I recall that saying. 
In the version I heard and prefered it ends with “… and a couple of the wires is broke.”
Not “are broke.” “is broke.”
Hey, if Lubbock was just 3 degrees farther west, Regina would be an excellent northern windbreak!
Their loss.
Hank sums it up perfectly: “There’s plenty to see. Nothing to block your view.”
It helps to have a taste for abstract art.
I’ve done that drive. It felt like the horizon was going to pull my eyes out through the windshield.
As another SoCalian, I know exactly what you’re talking about.
My flatness reference is Wile E. Coyote after many of his attempts to catch the Roadrunner. A collection of youtube clips here: