Official Photo Thread for El Paso (San Diego, Reno: living, moving, air quality)

[Earl Turner]

Can somebody post a picture looking over the river from El Paso at dawn?
You get to notice these really thick clouds that choke El Paso/Juarez an stay they until they get blown away by wind by 10am.
Really beautiful. Or how bout the dust storms that envelope this city for two months out of the year. Everything covered in dirt and you can hardly breath the air, and the gusts of hot stinking wind blows over 18 wheelers on the freeway. Gotta love it.
Or take a picture of every single large parking lot in El Paso filled with trash. And a bum on every corner.
Oh, and every time it rains it floods every street for a day. Been here 9 years and the same spots have still never ever been fixed.
Its just so beautiful, if you are into that whole 3rd world feel.

[Chuco]

Originally Posted by Earl Turner

Can somebody post a picture looking over the river from El Paso at dawn?
You get to notice these really thick clouds that choke El Paso/Juarez an stay they until they get blown away by wind by 10am.
Really beautiful. Or how bout the dust storms that envelope this city for two months out of the year. Everything covered in dirt and you can hardly breath the air, and the gusts of hot stinking wind blows over 18 wheelers on the freeway. Gotta love it.
Or take a picture of every single large parking lot in El Paso filled with trash. And a bum on every corner.
Oh, and every time it rains it floods every street for a day. Been here 9 years and the same spots have still never ever been fixed.
Its just so beautiful, if you are into that whole 3rd world feel.

Or how about taking a picture of all the whiners in this town, there are so many of them here already.. why not take a picture of them too?

[HIGH!Lonesome]

During the winter season the air gets traped over El Paso/Juarez and forms a diversion layer of smog over the both cities, either until the southernly or westernly winds kick in and blow the stuff away,then there will be clearness and the cycle repeats itself till around springtime when the dust storms roll around, thats mother nature doings, El Paso has no control of that, and if you think the gust of wind is bad there, you should see the gust of winds in the Sierras of California, now thats really bad.

Theres trash everywhere not just El Paso, I can go outside right now and theres trash on my street or discarded furniture, and I dont live in El Paso, I live in a great American city just like you do, and bums did you say bums, we got them to, so no hard feelings.

On the rain part, El Paso went through an unexpected experiance with the storm of 06, it dont rain that often there for starters so the city is'nt really prepared for such events
so why build a huge rain drainage canal when it only rains so much less than what it would actually serve it purpose.

El Paso is beautiful mostly to happy go lucky positive thinking people, and their sweet smiles surely deserves a photo.

[mando111]

Whoa. HIGH!Lonesome and Chuco, did you see that Earl Turner posted the exact same reply in the "Is This What Most of El Paso Looks Like?" thread? Word for word.

Every city has its good and bad. But there are some views in El Paso that can only be described as breathtakingly beautiful.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by Earl Turner

Can somebody post a picture looking over the river from El Paso at dawn?
You get to notice these really thick clouds that choke El Paso/Juarez an stay they until they get blown away by wind by 10am.
Really beautiful. Or how bout the dust storms that envelope this city for two months out of the year. Everything covered in dirt and you can hardly breath the air, and the gusts of hot stinking wind blows over 18 wheelers on the freeway. Gotta love it.
Or take a picture of every single large parking lot in El Paso filled with trash. And a bum on every corner.
Oh, and every time it rains it floods every street for a day. Been here 9 years and the same spots have still never ever been fixed.
Its just so beautiful, if you are into that whole 3rd world feel.

I respect your opinion because by looking at your IP address you are currently serving in the military, or in some form working for our government. If you are indeed serving in our armed forces, I'd like to say thank you for your service.

I do disagree with your take on El Paso though. I have never been there but have found the following very positive things about El Paso through my research.

*The city has an extremely low crime rate. The city must have something going right. And I mean really, really low crime rate.

*The desert vistas are phenomenal.

*Mild Winters.

*Hot summers I'm sure, but with the high altitude and low humidity, I'd bet that El Paso feels much cooler in the summer than Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, or San Antonio.

*Sunsets that are phenomenal

*Good people. Good people. Good people. I've found the people on this forum as friendly as my home state of Oklahoma, and brother that is saying a lot.

*Probably the best Mexican food in the entire United States.

El Paso, you look just fine to me.

[Earl Turner]

I thought it was equally important to allow outsiders to see alternate views of this city.
I really am a positive person, but Juarez looks just like any other town in the middle east to me.
I was born and raised in Tucson and a bit time in Phoenix, I cant compare them to El Paso fairly. To be totally fair, I didnt like the desert much in AZ either.
BUT, Phoenix and Tucson make the desert look pretty. They have exceptional clean up for their down town areas, hispanic heritage murals are placed all over the place, and even the Highway mediums have zero scaping with plenty of beautiful local flora.
About the friendlyness, I guess that just comes down to personal belief. I base mine on my experiences, and here in this town race and ethnicity have alot to do with the friendlyness factor. I can site tons of examples to you in a private message if you would like, but these are points of view for an alternate view.
Please take this as a constructive criticism of El Paso and not any type of emotional speech against the city. Thank you.

[Muhnay]

So when will we get back to posting pictures.. after all thats what this thread is for.. right?

Here is a picture of a road near my house..

El Paso TX on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

And then one of the mountains near Trans-Mountain road.

El Paso TX on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

And finally one on Fort Bliss, after a small helicopter accident.

BrokenChopper, Ft Bliss on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[6 FOOT 3]

I'm taking a guess but the road by your house in the photo is either Gateway North or South correct??

[Synopsis]

[6 FOOT 3]

Nice photos Synopsis !! Are you sure you live in Oklahoma and not El Paso ....lol.....

We forget that there are people back east or overseas who have never seen El Paso so it's nice to have these Photo threads. Again nice photos.