Living in Lubbock is like living in a baboon enclosure, though with marginally better sewer service.The instrument landing system problems that brought such frustration and consternation to Lubbock earlier this month really may have been the handiwork of one very cantankerous little boy thousands of miles away.
Or maybe not, since El Nino affects weather from here to Tierra del Fuego and this is the longest running ILS failure in the history of the system, it is just possible some other factor is in play.
El Nio (sic) apparently struck again, and an ice storm it hurled across the South Plains Jan. 28, which weighed down electric lines, may have been the trigger.
Initially, an arc in a traffic signal was blamed. I was concerned that Lubbock's orange cone lords (TXDoT and City Traffic Control) were not satisfied with strangling ground traffic with a mass of uncoordinated and glacially slow road destruction pork, and had decided to branch out into obstructing air traffic as well.