One of West Texas’s greatest assets is the wind. It is also the most annoying. The women have learned to attach tiny little dress weights to our skirts. When the wind hits you just right, you’ll smell one of two things - cattle or oil. Take a drive down I-20 and experience the 29th reason we love West Texas. We have embraced all that Texas has to offer and we turned it into gold.
Two of the windiest cities in the United States are found in the West Texas region - Amarillo and Lubbock. We moan when just a few minutes outside ruins our hair, but when we look across the horizon and see the spinning white blades of wind turbines generating renewable energy, producing jobs and revenue for the economy, our frustrations disappear.