In California, you have warm weather offset by earthquakes and mud slides. Florida also has nice beaches with sun and warm weather, but again, offset by hurricanes. Boston has beautiful falls, but torrential amounts of snow and rain. Seattle has beautiful mountains and forests, but then don’t see blue sky a ton. It seems that every place in the country has some wonderful natural feature offset by something that could kill you.
Except Illinois, we only have stuff that will kill us: bitter cold, humid and scorching summers, not to mention high winds and tornadoes. The last week of weather here in Urbana Champaign has certainly been full of most of those, save the scorching heat. One day it was a -26 wind chill, the next day was a tornado warning, it rained torrentially for a day, and then today I awoke to a -15 windchill. I think that most weathermen in Chicago probably don’t very much fun trying to predict the weather.
OK, I don’t give Illinois enough credit. Yesterday I went to dinner off campus, and as we were driving along the cornfields, I must say the sunset I saw was quite beautiful. And contrary to popular belief, Illinois does have some beautiful places. Check out state parks such as Matthiessen State Park or Illinois Beach State Park. You won’t believe that you are in Illinois.
Do any others of you wonder why you live where you are?
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