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Originally posted by georgewallace3
Lubbock is horrible.....as is Texas Tech.......don't ever speak of this again. Hot weather.....freezing winters......incredible windiness.....dirt, dust, flatness....not to mention the city is pretty disgusting.
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Hey now...I live here. I have to speak of it....and I have to respectfully disagree w/your assessment...
I am generally not a Texas Tech fan so we might agree there (I only went there for law school). However, I can say that although I thought those other things you said were true before I moved here 5 years ago, I have been pleasantly surprised...the weather you mentioned has occurred here, but it isn't the daily norm (today we expect a record high of 85...light & variable winds). Actually, our average climate is very mild - summers are so much more bearable than any I spent for the first 30 years of life in Dallas...the nights cool down so that you need a sweater & we don't have SMOG (dust storms pass...Ozone alerts tend to stick around all summer in the metroglob)...winters are cooler, but not freezing by any stretch (Amarillo is colder and Midland/Odessa is hotter) we've only had one unbearably cold winter since I've been here, and that was the first one......dust storms are actually not the norm (although w/the lack of rain this year, we expect it to be one of the worst in recent history). It's worse if you live on the outskirts of town (e.g. your house was built on a cotton field), but we hardly noticed inside the loop. Dallas is as almost as flat as Lubbock - main difference is they have extra trees and a few hills...but they also have the pollen (which I can live without).... When I think of disgusting, I think of Houston...Lubbock is just sort of bland....
But, to each his/her own...like I said - I would have agreed whole heartedly w/your comments 6 years ago but now I know better....