbock AREA sights. And the photos were taken years ago. By this time I'm sure everything is much improved-- fixed up and painted up and rehabilitated beyond recognition. But I'll never know for sure because I'm not going there again. Never, ever.