How bad does it bother you? Prefer it over the humidity of Central or East Texas? Think it is as big of a deal as some make it out to be?

It's not NEARLY as big a deal as it's made out to be. Yeah, it gets dusty occasionally, but that just keeps out pollution, Yankees and other riff-raff.

Actually, there are MANY MANY more nice clear sunny days than high winds and brownouts.

FTR, I've lived in West Texas (Brownfield and Lubbock) all my life, with the exception of the time spent at A&M.

I grew up in Brownfield. When were you there? The wind and dust can be annoying on several days during February - April, and a few days in May. Beyond those months, it really doesn't seem to be much of an issue to me.

'59-'70 Moved to Lubbock when I was 11.

I used to date someone from Lubbock, and she would always insist to me that the wind wasn't really that bad. Usually she would have to shout to me (over the wind) to get her point across.

But seriously, I never thought it was all that bad. It was usually windy, but nothing overwhelming.

Of course, that depends on your definition od windy.

Right around 20 mph right now, but that's just kinda breezy.

sucks when you wanna play a game of Ultimate Frisbee,,,,other than that not a big deal

techaggie

I was born in 1971, so I guessed we missed each other during our Brownfield stints.

for me it was when it would last for 2 or 3 days.... the dust clouds would hover and the wires would whistle and howl.

But the that dust... man it made me sick as a dog sometimes. Not sure I could deal with that again.

I guess the solution is to move away during the spring, and move back starting in the summer.

I spent 20 years on the plains growing up, and the wind did not seem to bother me, then I came back for another 10.

But after being down here near Houston for awhile, I do not mind the humidity as much as I do the wind and dust when I go home.

I never thought I would say that.

The wind can be aggravating at times (particularly when you're trying to spray weeds and you're trying to keep drift to a minimum), but I really think it's an issue that gets overblown (no pun intended). Most of the time I don't think it's a problem, and IMHO, a constant breeze is much more preferable than Southeast Texas humidity.

And as I told someone during one of the Lubbock dust storms this past year, I like living in a place where you occasionally feel like you've accomplished something just by surviving a day.

Plus it gives us names like the Amarillo Sandies, Floydada Whirlwinds, Lamesa Tornadoes, etc.

sucks to play tennis in it, right?

West Texas wind reminds me why pioneer women went insane and sometimes killed their young.

Damn right bigfoot!

Yeah, it gets dusty occasionally, but that just keeps out pollution, Yankees and other riff-raff.


Amen.

Heh Good point. When I was living in Houston, a native Houstonian was telling me the three natural disasters that Houstonians feared most (keep in mind this was during an oil boom when the steel industry up north was cratering).....

3) Tornado

2) Hurricane

1) U-Haul with Ohio license plates

Another good ole days rant - things that don't happen like they used to:
Getting out of school early so the busses could run in the sandstorm.
Shovelling out the carport and hauling the field back to the end of the street.
Training my East Texas wife to put the glasses down in the cabinet so the dust does not accumulate in the bottom(this stilll does'nt happen)
Knowing by the 4th grade who had Hygiea water and who didn't

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Training my East Texas wife to put the glasses down in the cabinet so the dust does not accumulate in the bottom(this stilll does'nt happen)

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This was the way it was always done at my house as a kid, and I do it at my house in Lubbock. It never occurred to me that anyone did it any different.

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sucks to play tennis in it, right?

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or play golf ...

I built up some powerful leg muscles as a kid and teenager, riding my 10-speed into a 30 mph headwind (at least 1/2 the time)

All in all, I found the wind to be a relatively minor annoyance (living in Canyon, the dust was never that bad). I would gladly take the WT wind over the Gulf Coast heat & humidity. It usually gets pretty beastly by early June, and July and August are positively brutal. You don't really acclimatize to it so much as you adapt to it as best you can (such as mowing the lawn within 90 minutes after sunrise or in the last 90 minutes of usable light at the end of the day) ...

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Knowing by the 4th grade who had Hygiea water and who didn't

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Only someone from the Panhandle would understand.

but wasn't it fun at recess to flip your coat up above your head and make a human windsail so you could run about twice as fast as normal

Let's not forget bringing the blade into town to lower the yard back to level with the sidewalk. Took 4 inches of yard off the time we did it. Also, Mommy always saying" If the winds not died done by 5, it's gonna blow all night", and it did, and as the wind hollowed, ""somebodies getting a tornado and blown away today", and there usually was one in another part of the country.

Well boys, here's the deal these days. My wife and I are suffering from cabin fever brought on by two weeks of rain. We live in BROWNFIELD!

Moved back to Brownfield from Houston in 2000. Never saw this much rain in Houston.

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Never saw this much rain in Houston.

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Were you not living here during October 1994?

BTW, I figure I saw more rain during Tropical Storm Allison (May 2001) then I saw the entire time I was growing up in Canyon ...

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Brownfield, TX! Home of the Cubs. Class of '90 here.

WestTexas... I have children who were BHS classes of 83, 86, and 88.

Brazos... yes, we were living in Houston in Oct. of 1994. Refresh my memory. Was that the year that all of the Aggie football games were played in the rain?

Very likely ...

Southeast Texas 1994

Rainfall for TS Allison, TS Frances, October 1994 Floods

However, the only college game that I recall with any clarity from that season was the UT-Rice game at Rice Stadium (the historic Debacle in the Rain), which had been moved to a Sunday night to accomodate the ESPN broadcast. I couldn't get my wife to go with me to that game, so I invited a friend from the office (who happened be an Aggie). So what could be worse than sitting in the pouring rain, watching your team get beat by Rice? Watching the game with a friend from a rival school who's thanking you for the free ticket and telling you how he'll tell his grandchildren about how he was there on that great historic night when Rice beat Texas, blah blah blah ...

Back to Panhandle weather: I seem to recall some heavy rainfall in 1964? 1965? that caused flash flooding in Palo Duro Canyon, and they had to use a helicopter to evacuate some people because the water crossings were so high ...

And then there was graduation night in May 1978, when the graduating class of Canyon High School (and family and friends) was practically trapped at the WTSU Fieldhouse by heavy rains that made many of the streets impassable. I remember someone getting on the PA and saying "Any of you who live in Amarillo, you might as well stay here until the water goes down because the DPS says Buffalo Hill looks like a waterfall right now" (or words to that effect). And again, there were campers stranded out at PD Canyon ...

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I think it was 99 or 2000 that nearly every game was in the rain.

power.... I really think it was 1999 that we sat through many rain soaked games for the Ags.

I think you are correct.

Wasn't it 1996 when the lady got hit by the fridge box during a sand storm and killed?

1998 was the rainy football season...Big XII champs.