Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Buddy Holly: The Day the Music Died" video.
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I drove to Lubbock one weekend for a wedding, and as we drove through the night, the radio gave a warning (before the internet, early 1990s) and said a tornado had just touched down in Sterling Texas and to take cover, NOW. right about that time, we passed a sign that said, "Sterling, Texas, Welcome!" The town was locked down tight, the electricity was obviously down and after we drove through town, we discovered the tornado...it had passed the road in front of us without our seeing it (until we saw the tons of mud and debris all over the freeway) and when I rolled down the window and was peering out, lightning lit up the sky and I saw the tornado in a field waay too close to where we were. Constant lightning kept up with it and really weird tendrils were reaching out from the funnel and the noise was incredible. We just floored it to get out of there. We must have hit a hundred and I was totally panicking, because the entire sky was practically down on top of us, swirling and reaching down. My husband had stuff to do driving, avoiding all the crap in the road at high speed. We made it to this big very old hotel in downtown Lubbock (I can't remember the name, but it was historic) just as another tornado warning went off announcing a tornado touching down outside of town. I didn't even care anymore. I had been so scared I had nothing left. I went to the bar, somehow sneaked a gigantic drink up to my room and brooded in the bathtub with it until I was cross eyed. It was great! The rest of the wedding party was celebrating down there, but I went to bed and happily passed out...I've seen tornados since, but Lubbock has the biggest ones I've ever experienced....
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@terryhamilton1196
Texas is a rare place...I was born and raised in the San Francisco Area, but I really love Texas...the people, the history, the incredible stories of the different events that happened here, I can never get tired of exploring the state. There is supposed to be a secret, but fabulous silver mine out in the Hill Country near us, and Jim Bowie led a party out to find it about a year before the fall of the Alamo...they were attacked by Indians and spent a couple of days pinned down right near our place...I've never been able to find exactly where they were, but I know that people were still skirmishing with indians in the early 1900s around Fredricksburg on occasion. There is a huge granite batholith called Enchanted Rock out there, and the indians believed that spirits of warriors would gather there. It was sacred to them, and when settlers started going out there and messing around, they usually drove them away. I've climbed it at night and there are some really weird noises and apparitions at the top. I think it's a natural phenomena, but it's spooky!!
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@DanielPatrickHogan
I think you're right! It was beautiful, a lot of old wooden staircases and an old, old elevator. There were really old TVs in the rooms. It was like 1890s meets the early 50s back then, but I really liked it. We went out to some vineyards for wine tasting the next day, and like Texas always is, after the storm, it was beautiful out the rest of the weekend. We have a place outside Fredricksburg, Texas, and there has been some bad storms out there, but it's hill country. There is just nothing like that flat land around Lubbock. So many talented musicians came from there, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, I don't know about Mac Davis, but he did have his own tv show in the 70s...I remember going to see Butch in Gruene, Texas a bunch of times....
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