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re: Anyone Have Experience Living in the Texas Panhandle?
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:18 am to Yat27
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:18 am to Yat27
Never lived there but played a baseball game in college in Abilene which is a little south of the panhandle. It was April and 45 degrees with and a windstorm. 40+ MPH winds blowing straight in from Left field. There wasn't a ball that went out of the infield on the left side. I know. CSB.
cliffs: Abilene weather be crazy...
cliffs: Abilene weather be crazy...
This post was edited on 12/26/14 at 11:21 am
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:40 am to CyrustheVirus
My Dad lived up that way near the old Phillips plant in Borger, TX for several years while he was working in the petrochemical biz.
Flat, flat land. Not a lot out there. Big reservoir folks use to put boats in and do the Lake thing. Lots of finished garages and boozing at home. Baptist Churches in number.
Tex Mex all day every day. Hispanic influence is expected. My Dad could call me from his backyard and see really severe weather a loooooooong way off and not even be worried as he knew it wasn't near him. Crazy to recall those convos.
He was a decent drive away from Amarillo, which was a combination of North Baton Roue now and South Baton Rouge 10 years ago when I visited him back in 1997.
Tons of cattle/open ranch land. You could see historical mile markers that noted the wheel ruts wagon trains had ground into the hills out there on the side of the highway stretching out into the distance.
Didn't strike me as anyplace I would want to move to unless the cash was right. My Dad told me a story where the FedGov did a "land giveaway" up near him to try and spur population growth and an increased tax base. They couldn't give it away. Literally.
Flat, flat land. Not a lot out there. Big reservoir folks use to put boats in and do the Lake thing. Lots of finished garages and boozing at home. Baptist Churches in number.
Tex Mex all day every day. Hispanic influence is expected. My Dad could call me from his backyard and see really severe weather a loooooooong way off and not even be worried as he knew it wasn't near him. Crazy to recall those convos.
He was a decent drive away from Amarillo, which was a combination of North Baton Roue now and South Baton Rouge 10 years ago when I visited him back in 1997.
Tons of cattle/open ranch land. You could see historical mile markers that noted the wheel ruts wagon trains had ground into the hills out there on the side of the highway stretching out into the distance.
Didn't strike me as anyplace I would want to move to unless the cash was right. My Dad told me a story where the FedGov did a "land giveaway" up near him to try and spur population growth and an increased tax base. They couldn't give it away. Literally.
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