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Mittens

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Someone in the comments said those were likely empty, and I feel like that makes sense on one level (the blowing over and sliding so far), but can't imagine they are transporting hundreds of empty containers around.  

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texashorne

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53 minutes ago, Mittens said:

Someone in the comments said those were likely empty, and I feel like that makes sense on one level (the blowing over and sliding so far), but can't imagine they are transporting hundreds of empty containers around.  

The are returning East to load with more product. This is the most efficient way to move them empty back to origin. 

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SimonBolivar

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9 hours ago, MAUFRAIS said:

Greatest West Comma Texas trainwreck ever:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_at_Crush

When I was a library delivery worker at BU there was this giant painting about the Crash at Crush that was in the basement of Carroll Library (Texas Collection)

 

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It always brightened my day to stop and look at it for a minute or two.

 

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24 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

Terry Co. >> Bailey Co.

I always liked how so many of the towns around Lubbock are two-word descriptors combined into a one-word name.

  • Brown. Field.
  • Level. Land.
  • Sun. Down.
  • White. Face.
  • Shallow. Water.
  • Little. Field.
  • Mule. Shoe.
  • Plain. View.

I like to picture an exhausted old cowhand leaning up against a rock, looking at his barbwire fence handiwork and struggling to summon the energy to slowly pronounce the name of the last one just: POST.

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Steel Shank

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1 minute ago, bolverk said:

I always liked how so many of the towns around Lubbock are two-word descriptors combined into a one-word name.

  • Brown. Field.
  • Level. Land.
  • Sun. Down.
  • White. Face.
  • Shallow. Water.
  • Little. Field.
  • Mule. Shoe.
  • Plain. View.

I like to picture an exhausted old cowhand leaning up against a rock, looking at his barbwire fence handiwork and struggling to summon the energy to slowly pronounce the name of the last one just: POST.

You're a wise man. New Home says "Suck it, y'all!"

 

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Steel Shank

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15 minutes ago, bolverk said:

That's Cap. Rock.

But don't get me started on those pinko commies living up there in New Deal.

Well
I'm a high straight in Plainview
Side bet in Idalou
An a fresh deck in New Deal
Yeah
Some call me high hand
An some call me low hand
But I'm holdin what I am…The Wheel

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On 9/19/2024 at 4:44 PM, Mittens said:

Someone in the comments said those were likely empty, and I feel like that makes sense on one level (the blowing over and sliding so far), but can't imagine they are transporting hundreds of empty containers around.  

Even if the containers were full, the boxes likely had the smallest possible items inside a gigantic box filled with those puffy air things. 

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