Flooded Out On The 4th of July

I drove through Ill. once to visit my son who lives outside of St Louis on the Ill. side of the border. I told him he lived in hell, jokingly. I was in the TC and from about 5 hours out the external temperature display was ticking up at what seemed a degree a minute. The skies where an ominous grey/black. The FM radio kept being interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast Network warning of possible tornados and large hail. Turns out all the action ,while close by, missed us. I stayed for maybe 3 days and experienced a really brutal heatwave. Im very heat tolerant but this was ridiculously hot. You were almost leaving footprints in the asphalt. Hence the living in hell joke. Due to the weather I didn't see the area at its best , but we did enjoy ourselves. Both my son and his wife, both NY transplants ,are very happy there. I wish I had more time to explore the area,it looks to be worth the time. But I had a date in South Dakota and had to move on.
Hope your flooding there ends soon. Water is very powerful and destructive when its not where you want it. We had Sandy a few years ago,not fun.