smell of amarillo (Austin, San Diego, Vega: restaurants, office, parks)

[ms_tapestry]

Originally Posted by TexasBread

I'm in Amarillo now for an overnight stay. This town is FUNKY. Its city council should really do something to get the meat processing plant (cow pen) moved to somewhere less obvious. The smell is worse than anything I have ever smelled in my entire life. In fact, it's a strong combination of the worst smells you could ever possibly imagine concentrated into one giant stinkhole. I can't believe people actually live like this.

Apparently you ain't from around here...

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by TexasBread

I'm in Amarillo now for an overnight stay. This town is FUNKY. Its city council should really do something to get the meat processing plant (cow pen) moved to somewhere less obvious. The smell is worse than anything I have ever smelled in my entire life. In fact, it's a strong combination of the worst smells you could ever possibly imagine concentrated into one giant stinkhole. I can't believe people actually live like this.

What's Texas Bread?

[Bo]

Originally Posted by Houston3

What's Texas Bread?

A pun, is my guess.

[TX75007]

I initially read this as the "smell of an armadillo" and just about threw up! That is not a good smell for sure.

That smell in Amarillo is the smell of money.

Like it or not, 99.99% of the business of Amarillo is agriculture.

Originally Posted by cleanner

It stinks all the time and you will never get use to it. Join cleanamarillo.org because they are trying to clean it up.

Yeah, that is the spirit.

Farming built Amarillo. The schools, the roads, EVERYTHING.

But let's shut it down because we are new to the area and think we know better.

[karenew]

it doesn't smell EVERYDAY, some days are just more noticeable than others.

[catman]

I almost like the smell. Notice I said "almost". I think I could get used to it. I like to stop in Post, 38 miles SE of Lubbock, and it smells like mercaptan ("natural gas smell", the chemical added to natural gas to live it a smell for safety reasons). I don't mind it. I don't even mind the taste of the water too much, although I'd probably use bottled water for coffee and mixed drinks. (But I like Mineral Wells' mineral water!)

[PanTerra]

On one trip through Amarillo, I inadvertantly brought some home with me. Getting out of my car, the air smelled like a stable. Evidently whatever I ran over was still in my wheel well.

[Zachary.B]

I just came there from my uncle wedding and the whole week I was it didn't smell at all. I like the place to be honest.

[beasleb]

Originally Posted by TexasBread

I'm in Amarillo now for an overnight stay. This town is FUNKY. Its city council should really do something to get the meat processing plant (cow pen) moved to somewhere less obvious. The smell is worse than anything I have ever smelled in my entire life. In fact, it's a strong combination of the worst smells you could ever possibly imagine concentrated into one giant stinkhole. I can't believe people actually live like this.

Yes, on the 6th of January, it was a particularly smelly night. I've been here 20 years and from time to time, you can smell the stockyards from Hereford. It really depends on the wind direction. However, I have gotten used to it and it doesn't bother me. My parents were here last summer and they thought it was absolutely awful!

But, there is nothing that can be done.

[greg.jackson]

It is terrible. I remember times where I could not grill because the smell made me gag!