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re: RURAL TEXAS: Towns DYING A Slow DEATH - Far Off The Interstate
Posted on 12/9/22 at 7:02 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 12/9/22 at 7:02 am to Street Hawk
I lived in Tulia, TX for three years in high school in the mid 90's. It was a worn out town then and is even worse now. The panhandle is a rough place. But can't beat the big open sky on the Caprock!
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Posted on 12/9/22 at 7:19 am to Street Hawk
Now do East Carroll and Winn parishes.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:32 am to Street Hawk
Was interested in this thread and took a look a Google Maps of Floydada. Zoom out a small amount and the area around there looks like a Kandinsky print. What causes the concentric circles? Is it a long string of irrigation lines that is rotated in a circle?
Also, if the area isn’t circle shaped, it looks like a bunch of holes. Was that for well testing and some drilling?
Also, odd satellite geography around Panhandle, Tx.
Any insight is appreciated.
Also, if the area isn’t circle shaped, it looks like a bunch of holes. Was that for well testing and some drilling?
Also, odd satellite geography around Panhandle, Tx.
Any insight is appreciated.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:34 am to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:Gat dang California homo transplant
There's a county up there where like 20 people voted and only one person voted Democrat.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:37 am to Skeet Mc
quote:work camps where Biden plans on shipping booster non-compliance Baws
Was interested in this thread and took a look a Google Maps of Floydada. Zoom out a small amount and the area around there looks like a Kandinsky print. What causes the concentric circles? Is it a long string of irrigation lines that is rotated in a circle? Also, if the area isn’t circle shaped, it looks like a bunch of holes. Was that for well testing and some drilling? Also, odd satellite geography around Panhandle, Tx. Any insight is appreciated.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:40 am to Skeet Mc
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s it a long string of irrigation lines that is rotated in a circle?
Yes.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:45 am to Street Hawk
That’s an issue / trend nationwide, worse in the South
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:47 am to Street Hawk
I've been binging this Ytube channel the past few days. Great content, especially his drive through Louisiana.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:47 am to Chingon Ag
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I’m originally from a small place like this in west Texas. Lived near Amarillo for just over a decade and worked in agriculture so I know these towns and counties well. Great people and if you are just driving through on your way to skiing in CO you might think little to nothing of these places but the folks in or around these towns are supplying America with food. Yeah maybe not the life your most of y’all but most of them enjoy it as they are a good distance from cities with their problems. They certainly aren’t asking for anyone’s pity.
Couldn't agree more. Very close friend of mine is a big farmer outside of Happy. It's brutal place to farm out there on the Caprock. Fighting for every drop of water and having to use sprinkler systems.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:53 am to PetroBabich
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Great places to scoop up cheap land and get the hell away from everybody
I was curious about this idea so I did some looking and there are some really huge tracts for sale at around 1k/acre.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 8:53 am to Potchafa
Got stuck in one of those small towns for a week one spring. Wind came up and it was unsafe to drive the motor home. Reward was finding a century old hard ware store in the town that had all of the pre digital age stuff.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:16 am to LSU alum wannabe
Lol. There may now be two people on this board who know where Chester is. Squarely wedged between the sprawling metropolis of Barnum and Camden.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:27 am to Street Hawk
This ain't just rural Texas, it is rural anywhere.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:27 am to Street Hawk
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I visited several rural, Texas towns in the North West area of the state,
Booooo this man!
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:29 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Great places to scoop up cheap land and get the hell away from everybody
then what?
Get paranoid about the "government" and post a lot on PT.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:36 am to Lakeboy7
Ever get caught in a tumble weed storm? Thats crazy shite. A tumble weed will frick you at 25 mph!!!
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:49 am to Obtuse1
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When driving down from Denver headed to Amarillo after you get of the I-25 at Raton Pass and onto US-87 there is a long stretch of tiny little dead towns one after another.
Dine that drive many times and there is only 1-2 gas stations between Raton and Dalhart. Also, for whatever reason that stretch of road is marked as some sort of speed enforcement corridor but I've never seen a cop. Other than the small towns I cruise around 102 because I'm the only car on the road.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:56 am to Obtuse1
quote:Dalhart, TX looks like a big city compared to everything else within 2hrs of it.
When driving down from Denver headed to Amarillo after you get of the I-25 at Raton Pass and onto US-87 there is a long stretch of tiny little dead towns one after another.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:56 am to H2O Tiger
spent a lot of time in pampa, shamrock, perryton and canadien when the Barnett Shale was booming. it is hard living up there but great people
Posted on 12/9/22 at 9:57 am to Marciano1
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Dalhart, TX looks like a big city compared to everything else within 2hrs of it.
I've never been happier to see a Love's Truck Stop
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