Moving to Lubbock from Houston on June 1st. Hoping to miss hurricane season here and the bulk of tornado season in Lubbock because the place we are moving to has no storm shelter :-(.
I think we are supposed to get sever weather but the bulk of it will be to the North and West of Houston.
Lubbock is a wonderfully conservative High Plains town set in the middle of a giant cotton field. My family lived there for about four years and loved it. Great city. Just before we moved from Lubbock in the mid-1980s, my daughter and I were eating dinner at a small cafe. It was April and storms were expected that evening. The cafe had a small radio playing in the background and, above the normal cafe chatter, we heard the person on the radio say something about "on the ground." We quickly finished eating and left. As we drove northwest on the Loop on the southwest side of the city in front of us, but outside the City, were two of the most impressive tornado funnels I had ever seen. These were huge white clouds and trailed each other like marching soldiers. Luckily the tornadoes did not damage the city but instead tore up some things at the local Air Force base to the west of the City.
As you may know, tornadoes are common place on the Texas High Plains and Lubbock has had its share of really bad ones, e.g., the F5 tornado of 1970. While we lived there we lost a roof to a hail storm which is something I worry more about than tornadoes. In all though, Lubbock is still one of the best cities in Texas and is a good place for families.
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