Evidently there's something called a brazier grill (?) that out-of-Texas DQ's use that our's don't or vice versa. My brother lives in Denver and complains about that all the time.
It's a great place to be if you are in Oil and Gas and like doing what you do. Tons of ideas and innovation happen in that place. Maybe you don't stay in Midland for a lifetime, but it's a great place to go to get experience, work hard, learn how things get done, and make connections.NPH- said:TequilaMockingbird said:
Meanwhile Midland and Odessa (Midland and Ector County) have grown by 70K people. Make it stop!
Not enough money in the world to make me live there….
rwtxag83 said:It's a great place to be if you are in Oil and Gas and like doing what you do. Tons of ideas and innovation happen in that place. Maybe you don't stay in Midland for a lifetime, but it's a great place to go to get experience, work hard, learn how things get done, and make connections.NPH- said:TequilaMockingbird said:
Meanwhile Midland and Odessa (Midland and Ector County) have grown by 70K people. Make it stop!
Not enough money in the world to make me live there….
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"I've always heard that people cry when they move to Midland and cry when they move away," my sister-in-law Eileen said.
She was trying to make me feel better. It didn't work.
CanyonAg77 said:
Eastern New Mexico is lot like the Western Texas Panhandle.
Breakfast of Champions and late night food refuge for hundreds of square miles.Captain Pablo said:
Also, I have not reviewed this thread
Have we discussed the greatness of Allsups burritos?
Can we give them back El Paso in exchange? It's in the Mtn time zone anyway.techno-ag said:CanyonAg77 said:
Eastern New Mexico is lot like the Western Texas Panhandle.
One of the reasons of course is we snagged some of New Mexico when it became a state. Originally the border was to line up with the 103rd meridian at the corner of Oklahoma. But the surveyor started out and stopped part way. Later he came back, starting from Dalhart but he was off by 2.3 miles when he resumed going south. He never had a chance to correct the mistake because Indians scared him away before he could finish so he ball parked his findings.
That became XIT land and they realized they were going to lose something like 1000 square miles of land if the New Mexico border went in where it was supposed to. After intense lobbying the state line was drawn favoring Texas. Partly because President Taft went to college with one of the XIT investors and they were buds.
Anyway on maps you'll notice the state line is slightly off from Oklahoma's western corner. That's why.
The people out there are just great. It's like everybody is kinda stuck together in the wilderness, so you may as well be nice to each other and make the best of it.CanyonAg77 said:rwtxag83 said:It's a great place to be if you are in Oil and Gas and like doing what you do. Tons of ideas and innovation happen in that place. Maybe you don't stay in Midland for a lifetime, but it's a great place to go to get experience, work hard, learn how things get done, and make connections.NPH- said:TequilaMockingbird said:
Meanwhile Midland and Odessa (Midland and Ector County) have grown by 70K people. Make it stop!
Not enough money in the world to make me live there….
Just read a story in Guideposts magazine, about a woman who did not want to move to Midland...and did not want to leave.
https://www.guideposts.org/inspiration/inspiring-stories/stories-of-hope/god-opened-her-eyes-to-the-blessings-of-living-in-a-texas-oil-townQuote:
"I've always heard that people cry when they move to Midland and cry when they move away," my sister-in-law Eileen said.
She was trying to make me feel better. It didn't work.
Worth a read.
HtownAg92 said:
I didn't read all 6 pages, but if the small town populations are dwindling, how come schools like Stratford, Canadian, Spearman, West Texas High are so dominant at sports?
HtownAg92 said:
Yeah, but usually when the West Texas and Panhandle farm boys head south and east, they start getting out-athleted. Stratford and especially Canadian have managed to overcome.
I've seen some of the chronological maps of the Ogallala at Tech. Those maps paint a bleak picture of water for the Panhandle. Grapes of Wrath comes to mind.CanyonAg77 said:No.Thaddeus73 said:
Is the Ogallala aquifer holding up OK?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ogallala-aquifer/#:~:text=Today%20the%20Ogallala%20Aquifer%20is,keep%20up%20with%20human%20demands.
Elevation would be a problem. Over 3000 ft in most of the Panhandle, even though it appears to be flat.CDUB98 said:
We really need to start building pipelines to send fresh water to the Panhandle or those people are screwed.
CDUB98 said:
We really need to start building pipelines to send fresh water to the Panhandle or those people are screwed.
I also believe we should start force pumping caught rain water in the recharge zone and try to mitigate the loss some.
But, the politicians won't allocate money until there is a crisis. Forethought and planning lead to solutions, something politicians don't want.
Surface water is runoff. And, many/most aquifers are re-charged by runoff. Nature has @ filter system, but man has made them too. It's quite practical.Quote:
Do you really want to start pumping runoff back into the aquifer.
I remember that "gradual slope" quite well. It often made forecasting morning stratus at Cannon AFB (I was there twice) very challenging. It's called "upslope fog/stratus":Quote:
Over 3000 ft in most of the Panhandle, even though it appears to be flat.
Light winds from the southeast would flow over that "gradual slope" and the upslope fog/stratus would form. The question at the Cannon weather station was always "will it get here, or peter out between here and Lubbock". Of course, if it DID get all the way to Cannon, it would definitely impact the local flying, at least until mid-morning.Quote:
Upslope fog is formed when air flows upwards over rising terrain and is adiabatically cooled to its saturation temperature. Upslope fog is a type of hill fog. When viewed from below it will be seen as Stratus. As one ascends into the cloud, the visibility will appear as fog.
In cycling, we call that a false flat, and we hate them!agent-maroon said:
Very gradual slope, but technically not flat.
But yeah, semantics.
BoerneGator said:
I am not advocating artificial recharge. Just pointing out that it occurs naturally all over the world.
And, I think San Antonio/Bexar County Water officials experimented with recharging the Carrizo Aquifer in the past, but I could be misremembering.
BoerneGator said:
I am not advocating artificial recharge. Just pointing out that it occurs naturally all over the world.
BoerneGator said:
I am not advocating artificial recharge. Just pointing out that it occurs naturally all over the world.
And, I think San Antonio/Bexar County Water officials experimented with recharging the Carrizo Aquifer in the past, but I could be misremembering.
I got my MS in Meteorology at A&M in Dec 76 and started work at the AF Climatology Center in Jan 77. U of Wisconsin was trumpeting the "coming Ice Age" at the time. My boss was a Lt Col with a PHD from Wisconsin. His dissertatiion was about the "coming Ice Age" and he went to Geneva a couple of times to present his research at World Meteorological Oganization conferences.Quote:
I always think of that when leftists try to pretend they never said there would be global cooling.