Since I have very few regular readers, if you stumble upon this blog, you would not know that I am a fan of The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/. But I am. I was watching their Weather Center live broadcast earlier tonight, and they showed video of a very large tornado that occurred last night, April 1, 2013, in Briscoe County, Texas. They reported that this tornado occurred "northeast of Lubbock, Texas" which is technically and geographically correct.
But that is like saying that Philadelphia, PA is southwest of New York City, or, from my home town perspective, that Greenfield, MA is west of Boston, MA. Well, these are all geographically correct descriptions, involving a distance of about 100 miles. But, it leads the reader to think close vs. intervening territory.
Granted, in West Texas, there are not a lot of intervening markers between Briscoe County and Lubbock, Texas. This area is largely rural, the towns in between are small, and probably unheard of outside of West Texas, and the two "marker" cities are Amarillo, northwest of Briscoe County, and Lubbock, southwest of Briscoe County. So, from the perspective of name recognition and national notice, I am glad to report that Briscoe County is northeast of Lubbock, Texas.
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