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(Katrina) Survivors Get Homes and Jobs in Lubbock
KCBD TV (NBC Affiliate) ^ | 9/9/05

Posted on 09/09/2005 8:07:16 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana

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To: McGavin999

Don't forget the Thai, Vietnamese, awsome pizza & calzone (One Guy from Italy!), barbeque, steak houses, etc.


21 posted on 09/09/2005 9:24:23 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

didja figure it out? (that personnel matter).


22 posted on 09/09/2005 9:34:12 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: hispanarepublicana

I think that I have deduced what you were trying to say.


23 posted on 09/09/2005 9:43:10 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: hispanarepublicana
"I like to work in the kitchen and see the food being made."

An over seer of cooking....is that a job? I hate when people watch me cook.

24 posted on 09/09/2005 9:47:30 PM PDT by Feiny (I am not mean. You're just a sissy.)
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To: hispanarepublicana

The worst thing about Lubbock is the current "orange-cone plague," huge construction projects underway simultaneously on all 3 of the town's major traffic arteries. Besides those, there is the MacDougal inspired orgy of housing construction that clogs the roads with contractor trucks and clouds of dust. To top it all, small isolated outbreaks of orange cone madness are likely to break out anytime anywhere in the city, with miniature road destruction projects popping up overnight to torment those drivers and businesses that have escaped the main outbreaks.

At one time, you could get anywhere in Lubbock in 15 minutes, but it now takes longer than that to get from my home on 21st street to our office on North University. (for outsiders, this is considerably less than half way across town).

The plague has spread to outlying areas during the summer months. The other day, I had to drive from Crosbyton to Lamesa through Lubbock and was TWICE delayed by contractor dump trucks that had managed to high-centeri themselves while trying to cross the median in a construction zone, thereby blocking both traffic lanes.
One of these was near Crosbyton and the road was blocked for 20 minutes as crews struggled to move the truck and its low-hanging gondola dump trailer. They finally hooked onto it with a giant roller machine and drug the truck-tractor sideways to open one lane. Its tires were probably ruined in the process. The other, near Tahoka, was stuck for about 10 minutes before the crews uncoupled the trailer and drove the tractor out of the lanes it had been blocking.
On West 19th, the plague zone extends for miles, with the orange cones blocking one lane each way right out into the dim boonies at the city limit.

Of course, Lubbock traffic engineering has done nothing to adjust its "famous forever lights" to these new conditions. I have it on pretty good authority that one of the senior traffic engineers suffers from the delusion that traffic light timing exists primarily to "calm the traffic"; that is, slow it down. I don't know if the traffic is calm, but absurdly mistimed red lights and insanely long cycle times do anything but calm local drivers.


25 posted on 09/09/2005 9:58:17 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (This message prepared with MS-CBS Word 72 software)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
What are you 110 years old? lol........I was at Tech in the late 70's and it was very integrated by then....... I am 63. I started at Tech in 1960. I went horseback riding at a place on 50th st. My father was offered the land at 34th and University (it was College then) for $100 and thought it was too much money. Big mistake! We went to the ceremony when they completed the TV towers out around 82nd, and they were out in the country with not a house in sight. Reese AFB was home to B25 bombers. The Lubbock Airport was used for training glider pilots and the terminal was tiny. Ah, well, I guess old age is making me nostalgic.
26 posted on 09/10/2005 4:35:38 AM PDT by arjay (May God give President Bush strength and comfort in this time of struggle!)
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To: arjay

Whoops. Sorry for the italics. I forgot to close the tag.


27 posted on 09/10/2005 4:38:39 AM PDT by arjay (May God give President Bush strength and comfort in this time of struggle!)
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To: arjay

But I thought Lubbock Tx was one of America's most conservative cities.


28 posted on 09/10/2005 4:40:27 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: hispanarepublicana
What are you 110 years old? lol........I was at Tech in the late 70's and it was very integrated by then.......

Let me try again...

I am 63. I started at Tech in 1960. I went horseback riding at a place on 50th st.

My father was offered the land at 34th and University (it was College then) for $100 and thought it was too much money. Big mistake!

We went to the ceremony when they completed the TV towers out around 82nd, and they were out in the country with not a house in sight.

Reese AFB was home to B25 bombers.

The Lubbock Airport was used for training glider pilots and the terminal was tiny.

Ah, well, I guess old age is making me nostalgic.

29 posted on 09/10/2005 4:42:51 AM PDT by arjay (May God give President Bush strength and comfort in this time of struggle!)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Perhaps its a case of dishwasher with "Chef" in his head.


30 posted on 09/10/2005 4:52:53 AM PDT by I_dmc
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To: arjay
Wow, Lubbock changed a lot even between 1960 and 1977 - I was picturing all the areas you described - Anytime we tease my Mother about not purchasing land or something, as in your Father's situation, she always says "Who had $100 back then?".........

When I was there in the late 70's the land past the Loop was mostly homes - I don't recall much else at all out there. I love Lubbock and would move back there in a second if I could. My daughter is a Sophmore at Tech so at least I get to visit her several times a year.

31 posted on 09/10/2005 6:30:47 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: atomic conspiracy

The traffic light system does suck; but, the orange cones are just a sign of growth.


32 posted on 09/10/2005 6:51:04 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: Army Air Corps
Have you ever driven up to the window out at Pedros Tamales by the Strip? Not that I think you would be near the strip, nor would I.......... ;^)

I can buy those tamales at HEB here in Houston but they are incredible when you buy them fresh and hot out there!

33 posted on 09/10/2005 7:03:50 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: stocksthatgoup; arjay

Arjay was referring to 1960


34 posted on 09/10/2005 7:07:13 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

During the local business fair in the Civic Centre, the Pedro's Tamales booth is one of the most popular and one of the most crowded.


35 posted on 09/10/2005 7:15:49 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

I can imagine....... way back, long ago and far away, when my alter ego used to "visit" the Strip, we always went to Pinkies for BBQ and then occasionally stopped for a dozen steaming tamales............ ;^)


36 posted on 09/10/2005 7:17:52 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Now, Pedro's sells packed meals in the local grocery stores and they are pretty tasty.

And, yes, I have been to the strip a time or two, but I have very rarely bought anything. Usually, I go there to show the newbies just how wonderfully gaudy it is. Also, I have been out there on City business - procuring hooch for parties and functions.


37 posted on 09/10/2005 7:26:30 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Uh huh


38 posted on 09/10/2005 7:27:48 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

When the City sponsored an annual music shindig, they had a reception for the musicians. The reception included booze purchased on the City's dime. I had to drive a van out to The Strip and load it with booze.

As for me, I am too cheap and too busy to buy stuff at The Strip. That, and I imbibe in great moderation.


39 posted on 09/10/2005 7:34:05 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Me too - my old friend wouldn't recognize me now......;^)


40 posted on 09/10/2005 7:58:37 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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