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Antenna Farm for Texas Telenauts | RXTX, Texas Panhandle

[backroadmemories]

[thegreatplainsdrifter]

she may not look like much, but she’s what i call home. i’ll see you tonight, texas panhandle. 

[justlivingamongstbreathers]

Typical Texas panhandle photo.

[abstrakshun]

Edward Burtynsky

Pivot Irrigation #18, High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA  -  2012

[sixpenceee]

A texas panhandle tornado lit up by lighting.

[earthstory]

This massive dust storm, known as a haboob, was spotted from the vantage point of an aeroplane flying at 38,000ft, northwest of Amarillo in Texas.

A haboob is a wall of dust which usually occurs as a result of a downburst; air is forced downward and is subsequently pushed forward by the front of a thunderstorm cell. This movement of air causes dust and debris to accumulate as it travels across the terrain. This wall of dust can be up to 100 km wide and several kilometres in height. At their strongest, haboob winds can travel at 35–100 km/h and they may approach with little or no warning, lasting as long as 3 hours.

-Jean

Image courtesy of Ryan Scott

[voldiebuns]

Texas Gothic: Texas Panhandle

Dust devils swirl down the road. You keep an eye on them, avoiding their path. They don’t look dangerous, but you know looks can be deceiving.

You’ve been driving for hours but the landscape hasn’t changed. Everything is flat and yellow-green and you begin to wonder if you’ve gone anywhere at all.

A tumbleweed rolls down the side of the road. You stop to let this four foot tall tangle of branches pass before you go on. You have the strangest feeling that something is watching you, but there is nothing around but the tumbleweed.

There’s a statue of Ronald on a horse in front of the McDonald’s. “That’s how you know you’re in Texas,” you say with a smile that’s more like a grimace. You feel like its eyes are following you.

The sky is bright blue and you think it should be cheerful, but it’s not. The sun beats down without mercy. You have not seen a cloud in days. The heat creates shapes on the pavement and you hope you’re beginning to hallucination. The alternative is far worse.

“Road work ahead” the sign says. You drive for an hour but see nothing. “Road work ahead” the sign says. You begin to wonder if there’s something you’re not seeing. “Road work ahead” the sign says. You see a single orange cone on the shoulder. “End road work” the sign says.

Clay cliffs stretch put over either side of the road. As you drive they seem like they’re closing in, but that’s ridiculous. Its just dirt. You drive faster.

[southwestcollectionarchives]

On April 14, 1935, one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl roared over the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, blotting out the sky and lifting over 300 million tons of suffocating dirt into the air. The day came to be known as Black Sunday.

This is a photograph of the storm rolling over Spearman, Texas.

[furtherlightandtruth]

Welcome to Big Bend National Park.

I spent the two days here, down in the southern tip of the West Texas pandhandle. Lots of majestic views, flora, and fauna.

[nicktaurojr-deactivated20180531]

Texas Panhandle diptych

[therassle]

The countryside was all dried up and it frayed the roots of my family.

[ch00o1nkiii11i1-deactivated2022]

Heavy black clouds of dust rise over the Texas Panhandle during the Dust Bowl in this image captured by photographer Arthur Rothstein - 1936

[akontoff]

[thunderstruck9]

Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Texas Panhandle, Route #66, c.1953. Oil on board, 7 x 10 in.

[lizziechen]

[77389]

Strata

[receivetexas-blog]

#Texas #Telenauts are #radio #astronomers, but they're a little bit more. Running the dial on the Texas Program Radio they have to track a whole slough of folks.