Why El Paso Is Left Out When People Think of Texas
By rebelann1949
@rebelann (113173)
El Paso, Texas
January 21, 2016 9:41am CST
I get the biggest laughs when I read what people say in reference to Texas. Somehow if there's a flood or tornados or whatnot in Texas they simply lump us all together and assume ALL of Texas is being ravaged by bad weather.
I thought I'd add a screen shot of a map of Texas to give those of you who may not know a glimpse of just how different my teeny corner is from the east end. Can you tell just how far El Paso is from those big cities of Dallas, Houston or San Antonio? Usually that's where all the bad weather is, here it's mostly hot and dry.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
21 Jan 16
We use to have that LP record and my father would play it like crazy in our old National stereo
, I can't find it perhaps it would fetch a price on ebay lol!
, I can't find it perhaps it would fetch a price on ebay lol!2 people like this
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
21 Jan 16
I've read that Texas was once an independent Republic, never really done some research, just heard that some people wanted to secede after the last economic down turn
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
22 Jan 16
@topffer great history, it's the first time I've heard that the French somehow were involved in Mexico, thanks a lot, now I'm inclined to do more reading, Acapulco was a sister city of Manila for about 300 years and my knowledge seemed to have stopped there, shame on me, oh yes I've read the war with Texas, I made more readings after watching " Texas rising" on one of the cable channels.
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Jan 16
Both Maximillian and Napoleon Bonaparte were over here during some kind of war that was going on @louievill I didn't read as much about them because at the time I was much more interested in what happened to the druids when the Romans invaded the UK.
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
22 Jan 16
I think it depends on where you are. I personally like that we're close to New Mexico which has a lot of interesting things to see like White Sands. It's just over 100 miles north of here so the drive isn't that long to get there. There's Gila Hot Springs in New Mexico which I've never been to and I don't think it's that far from here, certainly closer than Dallas.
Hot Springs in the Gila National Forest
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@DaddyEvil (140370)
• United States
28 Jan 16
LOL! I usually do lump all of Texas together, Ann! I usually think of it like I do most other states. None of the other states are even close to as big as Texas is and so weather going through, say, Missouri usually (but not always) hits the whole state.
Most of the time, if the weather doesn't hit our entire state, then the part here that doesn't get the weather is north of I-44! I live 12 miles south of I-44, of course! LOL!
In general, the only state I can think of that doesn't share most of it's weather is California...
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Jan 16
Wouldn't it be kool to grow veggies that big without getting such a short summer @DaddyEvil ?
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@DaddyEvil (140370)
• United States
30 Jan 16
@rebelann Yeah, I think of Alaska as freezing cold even though I've seen some of the giant vegetables they grow during their shorter summers up there! LOL!
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@marguicha (224750)
• Chile
26 Jun 17
@rebelann Very. I have been in Texas for a couple of days but went to San Antonio.
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
26 Jun 17
Oh you were in the pretty part of TX @marguicha it's so green there.
@Orson_Kart (6935)
• United Kingdom
22 Jan 16
Hey @rebelann!
Like most of the others, I mainly associate El Paso with that Marty Robbins song. I think it's great to have a song named after your city. I know you are sick of hearing it, but I love it. It has some fantastic lyrics. I particularly like "I caught a good one, it looked like it could run" haha.
Musical genius!
What I didn't know, because I've never looked, is where it is, and yes, you are way out on a limb from the other big cities that we all know about. I think it must be cool to live there (grass is always greener you know) I hope you do love it there. 
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Jan 16
Awww thank you. I do love it here it's the closest thing to a hometown that I've ever known, Army brat here.
Actually the grass is actually greener once you get past this desert area.
Still, it has a beauty all it's own that is hard to see if you're not really looking.
@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
21 Jan 16
It sure is. Sometimes I think we should be a part of New Mexico instead of TX.
@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Jun 16
Oh yeah @Ceerios I remember those dust storms that were tailed by rain, it happened mostly in East El Paso all we got in Northeast El Paso were the dust storms ..... you brought back memories of sand storms I'd forgotten about but now I recall walking home from school with the wind and sand at my back and boy did that stuff sting the back of my legs.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
11 Jun 16
@rebelann - Let me think a moment - I was on my first trip to El Paso on my new job for a company in the nuclear medical business, so it must have been in1966. I had rented a Chevy Corvair car and it was clean and shiny - until it rained mudballs all over it. Must have been a lot of dust in the air when the rain hit. 
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
7 Feb 16
I had a friend who lived there for a while, now I know why she moved to New Mexico, she must have just got lost one night...
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