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Slaton Farmer Confidently Gambles Entire Livelihood on Lubbock Weather and Middle East Stability

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:35:50 +0000

It’s that magical time of year in the Hub City metroplex where local cotton farmers are frantically drag-racing the clock to dump seeds into the dirt before Friday’s crop insurance deadline. Because nothing says “sustainable economic foundation” quite like a panicked dash against bureaucratic cut-offs, all while praying the West Texas wind doesn’t just blow [...]

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Mission Accomplished: Lubbock’s Genius Strategy to Ensure Our Roads Still Flood Anyway

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:31:25 +0000

Great news, Lubbockites! City Hall has been working tirelessly on “years of planning” to fix our notorious infrastructure, and they want you to know they’ve completed several major projects to move rainwater more efficiently. They’ve successfully connected a bunch of playa lakes in South Lubbock and linked the Medical District to the Canyon Lakes system. [...]

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Lubbock Emergency Response: 56 Years Later, We’ve Finally Reached a Staff of Five

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:51:46 +0000

It’s that time of year again when we dust off the grainy photos of the 1970 F5 tornado to remind ourselves that the sky actively hates us. While we honor the 26 people who lost their lives, we also have to appreciate the peak West Texas survival “plan” of the era. Survivor Larry Aguallo recalled [...]

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Lubbock’s Own Dustin Burrows Leads the Brave Fight to Keep Texas Summer Camps Incommunicado and Hazardous

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:57:21 +0000

Remember last year’s catastrophic July 4 floods? The ones where 137 Texans tragically drowned, including 25 children at a Hill Country summer camp who couldn’t be reached because cell towers were down and emergency responders had no way to warn them? In a rare, fleeting moment of actual governance, the Texas Legislature passed a law [...]

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We’re #1! Texas Leads the Nation in Utility Shutoffs Because Who Needs Electricity in a Desert Anyway?

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:40:26 +0000

Crack open a warm, un-refrigerated beer, Lubbock, because Texas has officially taken the crown. According to a depressing new federal report, the Lone Star State led the entire country in residential electricity shutoffs, racking up over 3 million disconnections. We also swept the competition in natural gas shutoffs, because why settle for just being hot [...]

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Dry Heat, Dry Pools: Lubbock Perfects the ‘Concrete Hole’ Aesthetic for Summer 2026

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:24:00 +0000

Congratulations, Lubbock! We’ve officially achieved our goal of becoming a literal desert with zero oases. The city recently announced that for the 2026 season, public pools will remain exactly as they’ve been since 2024: bone-dry concrete pits suitable only for skateboarding or heatstroke. Clapp Pool, our final holdout of municipal hydration, has officially been declared [...]

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Texas Graciously Grants You a Three-Day Discount on Not Dying During the Next Dust-Induced Apocalypse

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:09:23 +0000

Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock—filling in for whoever usually handles our impending doom—wants you to know that from April 25 to 27, the State of Texas is briefly suspending its habit of nickel-and-diming you so you can actually afford to survive the next weather-related catastrophe. It’s the “Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday,” a 72-hour window [...]

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Lubbock Opts for the ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Approach to Fire Prevention

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:52:15 +0000

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever seen a Lubbock driver navigate a four-way stop, county officials have decided that while every single neighbor we have is currently under a burn ban, we’re just… not. As of Wednesday, Hockley, Terry, and Lubbock are the lone holdouts in a region currently famous [...]

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Mother Nature Clearly Hates Idalou, Local Peaches Scheduled for Early Execution

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:45:39 +0000

In today’s edition of “Why Do We Even Try to Grow Things Here?”, our friends over at Idalou Harvest are currently engaged in a desperate, tear-filled battle against the bipolar disorder that is West Texas weather. While the rest of us were just complaining about having to find a light jacket, the farm’s cherry crop [...]

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Lubbock: Where Your Paycheck is Fat, but Your Soul is Flat

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:21:13 +0000

Oh, joy. Another “study” has come out to tell us what we already feel every time we look at a horizon that hasn’t changed since the Mesozoic era. WalletHub just dropped its happiness rankings, and our beloved Hub City managed to snag a glorious #135 out of 182. That’s right—we are officially in the bottom [...]

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Congrats, West Texas: We Finally Realized Infrastructure Actually Matters

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:06:42 +0000

Two years after the Smokehouse Creek Fire turned a million acres into a charcoal briquette, our local “workhorse” politicians gathered in Plainview to take a victory lap for finally doing the bare minimum. State Rep. Ken King and the West Texas delegation are bragging about a “strongest-ever” slate of legislation, which is a nice way [...]

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Dust, Fire, and Zero Water: Lubbock Completes the ‘Old Testament’ Bingo Card

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:02:12 +0000

In case you haven’t stepped outside and immediately had your retinas sandblasted, the U.S. Drought Monitor has confirmed that Lubbock County is officially spending its third straight week in a “severe drought.” It’s a nice, consistent look for us—sort of like the “Check Engine” light on a 2004 Chevy Tahoe that we’ve all learned to [...]

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The Brick Trailer Park: An Autopsy of the Hub City’s Soul

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:04:48 +0000

If you have ever driven down Slide Road at 5:15 PM, dodging a lifted Ford F-250 that is currently occupying two lanes while emitting a cloud of unburnt diesel particulate that would make a Victorian chimney sweep cough, you have experienced the essence of Lubbock, Texas. We like to pretend we are a “metropolitan” area. [...]

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Landlord Forgets to Pay the Bill, City Tries to Freeze Residents for ‘Legal Reasons’

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:43:15 +0000

In a shocking twist that surprised absolutely no one familiar with North Lubbock real estate, the residents of a Thunder Sun mobile home park were recently forced to play a high-stakes game of “Will I Freeze to Death?” This time, it wasn’t because of a grid failure, but because their landlord apparently treated their utility [...]

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ERCOT Says “Relax,” Lubbock Remembers 2021 and Side-Eyes the Thermostat

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:36:19 +0000

A big cold snap is rolling into West Texas this weekend, and state officials are out here doing their best impression of a calm flight attendant during turbulence. According to Electric Reliability Council of Texas, there’s “sufficient generation” to handle winter demand. Which is reassuring in the same way “probably fine” reassured everyone right before [...]

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Ice, Ice, Sprinkler: How Lubbock Turns a Cold Snap into a Contact Sport

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:15:18 +0000

Lubbock officials are begging—again—for residents to stop running sprinklers during freezing weather, because spraying water onto streets and sidewalks when it’s below 32 degrees turns the city into a low-budget ice rink. Code Enforcement says runoff during cold snaps is a serious hazard for drivers and pedestrians, which feels less like a warning and more [...]

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Second-Hottest Year Ever, Christmas at 86°, and Eight Tornadoes for Flavor: Lubbock’s 2025 Weather Was Totally Normal, Probably

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:57:46 +0000

According to the National Weather Service, 2025 was the second-warmest year ever recorded in Lubbock, narrowly losing the gold medal to 2024 because apparently we’re speed-running climate records now. Eleven out of twelve months were warmer than normal, capped off by a Christmas Day high of 86°F, which is a festive way of saying “shorts [...]

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Anthrax Is Back, Y’all: Briscoe County Rings in 2026 With a Quarantine and a Dead Steer

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:39:11 +0000

Just when you thought the Panhandle couldn’t get more festive, regulators confirmed anthrax in a steer up in Briscoe County, a few miles north of Silverton. The case popped up December 31, because apparently even livestock wanted to end the year on a high note. The property is now quarantined, the carcass must be disposed [...]

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Lubbock Checks the Weather Records, Confirms: Christmas Still Mostly Dirt-Colored

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:11:47 +0000

Every year, the National Weather Service dutifully reminds Lubbock of something residents already know deep in their wind-chapped souls: we don’t get White Christmases—we get “dry, windy, and vaguely disappointing.” According to more than a century of data, Lubbock has only managed 15 Christmas Days with snow on the ground or falling, which is about [...]

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Lubbock Winter Forecast: Dry, Warm, and Perfect for More Dust

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:18:21 +0000

NOAA’s latest outlook says La Niña is back—again—and she’s still not bringing rain to Lubbock. The winter forecast for December through February calls for below-normal precipitation across West Texas and above-normal temperatures stretching from the desert Southwest all the way to Florida. In other words, expect more of that classic Lubbock combo: warm, windy, and [...]

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Three Months Later, Lubbock Still Waiting on Roofs and Windows After June Storm

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:20:34 +0000

It’s been three months since the June 5 storm ripped through Lubbock with hail, high winds, and even a tornado, and homeowners are still stuck in construction limbo. In the Cambridge Way subdivision, resident Donna Hamil says her house took a beating—windows blown out, roof damage, the whole package. And she’s hardly alone; nearly every [...]

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Lubbock Finally Builds Tornado Memorial, Only Took Half a Century

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:11:30 +0000

Fifty-one years after an F5 tornado flattened huge swaths of Lubbock, the city has finally put up a shiny new memorial downtown. At the dedication ceremony, families of the 26 people killed in the 1970 storm were honored, with flowers handed out by the mayor and city council — because nothing says “sorry for your [...]

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