which direction, north or south, are the tree bent on the North Texas plains?
I don’t remember seeing any trees out there, or at least not enough to remember them. But I would guess that they would be bent to the north. When I lived in Amarillo twenty something years ago for a couple of years, mostly I remember the freezing bitter cold winds out of the North in the winter vs the warm winds out of the Gulf in the summer. So since the trees being stripped of leaves and frozen or stiff from the cold in the winter would be less likely to bend. I remember a winter joke from when I lived there. Why is the wind out of the north so bad and so cold in the winter? Because there isn’t anything between Amarillo and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence in Kansas, and its down. As for winter in Amarillo, I would rather be here in Colorado when its 20 below zero than in Amarillo when its 20 above. In Colorado its a dry cold but when I was in Amarillo it was a most bitter cold and you just couldn’t put on enough clothes to stay warm.
