Lived in Lubbock before many on here were born. You are correct. Was there for one of those awful winters. Will never forget it. Nothing to stop the wind. Brutal.
The joke is that the only thing between Lubbock and the North Pole are a few barbed wire fences. I was there for the record snowfall of 1983. 18” in one storm and 36” on the year. We drove around the streets in pickups with a water ski rope and snow skis on. Epic times. Adolph Coors had something to do with it.