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re: Anyone Have Experience Living in the Texas Panhandle?
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:13 pm to Spankum
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:13 pm to Spankum
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I haven't lived there, but have spent a bit of time there for work. Honestly, I find it to be the harshest climate I have ever been around....either burning hot or freezing cold...and always a strong wind blowing dust and sand.... I like the people there a lot...good, down to earth folks
That was almost word for word how a colleague put it.
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The only.thing that I really didn't like is the lack of vegetation...growing up in the south, I am used to lush, green vegetation and I found myself missing that when there.... ..
I'm definitely going to miss the greenery of Mississippi. :(
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:31 pm to shutterspeed
Had a lady that lived in the panhandle ask me "u know what they call pretty girls up here?" - visitors.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 8:29 am to shutterspeed
I lived in San Angelo for 8 years. That's not panhandle, but my kids athletics gave reason for us to be up in the panhandle pretty regularly.
Our high school football district included Amarillo and Lubbock. We had to travel 6 hours for some of our away games, if you can believe.
Like everyone is saying, one of the harshest climates I have been around. Scorching hot... freezing cold... incessant wind.
I guess you can find some decent barbeque in Dumas and tex-mex in Amarillo, but otherwise expect a culinary wasteland. Seafood??? fagedaboutit.
I've been through Dumas... not much there. A lot of friggin trains. On the upside, if you ski, its not too bad of a run to Wolf Creek in SE Colorado, home to the highest average snowfall in CO. It's a really good mountain, just not a resort type place.
My advice: try to shack up with a nice country, Texas gal, and ride it out until your next opportunity.
Our high school football district included Amarillo and Lubbock. We had to travel 6 hours for some of our away games, if you can believe.
Like everyone is saying, one of the harshest climates I have been around. Scorching hot... freezing cold... incessant wind.
I guess you can find some decent barbeque in Dumas and tex-mex in Amarillo, but otherwise expect a culinary wasteland. Seafood??? fagedaboutit.
I've been through Dumas... not much there. A lot of friggin trains. On the upside, if you ski, its not too bad of a run to Wolf Creek in SE Colorado, home to the highest average snowfall in CO. It's a really good mountain, just not a resort type place.
My advice: try to shack up with a nice country, Texas gal, and ride it out until your next opportunity.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 8:32 am to shutterspeed
The stock yards in Amarillo has a lovely spring smell during those beautiful summer evenings....
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 8:34 am
Posted on 12/27/14 at 8:40 am to shutterspeed
My dad always said "the wind always blows there. There's nothing to stop it but a barb wire fence and two strands of it or down".
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:07 am to shutterspeed
Spent a few weeks in Amarillo once. I actually liked it, but if I was up that way I'd just be using it as a jump off to explore NM.
You're 5 hours from Cloudcroft, 4.5 from Ruidoso, 5 from Taos, 4.5 from Angel Fire, 4 from Santa Fe, etc.
You're 5 hours from Cloudcroft, 4.5 from Ruidoso, 5 from Taos, 4.5 from Angel Fire, 4 from Santa Fe, etc.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:14 am to shutterspeed
Lived in Canyon for 2 years. Very cold and windy during the winter. Hot and windy during the summer. Always windy, all the time. It's very dry. Not much rain, lakes or green. It's also very flat
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:18 am to bamafan1001
Lubbock sucks but Amarillo isn't bad
you aren't far from rolling hills and a couple hours from mountains
you get 4 seasons and people are very friendly
you aren't far from rolling hills and a couple hours from mountains
you get 4 seasons and people are very friendly
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:18 am to shutterspeed
Flatter than a tabletop,
Makes you wonder why the stopped here,
Wagon must've lost a wheel, or they lacked ambition, one
Makes you wonder why the stopped here,
Wagon must've lost a wheel, or they lacked ambition, one
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:22 am to Ric Flair
REK version > McMurtry version
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:29 am to jeffsdad
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Had a lady that lived in the panhandle ask me "u know what they call pretty girls up here?" - visitors.
When I read this post I thought of a girl I used to work with. A blond haired, blue eyed, smoke show born and raised in Amarillo
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:32 am to shutterspeed
Stayed in Amarillo for 2 days in November on the way to Santa Fe. We stayed for 2 days so we could check out Palo Duro Canyon which is about 20 miles south of Amarillo. Palo Duro was awesome and I would totally go there again and rent a cabin or tent camp.
I would never go to Amarillo again. Just seemed like the whole place was ghetto and it was windy as frick. There was absolutely nothing there, in Amarillo itself, that was interesting or cool in any way.
Just seemed like a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for most people.
I would never go to Amarillo again. Just seemed like the whole place was ghetto and it was windy as frick. There was absolutely nothing there, in Amarillo itself, that was interesting or cool in any way.
Just seemed like a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for most people.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 9:37 am to bamafan1001
We have family that live in Midland . West Texas people are hardworking , generous folks . The area has changed again with the fracking . Anyone that owns his mineral rights was making a killing until the price of oil dropped . The weather is unreal . The dust gets in every thing . I bought a 2012 truck from Stanton and ever time I turn on the AC I catch a whiff of it .
Posted on 12/27/14 at 10:49 am to Ric Flair
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Flatter than a tabletop,
Makes you wonder why the stopped here,
Wagon must've lost a wheel, or they lacked ambition, one
MY CSB: A few nights ago I walk to my neighborhood bar a block from my house, and there is James McMurty sitting there at the corner of the bar. He was just there by himself.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 12:26 pm to RedFoxx
Did like Midnight Rodeo in Amarillo because they had good bands come and play. There are good looking girls in the Panhandle so dont believe that saying quoted earlier.
Love the people there although they look at you funny if you have a southern accent. Palo Duro Canyon is awesome. Tylers BBQ in Amarillo and Green Chili Willies between Amarillo and Canyon are awesome eats.
Love the people there although they look at you funny if you have a southern accent. Palo Duro Canyon is awesome. Tylers BBQ in Amarillo and Green Chili Willies between Amarillo and Canyon are awesome eats.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 3:46 pm to shutterspeed
I am currently working living 55 miles northeast of amarillo,it is totally different from the real south
Posted on 12/27/14 at 3:53 pm to Lsu4thewin
Many, many years ago when I joined the Air Force, they had a meningitis outbreak in San Antonio so I got sent to Amarillo AFB for basic training. When I finished I went to a technical school for 8 weeks. You guessed it, Amarillo. After school I got my first assignment.
Beautiful Reese AFB 60 miles south in Lubbock.
First time I went home on leave I happened to run into my recruiter. I had had a couple of beers so I told him, "Join the AF and see the world huh??"
So far all I've seen is the phucking Texas panhandle.
Shortly thereafter I got an assignment to Nam. Left one hell hole for another.
Beautiful Reese AFB 60 miles south in Lubbock.
First time I went home on leave I happened to run into my recruiter. I had had a couple of beers so I told him, "Join the AF and see the world huh??"
So far all I've seen is the phucking Texas panhandle.
Shortly thereafter I got an assignment to Nam. Left one hell hole for another.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 4:15 pm to shutterspeed
Never lived there but have spent months at a time in Lubbock and Amarillo for work in places like Pampa, Borger, Hereford, et al. I liked the people but there wasn't a whole helluva lot to do. As previously posted several times - the wind rarely lets up and weather conditions can change at the drop of a hat.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 4:29 pm to JoePepitone
I remember a summer afternoon in July in Lubbock at the air base. We were playing golf. Hot as hell, not a cloud in the sky. 45 minutes later it was as dark as midnight, we got pounded by rain, then hail, then gale force winds, and then funnel clouds. Thank goodness none touched down.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 7:37 pm to Lsu4thewin
Thanks for all of the replies so far.
What kind of work?
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I am currently working living 55 miles northeast of amarillo,it is totally different from the real south
What kind of work?
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