![]() ![]() I’m going to interrupt to provide a little background about a well shooter and a torpedo (leaving cloud seeding aside for the moment). He first traveled to the Texas Panhandle in 1920, while working with the United States Torpedo Company of Wichita Falls. “TEX” (1891–1949), well shooter and oilfield fire fighter. It was here that Tex Thornton, operating on the now debunked concussion theory, coaxed today’s inflation adjusted equivalent of $1 million from the locals on claims he could fire rocket-powered explosives into the clouds and cause rain.įrom the Handbook of Texas about Tex Thornton: Here’s something of some interest about Dalhart from Wiki:ĭalhart was in the center of the Dust Bowl, an area adversely affected by a long period of drought and dust storms during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Can anyone guess why Dalhart is called Dalhart? From Wiki:ĭalhart is a city in both Dallam and Hartley counties in the U.S. The operative word is “was.” So, I’m left with Dalhart. Ware was thirteen miles northwest of Dalhart in southern Dallam County. Here’s what The Handbook of Texas has to say about Ware: Of course, I must find a hook (which eliminates Texline). One of my ALAD rules is that the town I feature must be in the state where I landed, thus eliminating Stead & Sedan NM from competition as my titular town. Here’s a static GE shot showing (once again) my proximity to the TX / NM border:īack up on my local landing map, you can see Stead & Sedan NM along with Texline, Ware & Dalhart TX. Here’s my Google Earth (GE) flight in from space: So the Canadian flows to the Arkansas (116 th hit) on to the MM (841 st hit). Moving right along to part 2 of my watershed analysis: That landing wasn’t too far away (about 65 miles due north), but, obviously, these are two separate Carrizo Creeks.Ĭhecking back, I found that I’ve landed in the watershed of four Carrizo Creeks – one in Arizona and one in California in addition to the two discussed above. Hey wait a second – just two landings ago, I landed in the watershed of a Carrizo Creek in SE Colorado. I landed in the watershed of the Carrizo Ck on to the Rita Blanca Ck to the Punta de Agua Ck to the Canadian R (42 nd hit). I’ll zoom back a little and add the highways and towns: Looks mighty close to NM, eh? Let’s zoom in a bit: But hey, I’ll take this landing in the granddaddy of USers. ![]() Landing number 2140 A Landing A Day blog post number 568.ĭan: On the positive side, I’m 2 for 3 USers on the negative side, I’m only 2 for 8 USers. To find out more about A Landing A Day (like who “Dan” is and what the various numbers and abbreviations mean in the first paragraph), please see “About Landing,” (and “Abbreviations” and “Cryptic Numbers”) above. I do some internet research to hopefully find something of interest about my landing location. ![]() I call this “landing.” I keep track of the watersheds I land in, as well as the town I land near. First timer? In this formerly once-a-day blog (and now more-or-less a once or twice a week blog), I have my computer select a random latitude and longitude that puts me somewhere in the continental United States (the lower 48). ![]()
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