The Midwest

[lumineaux]

Is very very flat.  Exceptionally flat.  As flat as the flattest flat thing you can imagine.  For folks like me, who grew up in the rolling hills of the East Coast, the unremitting flatness is eerie.  

I am supposed to be doing something constructive about now.  Obviously, I am  not.

Comments

[fencerm2.livejournal.com]

Yes...the midwest is flat. I have driven across the vast flatness of Wisconsin traveling from Chicago to Minneapolis too many times to recall...and yup...flat.

I do prefer the NOT flatness of the East coast. Hence my relocation out here for and then after college :-)

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when we lived out in Iowa for 9 months, it was the flattest weirdest place I had ever seen. And the people thought we were slothful, unhardworking back easterners because we didn't get up at the crack of dawn ready to work and then go to sleep by 9. I love the East Coast.

[math5.livejournal.com]

Wow, it sounds even more flat than TX. Might be odd

[rlg.livejournal.com]

I have it on good authority that TX has hills in part of it, in fact they even have an area called "the hill country", so it sounds like yes, she may be in a flatter region.

Sounds scary.

[katnboots.livejournal.com]

O Wisconsin. I never drank there...

Well, Wisconsin's the site of my first memories, since I was there from 2 to 5 (the next move was to north Jersey). Lucky me. One of the images still in my head is one very eerie outdoors scene: the front yard disappearing into yellowness during a tornado.

The other big eeries might be these two:
In Oregon, driving up the grueling Santiam Pass for what seemed like an eternity to emerge in, uh, a black lunar landscape. 65 square miles of lava beds that I'd had no clue was there. Uh...

Somewhere in Utah. Somewhere outside of Salt Lake City. West? I don't recall. Many, many square miles of visibly cracked ground, near a salt or mud flat, I think. That place was very strange. Utah is strange.